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0 | Starts out mediocre, spirals downward, and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion. |
0 | Michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously. |
0 | The film falls short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original New Testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries. |
0 | The idea is more interesting than the screenplay, which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy, unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of Run Lola Run. |
0 | If you are willing to do this, then you so crazy! |
0 | There's nothing exactly wrong here, but there's not nearly enough that's right. |
0 | Kim Ki-Deok seems to have in mind an (emotionally at least) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested. |
1 | Amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familial community, one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger, fatter heart than Barbershop. |
1 | brought to life on the big screen. |
1 | If it's not entirely memorable, the movie is certainly easy to watch. |
1 | Knows how to make our imagination wonder. |
0 | Leaks treacle from every pore. |
1 | The Saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence, and The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world. |
1 | The actors are fantastic. |
1 | ...a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle, sometimes a guffaw and, to my great pleasure, the occasional belly laugh. |
1 | ... an enjoyably frothy 'date movie'... |
1 | Neither the funniest film that Eddie Murphy nor Robert De Niro has ever made, Showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while. |
1 | Awesome work: ineffable, elusive, yet inexplicably powerful |
1 | Leaping from one arresting image to another, Songs from the Second Floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling, amusing and unsettling at the same time. |
1 | Intensely romantic, thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery. |
1 | Faithful without being forceful, sad without being shrill, "A Walk to Remember" succeeds through sincerity. |
1 | A wildly entertaining scan of Evans' career. |
1 | Does point the way for adventurous Indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets. |
1 | Schaeffer isn't in this film, which may be why it works as well as it does. |
1 | It is about irrational, unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity. |
1 | (Breheny's) lensing of the New Zealand and Cook Island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people. |
1 | (An) absorbing documentary. |
1 | If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change. |
0 | Oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material |
0 | It's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie. |
0 | Has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be. |
1 | Parris' performance is credible and remarkably mature. |
1 | The film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength, but it's propelled by the acting. |
1 | 'Stock up on silver bullets for director Neil Marshall's intense freight train of a film.' |
1 | The casting of von Sydow ... is itself Intacto's luckiest stroke. |
1 | Exhilarating, funny and fun. |
0 | Bean drops the ball too many times... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay. |
1 | Michael Moore's latest documentary about America's thirst for violence is his best film yet... |
0 | The Tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life. |
0 | At the one-hour mark, Herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion. |
0 | Nearly every attempt at humor here is DOA. |
0 | It's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns. |
1 | Everything in Maid in Manhattan is exceedingly pleasant, designed not to offend. |
1 | Ourside the theatre Roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with. |
0 | Enigma is well-made, but it's just too dry and too placid. |
1 | Not quite as miraculous as its DreamWorks makers would have you believe, but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions. |
0 | Eight Legged Freaks falls flat as a spoof. |
1 | Takes you by the face, strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you: slow down, shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy, distracted rhythms. |
0 | It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry (1984) to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation. |
1 | Short-story quaint, touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of Eudora Welty. |
1 | smart, funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty, just-above-average off- Broadway play. |
1 | A photographic marvel of sorts, and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community. |
0 | ...while the humor aspects of 'Jason X' were far more entertaining than I had expected, everything else about the film tanks. |
1 | But not without cheesy fun factor. |
1 | Tsai Ming-liang's witty, wistful new film, What Time Is It There? |
0 | Becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any Plympton film: boring. |
0 | Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations. |
1 | Last Orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters, allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced. |
0 | The only thing I laughed at were the people who paid to see it. |
0 | The script, the gags, the characters are all direct-to-video stuff, and that's where this film should have remained. |
0 | On the evidence before us, the answer is clear: Not easily and, in the end, not well enough. |
0 | An awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism. |
0 | Each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth. |
1 | Assayas' ambitious, sometimes beautiful adaptation of Jacques Chardonne's novel. |
0 | Nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time, something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives. |
1 | The film just might turn on many people to opera, in general, an art form at once visceral and spiritual, wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life. |
1 | A straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given. |
0 | ...hokey art house pretension. |
0 | Unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script. |
1 | And there's the inimitable Diaz, holding it all together. |
0 | Told in scattered fashion, the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject. |
0 | Comes across as a fairly weak retooling. |
1 | One of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting, inventive screenplay, mesmerizing music, and many inimitable scenes of tenderness, loss, discontent, and yearning. |
0 | The big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing. |
0 | As saccharine movies go, this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses. |
1 | The film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both Steve Buscemi and Rosario Dawson... |
0 | It's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the Cannes Film Festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere. |
0 | Apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret, but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it. |
0 | It never rises to its clever what-if concept. |
0 | Shallow, noisy and pretentious. |
1 | Demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces. |
1 | Not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit, but for the rest of us -- especially San Francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see. |
1 | Engages us in constant fits of laughter, until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story, and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched. |
1 | A clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics. |
1 | It's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits. |
1 | An enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race. |
0 | A handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on PBS than a night out at an AMC. |
1 | A fine production with splendid singing by Angela Gheorghiu, Ruggero Raimondi, and Roberto Alagna. |
1 | It may scream low budget, but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied. |
1 | -style cross-country adventure... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness, some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack. |
1 | A polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con. |
1 | Don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some. |
0 | Could as easily have been called 'Under Siege 3: In Alcatraz'...a cinematic corpse that never springs to life. |
1 | Cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle. |
0 | Is it a comedy? |
0 | As is often the case with ambitious, eager first-time filmmakers, Mr. Murray, a prolific director of music videos, stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold. |
0 | It doesn't make for great cinema, but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity. |
0 | Its and pieces of The Hot Chick are so hilarious, and Schneider's performance is so fine, it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again, as in The Animal -- is a slapdash mess. |
0 | This is Sandler running on empty, repeating what he's already done way too often. |
1 | Both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy, What Time Is It There? |
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