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a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films .

about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time .

there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract .

a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment .

nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows .

the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time .

wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars

weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes .

with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids .

baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within .

enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse .

vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores .

there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish .

like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all .

a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause .

the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either .

who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .

wow , so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ?

the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny .

makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands .

the bard as black comedy -- willie would have loved it .

the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia .

an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views .

in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant .

confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong .

full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing .

jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging .

it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . '

the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong .

the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer .

i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .

there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance .

some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors .

it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can .

its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) .

by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best .

somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane .

when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble .

blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period .

even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules .

a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness .

the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list .

resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche .

a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes .

ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture !

an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale .

the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace .

most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds .

mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . .

the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously .

the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters .

director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person .

'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '

an extremely unpleasant film .

hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .

it drowns in sap .

malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure .

the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency .

cassavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon .

it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman .

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

jagger the actor is someone you want to see again .

it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw .

two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy .

horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists .

diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused .

mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline .

the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 .

a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men .

the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness .

cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .

delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity .

toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away .

it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject .

this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it .

the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors .

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

it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period .

the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart .

just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing .

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

a french film with a more down-home flavor .

thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all .

plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo .

with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s .

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

tailored to entertain !

it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction .

fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique .

the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 guys .

lightweight but appealing .

make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess .

the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed .

yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo .

the problem isn't that the movie hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball .

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

that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar .

ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls .

there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman .

mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor .