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one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 1 |
merchant has n't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . | 0 |
`` it 's all about the image . `` | 1 |
merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women 's expense . | 0 |
star wars is back in a major way . | 1 |
by the end , you just do n't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please ! | 0 |
stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond 's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 't is . | 1 |
hip-hop has a history , and it 's a metaphor for this love story . | 1 |
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . | 0 |
because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . | 1 |
the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . | 0 |
a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . | 1 |
[ seagal 's ] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie . | 0 |
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams . | 1 |
if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it 's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . | 1 |
k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . | 1 |
it 's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . | 1 |
it 's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects . | 1 |
you could say that it 's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people would n't , but one thing you could n't say is that alias betty is predictable . | 1 |
it 's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . | 0 |
the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . | 0 |
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 |
efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . | 1 |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . | 1 |
over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . | 1 |
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative . | 1 |
more of a career curio than a major work . | 0 |
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 0 |
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . | 0 |
an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . | 0 |
an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . and second , what 's with all the shooting ? | 0 |
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! | 0 |
stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara does n't distinguish itself from the herd . | 0 |
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it 's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . | 0 |
el peso de un lM-mquido incoloro , el peso del lM-mquido vital , del amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . | 1 |
quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
the overall effect is less like a children 's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . | 0 |
me without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . | 1 |
more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . | 1 |
a mostly tired retread of several other mob tales . | 0 |
naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . | 0 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 0 |
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . | 1 |
there 's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . | 0 |
for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it 's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . | 1 |
this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . | 0 |
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . | 1 |
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson 's magnolia and david lynch 's mulholland dr . | 1 |
were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich 's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . | 1 |
for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [ sci-fi ] rehash . | 0 |
that the chuck norris `` grenade gag `` occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 0 |
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who 's ever had family trauma . | 1 |
for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . | 1 |
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 |
a sometimes tedious film . | 0 |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . | 0 |
i 'm not saying that ice age does n't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there 's not enough substance in the story to actually give them life . | 0 |
will no doubt delight plympton 's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . | 0 |
not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . | 1 |
the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . | 1 |
what an embarrassment . | 0 |
thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . | 1 |
[ p ] artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0 |
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . | 1 |
this is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is . | 1 |
film ca n't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . | 1 |
if you 've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . | 0 |
the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we 're touched by the film 's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . | 1 |
terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr . | 1 |
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . | 1 |
it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . | 1 |
i 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . | 1 |
an ambitious movie that , like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off . | 1 |
the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . | 0 |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . | 1 |
qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . | 1 |
a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . | 0 |
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts ' and their 'guests . ' | 1 |
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it 's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it 's not quite the genre-busting film it 's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . | 1 |
not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . | 0 |
it 's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . | 0 |
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . | 0 |
it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others . | 0 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola 's inadequate performance . | 0 |
it wo n't bust your gut -- and it 's not intended to -- it 's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 |
like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it 's never too late to learn . | 1 |
one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . | 1 |
the film jolts the laughs from the audience -- as if by cattle prod . | 1 |
as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . | 0 |
triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude . when you 've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . | 1 |
using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . | 1 |
a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . | 1 |
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just is n't much to laugh at . | 0 |
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky 's diaries . | 1 |
it 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . | 0 |
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