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with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jakson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turp , his self-inflicted retaliation . | 1 |
got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaTing in its nearly 2 12-hou | 0 |
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal scirpt error . ' | 0 |
renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deelpy absorbing . | 1 |
what's really sad is to see tSwo academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearIing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . | 0 |
mr . paker has brilliantly updated his suorce and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . | 1 |
indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a mouie . | 0 |
finally , the french-produced " read my lips " is a omvie that understands characters must come first . | 1 |
here's not enough here to justify the almost two hours . | 0 |
the gifted crBdup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bd ubehavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . | 0 |
the material and the production itself are little more than rotuine . | 0 |
the roigin story is Swell told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that things fall apart . | 0 |
for the first time in several years , mr . allepn has surpassed himself with the magi he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . | 1 |
begins as a pomising meditation on one of americ's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . | 0 |
a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filSmaker's peirod pieces , is still very much worth seeing . | 1 |
the rules of attraction gets gs too drunk on the partWy favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . | 0 |
wiseman revelas the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . | 1 |
it's a very sincere work , but it would be bettea as a diary or documentary . | 0 |
woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers cpoy the " saving pirvate ryan " battle scenes before realizing steven spienberg got it right the first time ? | 0 |
[an] absorbing doumentary . | 1 |
exceptioanlly well acted by diane lane and richard gere . | 1 |
delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and tunred out by hollywood playas . | 0 |
at its besd ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subvresive silence can be . | 1 |
for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sRisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . | 1 |
a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adulP entertainment . | 0 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chisn , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nohwere . | 0 |
whenever you thnik you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . | 1 |
beautifully directed and conviningly acted . | 1 |
the gret pity is that those responsible didn't cut their lossei – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . | 0 |
a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn cicra 1958 . | 0 |
for very cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conceptoin of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jonse ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . | 1 |
paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannaPe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . | 0 |
[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to eind their wEy out of the fog and the ashes . | 0 |
though the violence is ar less sadistic than sual , the film is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . | 1 |
stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your tmie , and offer you praecisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered arojnd a plot as thin as it is repetitious . | 0 |
it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soRn . | 1 |
the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kAnd of special is how the film knows what's uniue and quirki about canadians . | 1 |
it's an awfully deriveative story . | 0 |
the fil is one of the year's best . | 1 |
a surprisigly funny movie . | 1 |
if the last mabn were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and anothre night of delightful hapnd shadows . | 0 |
humaG nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . | 0 |
[city] reminds us how realistically quanced a robert ed niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' proimsed ( or threatened ) for later this year . | 1 |
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and ptwer of the opegra reside primarily in the muic itself . | 1 |
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decideqly uncinematic . | 1 |
nothing more than a mediocre triCle . | 0 |
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i wolud go back and choose to skiu it . fortunately , you stlil have that option . | 0 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel likZ a film that strays past the two and a half mrk . | 1 |
a bodice-ripper for intelletcuals . | 1 |
moton deserves an oscar nomination . | 1 |
. . . a good , if not entirely fresh , lok at war . | 1 |
it's the kind of underdinspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
gere givzes a good performance in a film that doesn't merit it . | 0 |
it is scott's convincing portryal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 1 |
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklYings of intentional and unintentional comedy . | 0 |
the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , pthifer and cam'ron seal the deal . | 1 |
rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , alhmost generic . | 0 |
i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly consturcted sWenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise . | 1 |
birthday gril doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . | 1 |
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just sKems worse for the effort . | 0 |
feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performanes created for the sole uprpose of generating oscar talk . | 0 |
the al-french cast is marveilleux . | 1 |
an uneven but intriguing dramTa that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . | 1 |
wark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . | 1 |
the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatry of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and ivsion of the eand . | 1 |
give shapiro , oldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hoBr . | 0 |
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new ork middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiusly with their fears and foibles . | 1 |
time literally sops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool " clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . " | 0 |
it's bright , pristine style and old colors make it as mufh fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 1 |
as with so many merchandised-to-tye-max movies of this type , more time appears to have goe into recruiting the rihgt bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much lse . | 0 |
. . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless Smovie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . | 0 |
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13y-ear-old girl's life . | 1 |
a showcase for both the scenic plendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is ess successful on other levels . | 0 |
denver should not gt the first and last look at one of the most triumphacnt performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 1 |
reign of fire is hardly the most original fanatsy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that baTely maks it any less entertaining . | 1 |
it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epMic . | 0 |
from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as mFuch as it givs out . | 0 |
a compassionate , moving Iportrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . | 1 |
for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces chearacters who illuminaste mysteries of sex , duty and love . | 1 |
where janice leard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comDdic employment . | 1 |
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social emores and politics to tiresome jargon . | 0 |
there are many things that solgd acting can do for a movie , but crafing something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . | 0 |
with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than cahracter -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab rLport . | 0 |
despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the charatcters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . | 0 |
astonising isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plin crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special typge of badness that is deuces wild . | 0 |
the film is so busy making reference to other filLms and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or hymor of its own . | 0 |
takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish paywright , poeft and drinker . | 0 |
though it pretends to expose the life of mgale hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . | 0 |
the master of disguise is awfful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warned . | 0 |
it's a cool event for the whole faily . maybe not a classic , but a movie the ids will want to see over and over again . | 1 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hanrd yank whenever he Awants you to feel something . | 0 |
only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and pt pillowcasFes over their heads for 87 minutes . | 0 |
in the director's cut , the film is not only a lov son to the mzovies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps gettign weirder . | 1 |
thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . xtakes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter gaenda . | 1 |
not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your apeptite whetted . | 1 |
kosminsky . . . pts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . | 1 |
bears about as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered womeun as spider-man does to the experieCces of most teenagers . | 0 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker helm overcome the problematic script . | 1 |
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