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0 | This is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you, at its cluelessness, at its idiocy, at its utterly misplaced earnestness. |
0 | Its appeal will probably limited to LDS Church members and undemanding armchair tourists. |
0 | The latest Adam Sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year. |
1 | The determination of Pinochet's victims to seek justice, and their often heartbreaking testimony, spoken directly into director Patricio Guzman's camera, pack a powerful emotional wallop. |
1 | A beautiful, timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy, betrayal, forgiveness and murder. |
0 | Hill looks to be going through the motions, beginning with the pale script. |
1 | Who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this, the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy, directed by Godfrey Reggio, with music by Philip Glass? |
0 | Disjointed parody. |
0 | Typical animé, with cheapo animation (like Saturday morning TV in the '60s), a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and Japanese names. |
0 | You can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff. |
0 | The plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish, and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience, but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times |
1 | Twenty years later, E.T. is still a cinematic touchstone. |
1 | Angela Gheorghiu as famous prima donna Floria Tosca, Roberto Alagna as her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and Ruggero as the villainous, lecherous police chief Scarpia, all sing beautifully and act adequately. |
1 | Gondry's direction is adequate ... but what gives Human Nature its unique feel is Kaufman's script. |
0 | Though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs, its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before. |
1 | One of the most exciting action films to come out of China in recent years. |
0 | Glizty but formulaic and silly...Cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel. |
0 | Makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases. |
0 | (A) soulless, stupid sequel ... |
1 | With a large cast representing a broad cross-section, Tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "His Girl Friday," maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes. |
1 | unpretentious, charming, quirky, original |
0 | Humorless, self-conscious art drivel, made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention. |
1 | Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings. |
1 | If you haven't seen the film lately, you may be surprised at the variety of tones in Spielberg's work. |
1 | Any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a look. |
0 | It's a thin notion, repetitively stretched out to feature length, awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects, droning house music and flat, flat dialogue. |
0 | A dull, dumb and derivative horror film. |
0 | How about surprising us by trying something new? |
1 | An energetic, violent movie with a momentum that never lets up. |
0 | Even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor, Sorority Boys is a bowser. |
0 | An affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration, Miss Congeniality. |
1 | It really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small, sweet 'Evelyn.' |
1 | Caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely. |
0 | I found it slow, predictable and not very amusing. |
1 | See it. |
1 | As played by Ryan Gosling, Danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction. |
0 | The movie spends more time with Schneider than with newcomer McAdams, even though her performance is more interesting (and funnier) than his. |
1 | Oh, and more entertaining, too. |
1 | The genius of the work speaks volumes, offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates. |
1 | Austin Powers for the most part is extremely funny, the first part making up for any flaws that come later. |
1 | A worthy addition to the cinematic canon, which, at last count, numbered 52 different versions. |
1 | If you like blood, guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though... you will likely enjoy this monster. |
0 | It is a popcorn film, not a must-own, or even a must-see. |
0 | How inept is Serving Sara? |
1 | A thoughtful, reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture, with its own rules regarding love and family, governance and hierarchy. |
1 | (Caine) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch, bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film. |
1 | A vibrant whirlwind of love, family and all that goes with it, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth, colour and cringe. |
0 | The film, like Jimmy's routines, could use a few good laughs. |
1 | Like a skillful fisher, the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely. |
1 | But once the falcon arrives in the skies above Manhattan, the adventure is on red alert. |
1 | As Antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community, the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure, daytime-drama sort of fashion. |
0 | This isn't a new idea. |
0 | On a cutting room floor somewhere lies...footage that might have made No Such Thing a trenchant, ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire. |
1 | That Haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace. |
1 | Just bring on the Battle Bots, please! |
0 | But first, you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort |
1 | For all the dolorous trim, Secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout, notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop Freudianism. |
1 | A bright, inventive, thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy. |
1 | Just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer. |
0 | Those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one. |
0 | A rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel. |
1 | Greg Kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior. |
0 | This action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage. |
1 | Metaphors abound, but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story. |
0 | The movie is the equivalent of French hip-hop, which also seems to play on a 10-year delay. |
1 | A well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone. |
1 | The film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama: What would you have done to survive? |
0 | Both shrill and soporific, and because everything is repeated five or six times, it can seem tiresomely simpleminded. |
1 | A rich tale of our times, very well told with an appropriate minimum of means. |
0 | The action here is unusually tame, the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest, and the plot offers few surprises. |
1 | The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes. |
0 | There's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling, but Brooms isn't it. |
0 | I suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject. |
1 | A very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be. |
1 | Changing Lanes is an anomaly for a Hollywood movie; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say. |
1 | ...flat-out amusing, sometimes endearing and often fabulous, with a solid cast, noteworthy characters, delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags. |
1 | Passionate, irrational, long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula, Helga figures prominently in this movie, and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats. |
1 | Whenever you think you've figured out Late Marriage, it throws you for a loop. |
1 | The story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing, and Mr. Day-Lewis roars with leonine power. |
0 | One problem with the movie, directed by Joel Schumacher, is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time. |
0 | Barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest, your imagination, your empathy or anything, really, save your disgust and your indifference. |
0 | The story the movie tells is of Brian De Palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career. |
1 | Miyazaki has created such a vibrant, colorful world, it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images. |
0 | It's not a bad premise, just a bad movie. |
1 | When one hears Harry Shearer is going to make his debut as a film director, one would hope for the best |
0 | If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright, then Blood Work is for you. |
1 | Great dragons! |
1 | The powerful success of Read My Lips with such provocative material shows why, after only three films, director/co-writer Jacques Audiard, though little known in this country, belongs in the very top rank of French filmmakers. |
0 | Most fish stories are a little peculiar, but this is one that should be thrown back in the river. |
0 | A word of advice to the makers of The Singles Ward: Celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs. |
1 | Kinnear and Dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers. |
0 | A pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere, and just seems worse for the effort. |
1 | Pratfalls aside, Barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other. |
0 | "One look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid?" |
1 | Kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie. |
0 | An unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it. |
0 | David Spade as Citizen Kane? |
1 | Director Tom Dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut Shanghai Noon, but Showtime's uninspired send-up of TV cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks. |
0 | Director George Hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries, but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad, and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place. |
1 | Like Kubrick, Soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way. |
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