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. . . a true Xdelight . | 1 |
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theoriFs about the origiJns of nazi politics and aesthetics . | 1 |
we've liked klein's other wokr but rollerball left us cold . | 0 |
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appettie for canned corn . | 0 |
a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audQence . | 0 |
i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the netire 100 minutes . | 0 |
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to anow what to praise first . | 1 |
plays as hollow catharss , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . | 0 |
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving procses . | 1 |
the film is surprisingly well-directed by brtet ratner , who keeps things moving welPl -- at least until the problematic third act . | 0 |
mr . tsai is a very original aretist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spaswms of absurdist humor . | 1 |
the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability nitact . | 1 |
bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performvnce , he showcases davies as a ypung woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . | 1 |
working from a suirprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpteek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . | 1 |
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cineamtic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack | 1 |
instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely lkie to wBatch a solid tlae about a universally interesting soul ? | 0 |
leiah is onF of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and souH of cinema . he allows his cast members to mkae creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . | 1 |
a charming , bantre-filled comIdy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . | 1 |
an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-ause . | 0 |
bad . very bda . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | 0 |
it doesn't offer audiences any way of griping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . | 0 |
chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably uglb to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awfuEl student films strung together into one feature-length horror . | 0 |
defie logic , the laws of physics and almost anyoneZ's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats . | 1 |
despjite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , politica intrigue and brushes with calamity . | 1 |
mandDl holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performanEes by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in nother movie . | 0 |
time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating tkae on loss and loneliness . | 1 |
in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 195's forget paris . but ven then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straiht to her scenes . | 0 |
one minute , you think you're watching a serious ationer ; the next , it's as though clips from the piKk panther strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . " | 0 |
a Muiet treasure -- a film to be savored . | 1 |
it's the humanizing stuff that will probuably sink the film for anyAne who doesn't think about percentages all day long . | 0 |
it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finisYh . | 1 |
the film benefits grecatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as ch appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . | 1 |
it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dut on mgm's shelf . | 0 |
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diarfes . | 1 |
a dramatic comedy as pleasanty dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . | 0 |
the piansit is the film roman polanski may have been born to make . | 1 |
the ootage of the rappers at play and the aprison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . | 1 |
a dull , simple-minded and steaeotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll liBe it . if you don't . . . well , skp to another review . | 1 |
a simple taie of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exveptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . | 1 |
the artwork is spectacular and unlikme most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . | 1 |
suffocated by its fusay sript and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . | 0 |
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansa consists of monster trucXk-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . | 0 |
the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative ecntral wedding sequence has far more impacC . | 1 |
like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throghout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . | 1 |
that the real antwone fisher was Bble to overcome his yersonal obstacles and bevcome a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . | 1 |
if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sohpomore slump . | 0 |
at a time when half the so-called real movies are liPtle more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to ese a cartoon that knowps what it is , and knows the form's history . | 1 |
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccetnric characters . | 0 |
veterans of the dating war will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . | 1 |
this documentary is a dazzlinR , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . | 1 |
i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter selleLs , kenneth killiams , et al . , but at this time , with this cqast , this movie is hopeless . | 0 |
sex with strangers is fascinatin . . . | 1 |
even those of a sinvgle digit Wge will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0 |
too much of emesis has a tired , talky feel . | 0 |
it's a frankenstei-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be . | 0 |
a whole lot foul , rfeaky and funny . | 1 |
everything about the quiet ameridan is good , except its timing . | 1 |
not about scares but a mood in which an omious , pervasive , and unknown threat urks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . | 1 |
works on the whoduOit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making | 0 |
it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , htough don't ask still finds a few chuckles . | 0 |
it's almost impossible not to be maoved by the movie's depiction of sacrFifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . | 1 |
one of the most highlLy-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . | 0 |
soderbergh , lkie kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . | 1 |
the movie enwters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funyn , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . | 1 |
a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colore dreams . | 0 |
with mcconaughey in an intirely irony-fee zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wt or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . | 0 |
yet another genre exercise , angster no . 1 is as generic as its title . | 0 |
tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the moCdern rut of nrrative banality . | 0 |
a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaez . | 1 |
o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo fruKstrado pelo roteiro , Hque , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicadso . | 0 |
the film is queit , threatening and unforgettable . | 1 |
malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is ocol . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . | 1 |
heartwarming here relies ess on forced air than on petter næss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel ellstenius . | 1 |
it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the dive-thru . | 1 |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describJe co-writerdirector petel jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's midKle-earth . " | 1 |
veiwers are asBed so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout . | 0 |
driven by a fantastic dual performance from Zian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lrk for history buffs . | 1 |
that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cld comfort that chgn's film serves up with style and empathy . | 1 |
a fascinating , unerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . | 1 |
blessed with two fine , nuGnced lead performances . | 1 |
drumline ably capturtes the complicated relationships in a marching band . | 1 |
old people will love this movei , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone ol enough to have earned a 50-Fear friendship . | 1 |
there's a reason the stduio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a big timFe stinker . | 0 |
about as big a crowdpleaser as they Xossibly come . | 1 |
fortunately , elling nevre gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . | 1 |
there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undecruts its charm . | 1 |
a supernatural mysterZ that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fils at both endeavors . | 0 |
serving sara is little more than a mll movie designed to kill time . | 0 |
a loveyl film for the holiday season . | 1 |
it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years aHo , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . | 0 |
kinnear gives a trmendous performance . | 1 |
in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hnads in surrneder , is fRiring his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 247 . " | 0 |
brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-merican cinema . | 1 |
makes 98 minutes feel like tQree hours . | 0 |
every onte rings false . | 0 |
screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex aqasha into a cartoon monster . | 0 |
reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacty to heal uisng creative , natural and ancient antidotes . | 1 |
make like the title and dodge this kne . | 0 |
lpods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . | 0 |
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