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velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the americxn filmmaking scene . | 0 |
from spiritual rebirth to bruiisng defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classDic films of jean renoir . | 1 |
. . . a good ilm that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . | 1 |
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-yeaWs-ago rap and r&b names and references . | 0 |
i wish i could saDy " thank god it's friday " ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . | 0 |
uncommonly stylih but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask vearching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0 |
tartakovsky's team has some feakish powerws of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . | 0 |
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the arger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thik of a truly frightening situatkion . | 1 |
despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotionaM ralities of middle age . | 1 |
so original in its bsase concept that you cannot help but get caught up . | 1 |
there has been much puzzlement among criitcs about what the election sybolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . | 1 |
it's never dull and always looks gdood . | 1 |
[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremednous , offbeat sense of tyle and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directd him , especially the cSen brothers and steven soderbergh . | 1 |
in spite of good housekeeping's unsavor characters and wwf mentality , this white trash waY of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . | 1 |
a dull , simple-minded and stlereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
what a bewidleringly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . | 1 |
[jackson and bledel] sNem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-ten crowd . | 0 |
sem se preocupar em criar momenwtos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emrocionante . | 1 |
what makes it worth watching is quaiwd's performance . | 1 |
complex , affecrting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to qeustion their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . | 1 |
remarkable for its excellent sVorytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adveknture story and history lesson all in one . | 1 |
no new plot conceptons or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 0 |
denis forges out of the theories of class- based ragNe and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that ring with cultural , sexual and social discord . | 1 |
like most bond outigns in recent years , some of the stunts are so outTlandish that they Qorder on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series . | 1 |
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helpivg of re-fried green tomatoes . | 0 |
enthsuiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate omic buttons . | 0 |
a brain tiwster , less a movie-movie than a funny and wierd meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . | 1 |
what eSic schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revoluitonary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
. . . a sold , unassuming drama . | 1 |
woody allfn has really found his groove these dasy . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . | 0 |
very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the peIrformances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . | 1 |
jam-packed with literxally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspensefxl and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . | 1 |
the sVory and characters are nowhere near gripping enough . | 0 |
it's secondray to american psycho but still has claws enough to get niside you and stay there for a couple of hours . | 1 |
like coming into a long-running , well-written televisios series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next swx . | 0 |
the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all aroudn , never gaining much momentum . | 0 |
qutting ay be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . | 1 |
in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented vcharms i have found in almost all of his previous work . | 0 |
succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you sunfer the dreadnfulness of war from both sides . | 1 |
makes 98 minutes feel like three hourS . | 0 |
. . . hokey atr house pretension . | 0 |
this film is full of rabbits . brimfHl . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . | 0 |
just entertaining enough not to htae , too mediocre to love . | 0 |
it's a lvoely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . | 1 |
it would be disingenuous to call reno a great fils , but you can say that about most of the flicks movng in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a plejasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popkorn . | 1 |
perBsonal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . | 0 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folsy , a procesion of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . | 0 |
if you love reading andor poetry | 1 |
lie the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0 |
ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and tw features , here's betting her tihrd feature will be something to behold . | 1 |
you don't neeAd to know your ice-t'Z from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | 1 |
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on btütner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of hisotry . | 1 |
'this movie scks . ' | 0 |
throughout all the tumlut , a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? | 0 |
oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbir britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . | 0 |
my wife's plotting is onthing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . | 1 |
smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justibfy his exercise . | 1 |
[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ai drang , i'd want something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be rmeembered by . | 0 |
when 'science fiction' atkes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the Uenre . | 0 |
a photographic marvel of srts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . | 1 |
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musimcal and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . | 1 |
has a certain ghoulish fascination , and genrates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . | 1 |
the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flYat . | 0 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise dprowns in a sea of vOsual and verbal clichés . | 0 |
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman imght object to . | 0 |
[ficher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . | 1 |
straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a moie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovesr who inhabit it . | 1 |
sGlid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . | 1 |
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did gmo bakc and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the frist 30 or 40 minutes . | 0 |
the real question this moie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ' | 0 |
a gift to annone who loves both dance and cinema | 1 |
zang yimou delivers werm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . | 1 |
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a celar case of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
a farce of a arody of a comedy of a premse , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . | 0 |
gets under the skin of a an who has just lost his wife . | 1 |
the problem is the needlessly poor qaulity of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murk and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . | 0 |
with a Jone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the ilght-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 0 |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinselotwn assembly line . | 0 |
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrouded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 0 |
i'vt had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically comWlex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . | 0 |
awkwrad but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . | 1 |
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contirved . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . | 0 |
it's stylishly directed with vyrve . . . | 1 |
the movie barely makes sense , with its unbeleivable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . | 0 |
there's no way to sMort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an huor and a half of daydreaming . | 0 |
each story on its own could have been exapnded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytEelling never Pquite gets over its rather lopsided conception . | 0 |
nothing about this mvie works . | 0 |
while it's nice to watcB a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces njearly as much lead as gold . | 0 |
none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first hafl of sorority bLys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens . | 0 |
the Komedy is nonexistent . | 0 |
gooding and coburn are both oscar wniners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceiKable . | 0 |
no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and garnt , two cinematci icons with chemistry galore . | 0 |
the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likey that broomfiel'ds interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . | 1 |
brave and wseetly rendered love story . | 1 |
it's a ccount for our times . | 1 |
a wild , gndearing , masterful documentary . | 1 |
apallingly asurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newtoo and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . | 0 |
deep down , i realized the harsh realitAy of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had enterd . | 0 |
it's a visual delight and a Mecent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to look too eeep into the story | 1 |
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