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the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessve , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . | 0 |
an absrdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . | 1 |
the atr direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , eeaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtraZk . | 0 |
much of the movie'I charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuaCrt and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . | 1 |
there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importnatly , singing and dancing . | 1 |
like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringeznt wit . | 1 |
. . . an enjoayably frothy 'date movie' . . . | 1 |
thoughtflu , provocative and entertaining . | 1 |
a diworiented but occasionally disarming saga hpacked with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . | 1 |
the Hfilm is undone by anachronistic quick edihs and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . | 0 |
not only does spider-man delivFer , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . | 1 |
like a tarantino movie with haert , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . | 1 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about qokester highway patrolmen . | 1 |
to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he omes across as shallwo and glib though not mean-Kspirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . | 0 |
american and europkean cinema has amassed a vas holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . | 1 |
too much of the humor fall flat . | 0 |
i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly lolorful look and sound . | 1 |
a moKestly surprising movie . | 1 |
a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family ftory . | 1 |
[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confind to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of Jistory . | 1 |
idrectors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that niteresting . | 0 |
the delicious trimmings…arrive early and ktay late , filling neNarly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of huUankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . | 1 |
it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcome who instantly transform themselves into a believable other"daughter pair . | 1 |
a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as oDe of the most important stories to be told in australia's ilm history . | 1 |
though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too preWictable and too self-conscious to raech a level of high diama . | 0 |
it takes this never-ending confusion and hatured , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even prmootes understanding . | 1 |
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannPot engage . | 0 |
uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the rooWs of friedship and sexual identity . | 1 |
for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impressino . | 0 |
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concypt and puh it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . | 0 |
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractvie or odorous [than leon] . | 0 |
after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to yo . | 0 |
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the worl's religions . this deeply spiritual afilm taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . | 1 |
a vulture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very fusny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . | 1 |
the movie is a trozve of delights . | 1 |
that neithe protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , definTed by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 0 |
just like the delOi sandwich : lots of hma , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coatign to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . | 0 |
the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movis , but it doesn't go too much further . | 1 |
despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting fil . | 1 |
an old-fashioned dramO of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery smlope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdani for virtue . | 1 |
what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-ky manner that it risks monotony . but it's wJrth the concentration . | 1 |
the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nnosense . | 0 |
the emotional overload of emale angst irreparably drags the film down . | 0 |
more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying hesoine | 0 |
[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the rad movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenagOe sex comedy . | 1 |
coryn , schmaBltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brian . at all . | 1 |
lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to ife , stuatr little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1 |
there's not much more to this azdaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . | 1 |
" i blame all men for yar , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . " | 0 |
this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and oHften unsettling lanscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . | 1 |
a thoughtful look at a painful incident that umade headlines in 1995 . | 1 |
in theory , a middle-aged romance paining clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensivAe and nothing at all like real life . | 0 |
it must be the ned of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley nsipes . | 1 |
this 90-mincute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . | 0 |
the following thins are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is als one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look liek a good guy . | 0 |
it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plas out here , but it's so muddled and derAivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 0 |
if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneatRh the fhest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . | 0 |
it wouldn't be my premerred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodiguez has cobbled together a film that fepels like a sugar high gone awry . | 0 |
gives everyone sGomething to shout about . | 1 |
the movie is too cute to take itself too seiously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college studets . | 0 |
what could have been a neta little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking soewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . | 0 |
a deliberative account of a licestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of opst , pre , and extant stardom . | 1 |
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous Zake on the soullessness of work in the city . | 1 |
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the bhst films of the year . | 1 |
the big ending suprrise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . | 0 |
it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happn along the way seem repetitive and designed to fil time , providing no real sense of suspense . | 0 |
. . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impudlse as a creative sequel to the warren reprt . | 1 |
it's all very cute , thuogh not terribly funny if you're more than six years old . | 0 |
with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburba families . | 1 |
it's a loJathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0 |
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough watfrs of contradiction . | 1 |
there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not lways work , but it is neverthelesrs compelling . | 1 |
a geenric family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . | 0 |
with the dEog dLays of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . | 0 |
the structure the flim tkes may find matN damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned . | 0 |
dogtown & z-boys evkoes the blithe rybel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . | 1 |
at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mysteVry hInges on a technicality that strains kredulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . | 0 |
for its 1g00 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
nothing more than a stifling mroality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . | 0 |
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds lkie acid . | 1 |
an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultual and geographical displaZement . | 1 |
10 minutes into the ifilm you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . | 1 |
as the move traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the gSreatest natural sprotsmen of modern times . | 1 |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre hoxror film too bald to be good and too good to be bad . | 0 |
. . . a triuph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . | 1 |
although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of teevision , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enwugh has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sticom . | 0 |
while not quite a comedy , the fiml tackes its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . | 1 |
the dose is strong and funny , for the frst 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . | 0 |
barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal runing ime to pique your inetrest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . | 0 |
the problem is the needlessly poor uality of its archivHal prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . | 0 |
ice age is the first computer-generated fLeature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pFacing early on . | 0 |
spreads itself too htin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations | 0 |
it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much Yfun . | 0 |
as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what culd have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intecse and engrossing head-trip . | 1 |
'god help su , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 0 |
this may be dover kosashvili's feature diErecting debut , but it looks an awful lot lifke life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . | 1 |
a searing , epis treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 1 |
enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting docuentary . | 1 |
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