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0	Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged, as if filmed directly from a television monitor, while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché.
1	The fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on Büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable, irreversible flow of history.
0	Derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone.
1	I like it.
1	Birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in, 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters.
0	'God help us, but Capra and Cooper are rolling over in their graves.'
1	Poignant Japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak.
1	A little uneven to be the cat's meow, but it's good enough to be the purr.
1	(There's) quite a bit of heart, as you would expect from the directors of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
1	It's a hoot watching The Rock chomp on jumbo ants, pull an arrow out of his back, and leap unscathed through raging fire!
1	Giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun.
1	The film is insightful about Kissinger's background and history.
0	It makes me feel weird / Thinking about all the bad things in the world / Like puppies with broken legs / And butterflies that die / And movies starring pop queens
1	A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.
1	Beautiful, cold, oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly, a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images.
1	This isn't a stand up and cheer flick; it's a sit down and ponder affair.
1	This story still seems timely and important.
1	A sloppy, amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise.
1	Jae-eun Jeong's Take Care of My Cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant, expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the South Korean cinema.
1	The film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of Juliette Binoche as Sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.
1	Like The English Patient and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hours is one of those reputedly "unfilmable" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right.
1	The footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with Suge Knight are just two of the elements that will grab you.
1	(F)rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative, the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels.
0	It's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction.
0	It is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished.
1	Quiet, adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year... a true study, a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers.
0	Although God Is Great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film.
0	You cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed.
0	Feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen.
1	Definitely funny stuff, but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with.'
0	...Pray doesn't have a passion for the material.
0	plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure Hollywood.
1	The increasingly diverse French director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking, sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history.
0	The film is a confusing melange of tones and styles, one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama.
0	Lush and beautifully photographed (somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book), but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered.
0	Instead of using George and Lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks, Lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on George's haplessness and Lucy's personality tics.
0	It recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera.
1	One of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the French film industry in years.
0	The Piano Teacher, like its title character, is repellantly out of control.
0	The basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy.
1	It is OK for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus, if the lines work, the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged.
0	Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work.
0	This romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in.
1	Visually breathtaking, viscerally exciting, and dramatically moving, it's the very definition of epic adventure.
0	Full Frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters.
0	The movie isn't painfully bad, something to be 'fully experienced'; it's just tediously bad, something to be fully forgotten.
1	If you've the patience, there are great rewards here.
0	Devolves into the derivative, leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects.
1	It's the type of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days: realistic, urgent, and not sugarcoated in the least.
0	Remember back when thrillers actually thrilled?
0	Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis's wall of kitsch hard going.
0	The acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the Wal-Mart checkout line.
1	Writer/director Alexander Payne (Election)and his co-writer Jim Taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look American angst in the eye and end up laughing.
1	If you can push on through the slow spots, you'll be rewarded with some fine acting.
1	Chris Columbus' sequel is faster, livelier and a good deal funnier than his original.
1	This is the stuff that Disney movies are made of.
1	What's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn.
0	It's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in Slackers or their antics amusing, let alone funny.
1	The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers.
0	It's makes a better travelogue than movie.
1	It's a masterpiece.
0	Been there, done that, liked it much better the first time around - when it was called The Professional.
0	I have to admit I walked out of Runteldat.
0	A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls.
1	– but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies I've had in a while.
1	The unexplored story opportunities of "Punch-Drunk Love" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director Anderson.
0	There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema: Unbreakable and Signs.
1	If cinema had been around to capture the chaos of France in the 1790's, one imagines the result would look like something like this.
1	This quiet, introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking.
0	What little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting, macabre sets, and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else.
1	What "Empire" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart.
1	The usual movie rah-rah, pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director Michael Apted and writer Tom Stoppard.
0	This starts off with a 1950's Doris Day feel and it gets very ugly, very fast.
1	Standing by Yourself is haunting...(It's) what punk rock music used to be, and what the video medium could use more of: spirit, perception, conviction.
0	A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud, violent and mindless.
1	All in all, a great party.
1	A thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale, standard, connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world.
0	(Seems) even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels.
1	Credit director Ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic.
0	It's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip, winking social commentary.
0	It's just that it's so not-at-all-good.
0	(L)ame and unnecessary.
1	While centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family, this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the Yiddish theater, both in America and Israel.
0	I'm not sure which will take longer to heal: the welt on Johnny Knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.
0	...the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning.
1	As Hannibal would say, yes, 'It's like having an old friend for dinner'.
1	It's bright, pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime.
0	Imagine Kevin Smith, the blasphemous bad boy of suburban Jersey, if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor.
1	See Scratch for the history, see Scratch for the music, see Scratch for a lesson in scratching, but, most of all, see it for the passion.
1	Always destined to be measured against Anthony Asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.
0	Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde.
1	Hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.
1	Chicago offers much colorful eye candy, including the spectacle of Gere in his dancing shoes, hoofing and crooning with the best of them.
1	The artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from Japan, the characters move with grace and panache.
1	The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites.
0	Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks.
0	Bad and baffling from the get-go.
0	The obnoxious special effects, the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant, so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy, dopey old Hanna-Barbera charm.
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	Harmless fun.

