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1 | It's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge. |
1 | After an uncertain start, Murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with Bullock's memorable first interrogation of Gosling. |
1 | Although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants, Dogtown and Z-Boys has a compelling story to tell. |
1 | ...a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of Mamet. |
0 | On top of a foundering performance, (Madonna's) denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag. |
1 | On the surface a silly comedy, Scotland, PA would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play. |
1 | Mostly works because of the universal themes, earnest performances ... and excellent use of music by India's popular Gulzar and Jagjit Singh. |
0 | About the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time. |
1 | But the performances of Pacino, Williams, and Swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through. |
0 | A boring, pretentious muddle that uses a sensational, real-life 19th-Century crime as a metaphor for -- well, I'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop. |
1 | Far From Heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat, but more than that, it's a work of enthralling drama. |
1 | Blessed with a searing lead performance by Ryan Gosling (Murder by Numbers), the movie is powerful and provocative. |
0 | The film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility. |
0 | It almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us. |
0 | A low-rent retread of the Alien pictures. |
0 | It merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them. |
1 | There's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of Monsoon Wedding in Late Marriage -- and that's part of what makes Dover Kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent. |
0 | The entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another. |
1 | A fascinating examination of the joyous, turbulent self-discovery made by a proper, middle-aged woman. |
1 | Has an unmistakable, easy joie de vivre. |
1 | It's a rare window on an artistic collaboration. |
0 | Report card: Doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement. |
0 | Too intensely focused on the travails of being Hal Hartley to function as pastiche, No Such Thing is Hartley's least accessible screed yet. |
1 | A backstage must-see for true fans of comedy. |
0 | It's got the brawn, but not the brains. |
0 | Lacks dramatic punch and depth. |
1 | It may be a no-brainer, but at least it's a funny no-brainer. |
0 | Like the excruciating End of Days, Collateral Damage presents Schwarzenegger as a tragic figure, but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions. |
1 | A great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
0 | Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext, skims over the realities of gay sex, and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight, middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves. |
0 | The leads are so unmemorable, despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes, that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material. |
0 | A relative letdown. |
0 | From its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast, Bartleby squanders as much as it gives out. |
1 | A realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales. |
1 | Brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness. |
0 | Inconsequential road-and-buddy pic. |
0 | It's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since I last walked out on a movie, but Resident Evil really earned my indignant, preemptive departure. |
1 | The leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies. |
1 | About Schmidt belongs to Nicholson. |
1 | Its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism, and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible, almost mystical work. |
0 | Starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other Hollywood-action cliches. |
1 | Even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully, this remains a film about something, one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern. |
0 | The film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message, if indeed there is one. |
1 | Daringly perceptive, taut, piercing and feisty, Biggie and Tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation. |
0 | Boyd's screenplay (co-written with Guardian hack Nick Davies) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to Guy Ritchie than the Bard of Avon. |
1 | Not about scares but a mood in which an ominous, pervasive, and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense. |
1 | This deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications. |
1 | I know that I'll never listen to Marvin Gaye or the Supremes the same way again |
0 | A big, loud, bang-the-drum bore. |
0 | Horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible. |
0 | After Collateral Damage, you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned. |
1 | Predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director John Stockwell. |
1 | Laugh-out-loud lines, adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances, and sparkling, bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma. |
1 | Essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty. |
0 | You get the impression that writer and director Burr Steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools. |
1 | Ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of Chinese 'cultural revolution.' |
1 | Happily, some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude. |
0 | Viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess. |
1 | The viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful Molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers. |
1 | With We Were Soldiers, Hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the Vietnam War before the pathology set in. |
0 | I just saw this movie... well, it's probably not accurate to call it a movie. |
1 | One of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory, even if it's far tamer than advertised. |
1 | A well-done film of a self-reflexive, philosophical nature. |
0 | Still, it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered. |
1 | Filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann area headed east, Far East, in retelling a historically significant, and personal, episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of German Jewish refugees while the world's democracie |
0 | Who, exactly, is fighting whom here? |
0 | can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of Jesse Helms' anti- Castro rhetoric, which are included |
0 | It's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as Phoenix's. |
0 | In truth, it has all the heart of a porno flick (but none of the sheer lust). |
0 | Cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short film. |
1 | If you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger, ENOUGH is just the ticket you need. |
0 | Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better. |
0 | A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects, hoary dialogue, fluxing accents, and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks. |
0 | Every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid, so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy. |
1 | But it is entertaining on an inferior level. |
1 | Plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as Nicholas' wounded and wounding Uncle Ralph. |
0 | Evokes the frustration, the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up, without relying on the usual tropes. |
1 | It's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written, beautifully read and, finally, deeply humanizing. |
0 | As it is, it's too long and unfocused. |
0 | This is not a classical dramatic animated feature, nor a hip, contemporary, in-jokey one. |
1 | I'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy,' but Real Women Have Curves truly is life affirming. |
0 | Too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries. |
1 | Charlotte Sometimes is a gem. |
1 | Australia: Land Beyond Time is an enjoyable Big Movie primarily because Australia is a weirdly beautiful place. |
1 | As immaculate as Stuart Little 2 is, it could be a lot better if it were, well, more adventurous. |
0 | Further sad evidence that Tom Tykwer, director of the resonant and sense-spinning Run Lola Run, has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap. |
1 | (A) satisfying niblet. |
1 | This is a more fascinating look at the future than "Bladerunner" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen. |
0 | Coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting, Circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story. |
1 | It rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide. |
0 | You try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored. |
1 | Payne has created a beautiful canvas, and Nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business. |
0 | (Siegel) and co-writers Lisa Bazadona and Grace Woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround Frankie. |
1 | While the material is slight, the movie is better than you might think. |
0 | Unambitious writing emerges in the movie, using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook. |
1 | The film's strength isn't in its details, but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself, with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest, media-soaked fears. |
0 | I don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. |
0 | A sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women. |
0 | Broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all, and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient. |
1 | Mostly, (Goldbacher) just lets her complicated characters be unruly, confusing and, through it all, human. |
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