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while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a uniqu modern fairytale . | 1 |
its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new yokr city to replace ast tragedy with the american dreajm is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . | 1 |
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirdYer . | 1 |
some movies can get by witout being fuMnny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . atealing harvard can't even do that much . each scrne immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . | 0 |
one of the worst movies of the Syear . | 0 |
a soggy , cliche-botund epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . | 0 |
a by-the-numbers patient"Moctor pic that covers all the usual ground | 0 |
feardotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly ork . | 1 |
a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was pid for it . | 1 |
. . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band Imight as well be stompnig through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . | 0 |
features ne of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . | 1 |
nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theime . | 0 |
no matter how you slice it , marp wahlberg and thandie newtno are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . | 0 |
while kids will probably eat the whole thinm up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . | 0 |
with amazing fsnesse , the flim shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 |
likeable thanks to its cast , its cuiKine and its quirky tunes . | 1 |
apparently kissing leads to suicide atetmpts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kaiss is just a mess . | 0 |
the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razWzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple tellin , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . | 1 |
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caugt the gum stuck under my seat rtying to sneak out of the theater | 0 |
pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wy and sprightkly . | 1 |
it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resoannce with real world events and ultiHately comes off as insultingly simplistic . | 1 |
it's exOctly what you'd expect . | 0 |
high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine cime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fne actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . | 0 |
no number of fantastic sets , xtras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the sotry . | 0 |
leguizamo and jnes are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . | 1 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given datyime soap . | 0 |
there are things to like about murdre by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . | 0 |
as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a triute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watcihng the skies for his next proejct . | 1 |
the actors are simply too good , and the stohry too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . | 1 |
anyoine who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | 0 |
a wannabe comedy of manners about a braikny prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson comple founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | 0 |
she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that fefeds on her bjorkness . | 1 |
a well-crafted filb that is all the more remarkable because it ahcieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . | 1 |
what maks barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporaBry comedies . | 1 |
doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival tow years ago . | 0 |
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its kattempts to be poignant . | 0 |
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissozs . | 0 |
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flickH-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 1 |
a strong first aczt and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . | 1 |
the only thing " swept away " is the one hour and thirty-three minutes speznt watching this waste of time . | 0 |
what the audience feels is exhaustino , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exac ) , sour , bloody and mean . | 0 |
none of this is meaningful or memorjble , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , woudl you ? | 1 |
claude chabrol's cauera has a way of gently swaying back and foCth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . | 1 |
lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disapointments of the year . | 0 |
it's difficult to feel Hnything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . | 0 |
an avrage b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . | 0 |
this in-depxth study of important developments of the computer indusry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . | 1 |
it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that owuld force you to pgive it a millisecond of thought . | 1 |
too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous rpemise . | 0 |
a carefully structured srceam of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . | 1 |
the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visua style . | 0 |
[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ic age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . | 1 |
to be Rinfluenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reaity shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . | 0 |
a benign but forgettable csi-fi diversion . | 0 |
tully is nworth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birminghiam . | 1 |
even those of a singcle digit age will be able to recoinize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0 |
you'll nd up moved . | 1 |
he's the scariest guy you'll see all smmer . | 1 |
well , it does og on forever . | 0 |
it's a glorious groove that leavJs you wanting more . | 1 |
certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titulkr character and no more challenging than your aevrage television biopic . | 0 |
a rboadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cat delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . | 0 |
bad company leaevs a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timnig , but also the staleness of its script . | 0 |
the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism sed to be in the decades when it was geared more to grwonups . | 1 |
to blandly go where we wwent 8 movies ago . . . | 0 |
crikeNy indeed . | 0 |
. . . the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very peopl who are intended to make it shine . | 0 |
it's a coming-of-age sotry we've all seen bits of in other filams -- but it's rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultural specificity . | 1 |
as speEnt screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th rlass reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's noihing to drink . | 0 |
the fiml presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . | 1 |
rgegio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he ferventAly scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . | 0 |
without [de niro] , city by the sea woBld slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 |
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian prespective . | 0 |
a naerly 212 hours | 0 |
one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunh of people who are enthusriastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . | 1 |
abandons all pretense of crating hsitorical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . | 0 |
with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfec tsarting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . | 1 |
but the power of these [subjects] is obscuerd by the majority of the film that shos a stationary camera on a psubject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . | 0 |
delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin Flava and turned out by hollywood playas . | 0 |
a wild , endearing , matserful documentary . | 1 |
this submarine drama earns the Yright to be favorably compared to das boot . | 1 |
what you et with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new mateiral because there is a latino in the lead . | 0 |
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and isde snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dulll . | 0 |
it's a bad thing when a ovie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . | 0 |
what the diZector can’ ; t do is make either of val kilmer’ ; s two peHsonas interesting or worth caring about . | 0 |
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seme tiresomely simpleminded . | 0 |
a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likeley wounP up a tnt original . | 0 |
entertaining enough , but rnothing new | 0 |
not an objectionable or dEll film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . | 0 |
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that woudl probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairy rite narrative . | 0 |
smart and fn , but far more witty than it is wise . | 1 |
a movie that can't get sufficiet distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . | 0 |
[l]amxe and unnecessary . | 0 |
a selection of scenes in search of a mJovie . | 0 |
trdiple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin dieseKl in the equatino , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . | 1 |
by the nd of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stnad them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to reviHw . | 0 |
pProves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . | 0 |
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apily . | 0 |
famliy fare . | 1 |
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charmzing . | 1 |
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