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0	All mood and no movie.
1	Will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest, most deceptively amusing comedies of the year.
0	A half-assed film.
1	It's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter, but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible.
1	The most ingenious film comedy since Being John Malkovich.
1	The cast is phenomenal, especially the women.
1	Inventive, fun, intoxicatingly sexy, violent, self-indulgent and maddening.
1	Much of it comes from the brave, uninhibited performances by its lead actors.
0	A chiller resolutely without chills.
0	The first hour is tedious though Ford and Neeson capably hold our interest, but its just not a thrilling movie.
1	And it is.
1	Even when it drags, we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking
0	Imperfect?
0	This mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy.
0	A baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside Danish cows falls flat, and if you're going to alter the Bard's ending, you'd better have a good alternative.
0	There's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits.
1	No, it's not as single-minded as John Carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.
1	Beating the Austin Powers films at their own game, this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness.
0	Viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for Holm's performance, the film would be a total washout.
0	There's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes, plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme.
0	-spy action flick with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu never comes together.
0	There's already been too many of these films...
1	We want the funk - and this movie's got it.
1	(A) thoughtful, visually graceful work.
0	Shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling.
1	Like The Rugrats movies, The Wild Thornberrys Movie doesn't offer much more than the series, but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome.
0	A waterlogged version of 'Fatal Attraction' for the teeny-bopper set...a sad, soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads.
0	The film starts promisingly, but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work.
1	The script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar.
1	Kudos to the most enchanting film of the year.
1	The engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion.
1	By its modest, straight-ahead standards, Undisputed scores a direct hit.
1	I'm guessing the director is a magician.
1	A dashing and absorbing outing with one of France's most inventive directors.
0	It irritates and saddens me that Martin Lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of Bubba Ho-Tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.
0	That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel.
0	None of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest.
1	When all is said and done, she loves them to pieces -- and so, I trust, will you.
0	Ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to American art house audiences, but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness.
0	Kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults, provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people.
0	It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves, and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling.
1	Wonder, hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along, especially if it begins with the name of Star Wars
0	While the performances are often engaging, this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour TV documentary.
0	Haneke's script (from Elfriede Jelinek's novel) is contrived, unmotivated, and psychologically unpersuasive, with an inconclusive ending.
0	There is only so much baked cardboard I need to chew.
0	The movie is loaded with good intentions, but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the Holocaust escape story, Minac drains his movie of all individuality.
1	Tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters, its sensitive acting, its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer Hilary Birmingham.
1	Filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power.
0	...a movie that, quite simply, shouldn't have been made.
1	The Importance of Being Earnest, so thick with wit it plays like a reading from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
0	Five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before.
1	Director Alfonso Cuaron gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of French New Wave films.
1	... manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun.
0	Guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets.
0	Wewannour money back, actually.
1	More than anything else, Kissing Jessica Stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre, which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake Sleepless in Seattle again and again.
1	When cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy Giannini, Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game.
1	The sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame.
0	The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing.
1	... digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations.
1	Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep.
1	It's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys, regardless of their ages.
0	An empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal.
1	(Scherfig) has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll.
1	It may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while, but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality
1	A delightful entree in the tradition of food movies.
0	(Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai are) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among American action-adventure buffs, but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers.
1	Conceptually brilliant...Plays like a living-room War Of The Worlds, gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown.
0	This feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head
1	(Danny Huston gives) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.
1	In addition to Hoffman's powerful acting clinic, this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt, or will feel someday.
1	This isn't exactly profound cinema, but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny.
1	Hailed as a clever exercise in neo-Hitchcockianism, this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately Chabrolian.
0	It leers, offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject.
0	A pleasant and engaging enough sit, but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole.
1	Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society ... might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.
1	Yakusho, as always, is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with Shimizu is very believable.
1	works, it's thanks to Huston's revelatory performance.
0	Ararat feels like a book report
0	The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of (Godard's) vision, any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice.
1	Tully is in many ways the perfect festival film: a calm, self-assured portrait of small town regret, love, duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience.
0	It's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5.
1	A surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of Hollywood's comic-book adaptations.
0	My advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack.
1	Audacious-impossible yet compelling...
1	A quasi-documentary by French filmmaker Karim Dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of Cuban music.
1	Family fare.
0	The movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation, and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates.
1	One of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise.
1	Even if you're an agnostic carnivore, you can enjoy much of Jonah simply, and gratefully, as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced Monty Pythonesque flavor.
1	One of the best of a growing strain of daring films ... that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect.
0	Set in a 1986 Harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in New York.
0	In the spirit of the season, I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.
1	Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection, made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones.
0	They crush each other under cars, throw each other out windows, electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness.
1	In addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family, forgiveness and love in a new way -- Lilo & Stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded.
1	Perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing,' but it is.
0	As predictable as the outcome of a Globetrotters-Generals game, Juwanna Mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre, and a personal low for everyone involved.
1	Almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what William James once called 'the gift of tears.'
1	A fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor, sensuality, and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys.

