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1 | Astonishingly skillful and moving...it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one. |
1 | feeling to it, but like the 1920's, the trip there is a great deal of fun. |
0 | Unsurprisingly, the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers, instead of serious athletes. |
1 | Eight Legged Freaks is clever and funny, is amused by its special effects, and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer. |
1 | The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly. |
0 | Purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons. |
0 | Tends to plod. |
0 | Pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle. |
1 | Indeed, the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost Dadaist proportions. |
1 | The one-liners are snappy, the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded. |
0 | Stupid, infantile, redundant, sloppy, over-the-top, and amateurish. |
1 | The film grows on you. |
1 | Though its story is only surface deep, the visuals and enveloping sounds of Blue Crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see. |
1 | This Chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit, as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare. |
1 | First-time writer-director Dylan Kidd also has a good ear for dialogue, and the characters sound like real people. |
1 | A whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking Christian-themed fun. |
0 | This odd, distant Portuguese import more or less borrows from Bad Lieutenant and Les Vampires, and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film. |
0 | During The Tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time, there isn't one true 'Chan moment'. |
0 | It's mildly sentimental, unabashedly consumerist ... studiously inoffensive and completely disposable. |
0 | Plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas. |
0 | ...pays tribute to heroes the way Julia Roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism. |
1 | Features Fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity. |
0 | Before long, you're desperate for the evening to end. |
0 | Watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say, when Carol Kane appears on the screen. |
1 | "Red Dragon" never cuts corners. |
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 don't come off. |
1 | Although shot with little style, Skins is heartfelt and achingly real. |
0 | It looks good, but it is essentially empty. |
1 | Young Everlyn Sampi, as the courageous Molly Craig, simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film. |
1 | A knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite Son of the Bride. |
0 | Sure, I hated myself in the morning. |
0 | But ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr. De Niro. |
0 | The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles: wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one (and no one). |
1 | It's a great performance and a reminder of Dickens' grandeur. |
0 | Not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were – I doubt it would be all that interesting. |
0 | A movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events. |
1 | Real Women may have many agendas, but it also will win you over, in a big way. |
1 | What I saw, I enjoyed. |
0 | lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional, reserved kind of filmmaking. |
0 | It appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making. |
1 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true. |
0 | Spider-Man is about growing strange hairs, getting a more mature body, and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units. |
1 | At its best, this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure, an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture. |
1 | There are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip. |
0 | I'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence: This erotic cannibal movie is boring. |
0 | Maybe you'll be lucky, and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back. |
1 | With Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, however, Robert Rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking. |
0 | ...unbearably lame. |
0 | Certainly not a good movie, but it wasn't horrible either. |
0 | Where the film falters is in its tone. |
0 | This film biggest problem? |
1 | This is a movie that is what it is: a pleasant distraction, a Friday night diversion, an excuse to eat popcorn. |
1 | The gags are often a stitch. |
1 | The complex, politically charged tapestry of contemporary Chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we Westerners have seen before. |
0 | The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into something both ugly and mindless. |
1 | (Shyamalan) continues to cut a swathe through mainstream Hollywood, while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision. |
1 | As averse as I usually am to feel-good, follow-your-dream Hollywood fantasies, this one got to me. |
1 | You'll know a star when you see one. |
0 | Sorority Boys, which is as bad at it is cruel, takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it. |
1 | In between the icy stunts, the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do.' |
1 | This gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family. |
0 | Horrible. |
0 | Grating and tedious. |
0 | At three hours and with very little story or character development, there is plenty of room for editing, and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother, more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue. |
1 | Better effects, better acting and a hilarious Kenneth Branagh. |
0 | It's too interested in jerking off in all its Byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience. |
0 | None of this so-called satire has any sting to it, as if Woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally, to some extent, warmed up to him. |
1 | A keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters. |
0 | A prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell. |
1 | An elegant and sly deadpan comedy. |
0 | Neither as scary-funny as Tremors nor demented-funny as Starship Troopers, the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price. |
1 | The delicious trimmings...arrive early and stay late, filling nearly every minute...with a lighthearted glow, some impudent snickers, and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a Scrooge or two. |
0 | The movie is a dud. |
1 | Unfolds in a low-key, organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow. |
0 | Doesn't do more than expand a TV show to movie length. |
1 | One of the best movies of the year. |
1 | By applying definition to both sides of the man, the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject. |
0 | The movie turns out to be (Assayas') homage to the Gallic 'tradition of quality,' in all its fusty squareness. |
0 | Once the downward spiral comes to pass, Auto Focus bears out as your typical junkie opera... |
0 | 'Butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of Jez Butterworth, who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach. |
0 | Cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes. |
1 | Berry's saucy, full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick, making "Die Another Day" one of the most entertaining Bonds in years |
1 | Despite the film's bizarre developments, Hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity. |
1 | If you love reading and/or poetry, then by all means check it out. |
1 | Driven by a fantastic dual performance from Ian Holm...the film is funny, insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs. |
1 | Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby does Dickens as it should be done cinematically. |
0 | Diane Lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing. |
1 | Simply put, "Far From Heaven" is a masterpiece. |
1 | Shot in rich, shadowy black-and-white, Devils chronicles, with increasingly amused irony, the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives. |
1 | McGrath has deftly trimmed Dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera, the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness. |
0 | Anyone who suffers through this film deserves, at the very least, a big box of consolation candy. |
1 | A worthwhile documentary, whether you're into rap or not, even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll. |
0 | The original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece! |
1 | It's a fun adventure movie for kids (of all ages) that like adventure. |
0 | One sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot. |
0 | Limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very, very slowly. |
0 | No amount of nostalgia for Carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that Carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it. |
1 | Consistently clever and suspenseful. |
0 | This is an ungainly movie, ill-fitting, with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be. |
1 | A real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office, emergency room, hospital bed or insurance company office. |
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