0

Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged, as if filmed directly from a television monitor, while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché.

1

The fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on Büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable, irreversible flow of history.

0

Derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone.

1

I like it.

1

Birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in, 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters.

0

'God help us, but Capra and Cooper are rolling over in their graves.'

1

Poignant Japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak.

1

A little uneven to be the cat's meow, but it's good enough to be the purr.

1

(There's) quite a bit of heart, as you would expect from the directors of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

1

It's a hoot watching The Rock chomp on jumbo ants, pull an arrow out of his back, and leap unscathed through raging fire!

1

Giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun.

1

The film is insightful about Kissinger's background and history.

0

It makes me feel weird / Thinking about all the bad things in the world / Like puppies with broken legs / And butterflies that die / And movies starring pop queens

1

A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.

1

Beautiful, cold, oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly, a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images.

1

This isn't a stand up and cheer flick; it's a sit down and ponder affair.

1

This story still seems timely and important.

1

A sloppy, amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise.

1

Jae-eun Jeong's Take Care of My Cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant, expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the South Korean cinema.

1

The film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of Juliette Binoche as Sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.

1

Like The English Patient and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hours is one of those reputedly "unfilmable" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right.

1

The footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with Suge Knight are just two of the elements that will grab you.

1

(F)rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative, the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels.

0

It's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction.

0

It is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished.

1

Quiet, adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year... a true study, a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers.

0

Although God Is Great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film.

0

You cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed.

0

Feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen.

1

Definitely funny stuff, but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with.'

0

...Pray doesn't have a passion for the material.

0

plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure Hollywood.

1

The increasingly diverse French director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking, sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history.

0

The film is a confusing melange of tones and styles, one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama.

0

Lush and beautifully photographed (somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book), but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered.

0

Instead of using George and Lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks, Lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on George's haplessness and Lucy's personality tics.

0

It recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera.

1

One of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the French film industry in years.

0

The Piano Teacher, like its title character, is repellantly out of control.

0

The basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy.

1

It is OK for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus, if the lines work, the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged.

0

Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work.

0

This romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in.

1

Visually breathtaking, viscerally exciting, and dramatically moving, it's the very definition of epic adventure.

0

Full Frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters.

0

The movie isn't painfully bad, something to be 'fully experienced'; it's just tediously bad, something to be fully forgotten.

1

If you've the patience, there are great rewards here.

0

Devolves into the derivative, leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects.

1

It's the type of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days: realistic, urgent, and not sugarcoated in the least.

0

Remember back when thrillers actually thrilled?

0

Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis's wall of kitsch hard going.

0

The acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the Wal-Mart checkout line.

1

Writer/director Alexander Payne (Election)and his co-writer Jim Taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look American angst in the eye and end up laughing.

1

If you can push on through the slow spots, you'll be rewarded with some fine acting.

1

Chris Columbus' sequel is faster, livelier and a good deal funnier than his original.

1

This is the stuff that Disney movies are made of.

1

What's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn.

0

It's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in Slackers or their antics amusing, let alone funny.

1

The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers.

0

It's makes a better travelogue than movie.

1

It's a masterpiece.

0

Been there, done that, liked it much better the first time around - when it was called The Professional.

0

I have to admit I walked out of Runteldat.

0

A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls.

1

– but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies I've had in a while.

1

The unexplored story opportunities of "Punch-Drunk Love" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director Anderson.

0

There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema: Unbreakable and Signs.

1

If cinema had been around to capture the chaos of France in the 1790's, one imagines the result would look like something like this.

1

This quiet, introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking.

0

What little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting, macabre sets, and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else.

1

What "Empire" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart.

1

The usual movie rah-rah, pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director Michael Apted and writer Tom Stoppard.

0

This starts off with a 1950's Doris Day feel and it gets very ugly, very fast.

1

Standing by Yourself is haunting...(It's) what punk rock music used to be, and what the video medium could use more of: spirit, perception, conviction.

0

A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud, violent and mindless.

1

All in all, a great party.

1

A thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale, standard, connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world.

0

(Seems) even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels.

1

Credit director Ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic.

0

It's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip, winking social commentary.

0

It's just that it's so not-at-all-good.

0

(L)ame and unnecessary.

1

While centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family, this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the Yiddish theater, both in America and Israel.

0

I'm not sure which will take longer to heal: the welt on Johnny Knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.

0

...the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning.

1

As Hannibal would say, yes, 'It's like having an old friend for dinner'.

1

It's bright, pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime.

0

Imagine Kevin Smith, the blasphemous bad boy of suburban Jersey, if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor.

1

See Scratch for the history, see Scratch for the music, see Scratch for a lesson in scratching, but, most of all, see it for the passion.

1

Always destined to be measured against Anthony Asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.

0

Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde.

1

Hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.

1

Chicago offers much colorful eye candy, including the spectacle of Gere in his dancing shoes, hoofing and crooning with the best of them.

1

The artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from Japan, the characters move with grace and panache.

1

The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites.

0

Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks.

0

Bad and baffling from the get-go.

0

The obnoxious special effects, the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant, so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy, dopey old Hanna-Barbera charm.

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

Harmless fun.