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1 | Two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending. |
1 | and your reward will be a thoughtful, emotional movie experience. |
0 | Obvious. |
1 | "Birthday Girl" is an actor's movie first and foremost. |
1 | The little girls understand, and McCracken knows that's all that matters. |
0 | The pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs. |
1 | I liked it because it was so endlessly, grotesquely, inventive. |
1 | That, in itself, is extraordinary. |
1 | Yes. |
1 | K-19: The Widowmaker is a great yarn. |
1 | And educational! |
1 | An undeniably moving film to experience, and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation. |
1 | Confessions isn't always coherent, but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching, so hold the gong. |
0 | The film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show: hastily written, underrehearsed, arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo. |
1 | Sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative. |
1 | Crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half. |
0 | Strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose, and in that oh-so-important category, The Four Feathers comes up short. |
1 | The best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism, and Bertrand Tavernier's oft-brilliant Safe Conduct ("Laissez-passer") wears its heart on its sleeve. |
0 | I have returned from the beyond to warn you: this movie is 90 minutes long, and life is too short. |
1 | '... Despite lagging near the finish line, the movie runs a good race, one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches.' |
1 | Witty and often surprising, a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy. |
0 | They're the unnamed, easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid. |
1 | Watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy. |
0 | Spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy. |
0 | Director Jay Russell stomps in hobnail boots over Natalie Babbitt's gentle, endearing 1975 children's novel. |
1 | Colorful, energetic and sweetly whimsical...the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor. |
0 | ... a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman. |
1 | A small movie with a big heart. |
1 | Maggie G. makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen. |
0 | Most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement. |
1 | '(The Cockettes) provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable.' |
1 | Most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments; "Frailty" leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home. |
1 | The difference between Cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited. |
0 | This remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since John and Bo Derek made the ridiculous Bolero. |
0 | (A) poorly executed comedy. |
1 | Holland lets things peter out midway, but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals. |
1 | ...Rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle. |
1 | Lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy. |
1 | Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while. |
1 | Tends to pile too many "serious issues" on its plate at times, yet remains fairly light, always entertaining, and smartly written. |
1 | An inventive, absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist. |
1 | (Russell) makes good B movies (The Mask, The Blob), and The Scorpion King more than ably meets those standards. |
0 | What little grace (Rifkin's) tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics. |
1 | The last scenes of the film are anguished, bitter and truthful. |
0 | However sincere it may be, The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence. |
0 | The whole thing feels like a ruse, a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or, worse yet, nonexistent -- ideas. |
0 | Supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment. |
0 | No laughs. |
1 | But the actors make this worth a peek. |
1 | A gem of a movie. |
0 | The whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad. |
0 | It's exactly the kind of movie Toback's detractors always accuse him of making. |
1 | Mr. Clooney, Mr. Kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster. |
0 | It would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in Dragonfly, yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction. |
0 | Both deserve better. |
1 | Between them, De Niro and Murphy make Showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season. |
1 | Upsetting and thought-provoking, the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them. |
0 | Slap me, I saw this movie. |
1 | Visually, 'Santa Clause 2' is wondrously creative. |
1 | A coming-of-age tale from New Zealand whose boozy, languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board. |
1 | 'it's better to go in knowing full well what's going to happen, but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists. |
1 | A portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake. |
0 | Hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired. |
0 | Bogdanich is unashamedly pro-Serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side. |
0 | Like a pack of dynamite sticks, built for controversy. |
1 | Take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture, and he'll be your slave for a year. |
1 | Miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning, and his imagination so vivid, that the only possible complaint you could have about Spirited Away is that there is no rest period, no timeout. |
1 | Stage director Sam Mendes showcases Tom Hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge. |
1 | Vereté has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs. |
0 | Ponderous, plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film. |
0 | Gets the look and the period trappings right, but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés. |
1 | Director Roger Kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity. |
1 | A bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception, which, while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces, is still very much worth seeing. |
0 | Gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid...a curiously constricted epic. |
0 | Then again, in a better movie, you might not have noticed. |
1 | A fairly enjoyable mixture of Longest Yard ... and the 1999 Guy Ritchie caper Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. |
0 | The re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well. |
1 | If a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb, then They works spectacularly well...A shiver-inducing, nerve-rattling ride. |
0 | Oedekerk mugs mercilessly, and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between. |
0 | Often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films. |
1 | Spielberg's first real masterpiece, it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still, 20 years later. |
0 | ...unlike (Scorsese's Mean Streets), Ash Wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot. |
1 | You may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject. |
1 | Slow and ponderous, but Rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and Christian love in the face of political corruption. |
0 | Sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoir ... is a rather toothless take on a hard young life. |
1 | Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love, history, memory, resistance and artistic transcendence. |
0 | under-rehearsed and lifeless |
1 | The film offers an intriguing what-if premise. |
0 | This 10th film in the series looks and feels tired. |
1 | You needn't be steeped in '50s sociology, pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of Haynes' work. |
1 | Rarely have I seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart. |
1 | A witty, low-key romantic comedy. |
1 | What enlivens this film, beyond the astute direction of Cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors, is a note of defiance over social dictates. |
1 | A delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity, Mostly Martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach. |
1 | It's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles, but Notorious C.H.O. still feels like a promising work-in-progress. |
0 | A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns, expensive cars, lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing. |
1 | A strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes, but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two |
0 | Even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage. |
1 | With 'Bowling for Columbine,' Michael Moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear. |
1 | I liked it just enough. |
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