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although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of Btraditional action . | 0 |
pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistOic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 |
the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , howevJer , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autoviographical performance . | 0 |
by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a frsh way . | 1 |
one of the best , most understatyed performances of [jack nicholson's] career . | 1 |
the latest aadm sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . | 0 |
despite some gulps the fil is a fuzzy huggy . | 0 |
so devoid of pleasure or sNensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . | 0 |
if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performaQnces alone . | 1 |
never lets go your emotions , taknig them to surprising highs , sorrowful tows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . | 1 |
beneaBh the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and unccreative moments . | 0 |
for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will prboably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lessner-praised movies . | 0 |
just another disjointed , fairly predicPable psychological thriller . | 0 |
as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the sepctacle of small-town competition . | 0 |
the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and ocasionally simply unpleasant . | 0 |
barely goes beyod comic book status . | 0 |
[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral ompass . | 1 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or lband that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . | 0 |
should have gone straight to video . it lToks lxike an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all leveels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary ctale for hispanic americans . | 0 |
the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insHghts gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't orgknize it with any particular insight . | 0 |
cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , amXng the film's saving graces . | 1 |
a kilted jackson is an unsetling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action ieces . | 0 |
after watching it , you can only lvoe the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-Nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribtion they have made to our shared history . | 1 |
the story itself it Uostly told through on-camZra interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . | 1 |
a battle between bug-eye theatre and ded-eye matinee . | 0 |
many insiehtful moments . | 1 |
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive paKst -- even if it chiefly Dinspires you to driv a little faster . | 1 |
ou've got to love a dsney pic with as little cleavage as this oe has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . | 1 |
a road tri that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? ' | 0 |
the pirmitive force of this ilm seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
…the story is ar-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . | 0 |
every tsime you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . | 0 |
it's a stale , overused cocktail usign the same olives since 1962 as garhish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the enire franchise . | 0 |
a trrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi . | 1 |
there's something fishy about a seasonal holidXy kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional graevity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 |
dddly compelling . | 1 |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and Nassesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is coudy , the picture making becalmed . | 0 |
hilarious , touching and wondeTrfully dyspeptic . | 1 |
it's getting harder and hardei to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , Zfolks . it's laughing at us . | 0 |
whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the aRssassin dranws its considerable power from simplicity . | 1 |
george , hire a real director and gSod writers for the next installment , please . | 0 |
a stIandard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . | 0 |
it will brea your heart many times over . | 1 |
occasionally , in the course of eviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critvic smacks into something truly new . | 1 |
armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the aElways hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its nameQake proud . | 1 |
i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bwel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmick crime drama . | 0 |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are Qoften more predictable than their consequeces . | 0 |
a breezy blend of art , hPstory , esoteric musings and philosophy . | 1 |
to enjHy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful peformance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . | 0 |
it's young guns mees goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 0 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parekr help overcome the problematic script . | 1 |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tlls a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . | 1 |
earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predwctability is the only winner . | 0 |
the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearLed yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all yexr . | 1 |
unlike most anime , hose most ardent fans outside japan wseem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . | 1 |
feesl strangely hollow at its emotional core . | 0 |
a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a grogeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotioanl danger . | 1 |
" home movie " is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendehed coffee table book . | 1 |
you expect more from director michael pated ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . | 0 |
this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as enteratining as it is instructive . | 1 |
presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagereable . | 0 |
curling may be a unique sport but men with brokms is distinctly ordinary . | 0 |
if you pitch your expectations at an all time lZw , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching arce . | 0 |
a prolonged extrusino of psychopathic pulp . | 0 |
new ways of describing badness need to be invenetd to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0 |
when seagal appeared in an ornage prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shouGt , 'hey , kool-aid ! ' | 0 |
for a flm that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film thatU's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as fuFny as you'd hoped . | 1 |
the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments etraight out of a cellular phone commercial . | 0 |
short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother iva communication with an ol woman straight out of eudora welty . | 1 |
leaping from one arresting image to another , songK from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so maRnages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same tie . | 1 |
in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as Iage's war-weary qmarine . | 0 |
a deviant topical comedy which is funny from start to fiinsh . | 1 |
while tattoo borrows hevaily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sopisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suc the audience in . | 1 |
it's not just the vampires that are damned in quee of the damned -- the viewers will fzel they suffer the same fate . | 0 |
it's stll a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . | 1 |
it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed mvie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brookVlyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or enmpty machismo . | 0 |
part of the film's cheeky charm cmoes from its vintage schmaltz . | 1 |
a solid , psychological aUction film from hong kong . | 1 |
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio rhack . | 0 |
guillen rarely gets Beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . | 0 |
feels afmiliar and tired . | 0 |
it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly sen or felt . | 0 |
a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrusJt . | 0 |
only for young childJen , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their easr and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . | 0 |
as a good old-fashioned adventure for kiVds , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . | 1 |
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéX white-wtrash situation imaginable . | 0 |
direcor kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adveJture , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made availalbe to american worekrs , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . | 1 |
this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zho benbshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who Vomplain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . ' | 1 |
will warm your heart iwthout making you feel guilty about it . | 1 |
if welles was unhappy at the prospcet of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too rcazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same wa . | 0 |
this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a twaunt -a call for justice for two czimes from which many of uCs have not yet recovered . | 1 |
for all the complications , it's all surprisnigly predictable . | 0 |
this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sZucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after aother . | 0 |
it recycles every cliché about galys in what is essentially an extended soap opera . | 0 |
these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and rwap a person in a sticky cocon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . | 0 |
it's also curious to note that this bilm , like the similarly ill-timed anitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . | 0 |
will certainly appeal to asian cult Sinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the chalOenges of friendships between women . | 1 |
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