0

All mood and no movie.

1

Will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest, most deceptively amusing comedies of the year.

0

A half-assed film.

1

It's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter, but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible.

1

The most ingenious film comedy since Being John Malkovich.

1

The cast is phenomenal, especially the women.

1

Inventive, fun, intoxicatingly sexy, violent, self-indulgent and maddening.

1

Much of it comes from the brave, uninhibited performances by its lead actors.

0

A chiller resolutely without chills.

0

The first hour is tedious though Ford and Neeson capably hold our interest, but its just not a thrilling movie.

1

And it is.

1

Even when it drags, we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking

0

Imperfect?

0

This mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy.

0

A baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside Danish cows falls flat, and if you're going to alter the Bard's ending, you'd better have a good alternative.

0

There's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits.

1

No, it's not as single-minded as John Carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.

1

Beating the Austin Powers films at their own game, this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness.

0

Viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for Holm's performance, the film would be a total washout.

0

There's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes, plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme.

0

-spy action flick with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu never comes together.

0

There's already been too many of these films...

1

We want the funk - and this movie's got it.

1

(A) thoughtful, visually graceful work.

0

Shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling.

1

Like The Rugrats movies, The Wild Thornberrys Movie doesn't offer much more than the series, but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome.

0

A waterlogged version of 'Fatal Attraction' for the teeny-bopper set...a sad, soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads.

0

The film starts promisingly, but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work.

1

The script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar.

1

Kudos to the most enchanting film of the year.

1

The engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion.

1

By its modest, straight-ahead standards, Undisputed scores a direct hit.

1

I'm guessing the director is a magician.

1

A dashing and absorbing outing with one of France's most inventive directors.

0

It irritates and saddens me that Martin Lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of Bubba Ho-Tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.

0

That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel.

0

None of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest.

1

When all is said and done, she loves them to pieces -- and so, I trust, will you.

0

Ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to American art house audiences, but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness.

0

Kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults, provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people.

0

It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves, and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling.

1

Wonder, hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along, especially if it begins with the name of Star Wars

0

While the performances are often engaging, this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour TV documentary.

0

Haneke's script (from Elfriede Jelinek's novel) is contrived, unmotivated, and psychologically unpersuasive, with an inconclusive ending.

0

There is only so much baked cardboard I need to chew.

0

The movie is loaded with good intentions, but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the Holocaust escape story, Minac drains his movie of all individuality.

1

Tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters, its sensitive acting, its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer Hilary Birmingham.

1

Filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power.

0

...a movie that, quite simply, shouldn't have been made.

1

The Importance of Being Earnest, so thick with wit it plays like a reading from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

0

Five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before.

1

Director Alfonso Cuaron gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of French New Wave films.

1

... manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun.

0

Guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets.

0

Wewannour money back, actually.

1

More than anything else, Kissing Jessica Stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre, which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake Sleepless in Seattle again and again.

1

When cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy Giannini, Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game.

1

The sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame.

0

The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing.

1

... digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations.

1

Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep.

1

It's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys, regardless of their ages.

0

An empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal.

1

(Scherfig) has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll.

1

It may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while, but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality

1

A delightful entree in the tradition of food movies.

0

(Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai are) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among American action-adventure buffs, but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers.

1

Conceptually brilliant...Plays like a living-room War Of The Worlds, gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown.

0

This feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head

1

(Danny Huston gives) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.

1

In addition to Hoffman's powerful acting clinic, this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt, or will feel someday.

1

This isn't exactly profound cinema, but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny.

1

Hailed as a clever exercise in neo-Hitchcockianism, this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately Chabrolian.

0

It leers, offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject.

0

A pleasant and engaging enough sit, but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole.

1

Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society ... might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.

1

Yakusho, as always, is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with Shimizu is very believable.

1

works, it's thanks to Huston's revelatory performance.

0

Ararat feels like a book report

0

The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of (Godard's) vision, any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice.

1

Tully is in many ways the perfect festival film: a calm, self-assured portrait of small town regret, love, duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience.

0

It's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5.

1

A surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of Hollywood's comic-book adaptations.

0

My advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack.

1

Audacious-impossible yet compelling...

1

A quasi-documentary by French filmmaker Karim Dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of Cuban music.

1

Family fare.

0

The movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation, and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates.

1

One of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise.

1

Even if you're an agnostic carnivore, you can enjoy much of Jonah simply, and gratefully, as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced Monty Pythonesque flavor.

1

One of the best of a growing strain of daring films ... that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect.

0

Set in a 1986 Harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in New York.

0

In the spirit of the season, I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.

1

Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection, made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones.

0

They crush each other under cars, throw each other out windows, electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness.

1

In addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family, forgiveness and love in a new way -- Lilo & Stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded.

1

Perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing,' but it is.

0

As predictable as the outcome of a Globetrotters-Generals game, Juwanna Mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre, and a personal low for everyone involved.

1

Almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what William James once called 'the gift of tears.'

1

A fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor, sensuality, and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys.