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0 | Even with its $50-million US budget, Pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture. |
0 | Adam Sandler's heart may be in the right place, but he needs to pull his head out of his butt |
1 | A genuine mind-bender. |
1 | Just as the recent Argentine film Son of the Bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart, Time of Favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain. |
0 | That frenetic spectacle (on the TV show) has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the Girls' big-screen blowout. |
1 | Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable, Warm Water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy. |
1 | She's all-powerful, a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness. |
0 | Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating. |
1 | This is a story that zings all the way through with originality, humour and pathos. |
0 | What a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is! |
0 | Too stagey, talky -- and long -- for its own good. |
0 | As pure over-the-top trash, any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile. |
1 | A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more. |
1 | On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms, this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny. |
0 | A clumsily manufactured exploitation flick, a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem. |
0 | It lacks the compassion, good-natured humor and the level of insight that made (Eyre's) first film something of a sleeper success. |
0 | Personally, I'd rather watch them on the Animal Planet. |
1 | As commander-in-chief of this film, Bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world. |
0 | An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere. |
1 | The art demands live viewing. |
0 | Paul Cox needed to show it. |
1 | Astonishing...(frames) profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment. |
1 | Although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events, the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters. |
1 | A stirring road movie. |
1 | Bursting through the constraints of its source, this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen. |
1 | Even with all its botches, Enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment. |
0 | The images lack contrast, are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable. |
1 | There's real visual charge to the filmmaking, and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence. |
1 | If you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you. |
1 | City by the Sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for. |
0 | Dismally dull sci-fi comedy. |
1 | It's weird, wonderful, and not necessarily for kids. |
1 | Executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity, with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted Scrooge could fail to respond. |
1 | Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience. |
1 | Grenier is terrific, bringing an unforced, rapid-fire delivery to Toback's Heidegger- and Nietzsche-referencing dialogue. |
0 | Burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off. |
1 | Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling (though no less horrifying for it). |
0 | It's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the National Basketball Association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy Lil' Bow Wow. |
0 | It labours as storytelling. |
1 | A first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home, but your ego and all your problems go with you. |
0 | The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome, with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations. |
0 | It makes me say the obvious: Abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here. |
0 | Festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you. |
0 | Yes, I have given this movie a rating of zero. |
1 | A buoyant romantic comedy about friendship, love, and the truth that we're all in this together. |
1 | The locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches. |
0 | An acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10, but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to McDonald's, let alone some savvy street activism. |
1 | Those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them. |
0 | Has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short, tries its best to hide the fact that Seagal's overweight and out of shape. |
0 | Like a three-ring circus, there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable. |
1 | A fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. |
0 | Just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience. |
1 | ...one of the more influential works of the 'Korean New Wave'. |
1 | The closest thing to the experience of space travel |
0 | Right now, they're merely signposts marking the slow, lingering death of imagination. |
0 | While easier to sit through than most of Jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films, it's still tainted by cliches, painful improbability and murky points. |
1 | Bon appétit! |
1 | As animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool, this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth. |
0 | Boy, has this franchise ever run out of gas. |
0 | The film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative. |
0 | Two hours of junk. |
0 | This is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer. |
1 | I love the opening scenes of a wintry New York City in 1899. |
1 | (D)espite its familiar subject matter, Ice Age is consistently amusing and engrossing ... |
1 | Though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations, the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should. |
0 | Alternative medicine obviously has its merits ... but Ayurveda does the field no favors. |
1 | A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange. |
0 | It's not as awful as some of the recent Hollywood trip tripe ... but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor. |
1 | Infidelity drama is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by Diane Lane. |
0 | A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties. |
0 | Talkiness isn't necessarily bad, but the dialogue frequently misses the mark. |
0 | But the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it, and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes. |
0 | Not so much farcical as sour. |
0 | Like life on the island, the movie grows boring despite the scenery. |
0 | The material and the production itself are little more than routine. |
0 | Aspires to the cracked lunacy of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. |
1 | Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise. |
1 | When it's this rich and luscious, who cares? |
1 | Informative, intriguing, observant, often touching...gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms. |
1 | A compelling pre-WWII drama with vivid characters and a warm, moving message. |
0 | A bizarre piece of work, with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy, rape and suspected murder |
0 | At best, Cletis Tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience. |
0 | Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience. |
1 | What a concept, what an idea, what a thrill ride. |
1 | Unlike most surf movies, Blue Crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave. |
0 | Be forewarned, if you're depressed about anything before watching this film, you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards. |
0 | It has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long past. |
1 | It strikes hardest... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain. |
1 | Most consumers of lo mein and General Tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it, so, hopefully, this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons. |
0 | Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates, it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash. |
0 | The nicest thing that can be said about Stealing Harvard (which might have been called Freddy Gets Molested by a Dog) is that it's not as obnoxious as Tom Green's Freddie Got Fingered. |
0 | Ill-considered, unholy hokum. |
0 | It's just merely very bad. |
1 | A flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantile. |
0 | Rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre, who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects. |
0 | Trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie Snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible. |
1 | The film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in Laramie following the murder of Matthew Shepard. |
0 | This toothless Dog, already on cable, loses all bite on the big screen. |
1 | This rich, bittersweet Israeli documentary, about the life of song-and-dance-man Pasach'ke Burstein and his family, transcends ethnic lines. |
0 | Boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up, but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect. |
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