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1 | ...a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing. |
0 | I walked away not really know who "they" were, what "they" looked like. |
0 | The movie is genial but never inspired, and little about it will stay with you. |
0 | What happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares? |
0 | Long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame. |
1 | Familiar but utterly delightful. |
0 | The chocolate factory without Charlie. |
0 | May offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor. |
1 | Steven Spielberg brings us another masterpiece |
0 | It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked There's Something About Mary and both American Pie movies. |
0 | Complex, sinuously plotted and, somehow, off-puttingly cold. |
1 | A lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to Grant, who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the Atlantic love him. |
1 | The rare Imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour. |
1 | If you're a comic fan, you can't miss it. |
1 | A marvel of production design. |
0 | From the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line, "Besotted" is misbegotten |
1 | A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic, this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story. |
1 | From both a great and a terrible story, Mr. Nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience. |
1 | Consider it 'perfection.' |
1 | Affectionately reminds us that, in any language, the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things. |
1 | If the material is slight and admittedly manipulative, Jacquot preserves Tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera. |
0 | Like the Tuck family themselves, this movie just goes on and on and on and on |
0 | It should be doing a lot of things, but doesn't. |
1 | Moretti ... is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and, as it turns out, more fragile -- than happiness. |
0 | ...irritating soul-searching garbage. |
0 | A humorless journey into a philosophical void. |
0 | None of this sounds promising and, indeed, the first half of Sorority Boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens. |
0 | You can drive right by it without noticing anything special, save for a few comic turns, intended and otherwise. |
0 | The film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down. |
1 | The story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense, which director Shekhar Kapur supplies with tremendous skill. |
0 | Were Dylan Thomas alive to witness first-time director Ethan Hawke's strained Chelsea Walls, he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Theatre.' |
0 | The film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive... |
1 | Triple X is a double agent, and he's one bad dude. |
0 | Wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically, and borrows heavily from Lynch, Jeunet, and von Trier while failing to find a spark of its own. |
0 | Lyne's latest, the erotic thriller Unfaithful, further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded. |
0 | A determined, ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird. |
0 | Fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics, genre thrills or inherent humor. |
1 | Jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness. |
1 | Daughter From Danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story |
1 | The movie's captivating details are all in the performances, from Foreman's barking-mad Taylor to Thewlis's smoothly sinister Freddie and Bettany/McDowell's hard-eyed gangster. |
0 | Quite frankly, I can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a McCulloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out. |
0 | A little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt. |
0 | A really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness. |
0 | A bit too eager to please. |
0 | Sade achieves the near-impossible: It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard. |
1 | It seems impossible that an epic four-hour Indian musical about a cricket game could be this good, but it is. |
1 | Rarely has skin looked as beautiful, desirable, even delectable, as it does in Trouble Every Day. |
0 | A piece of mildly entertaining, inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category: unembarrassing but unmemorable. |
1 | Funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness. |
0 | This kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that I even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater |
0 | Shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen, and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera. |
0 | The story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal, fireballs and revenge. |
1 | imagine a scenario where Bergman approaches Swedish fatalism using Gary Larson's Far Side humor |
0 | He's not good with people. |
0 | Big mistake. |
0 | Aan opportunity wasted. |
1 | Y Tu Mamá También is hilariously, gloriously alive, and quite often hotter than Georgia asphalt. |
1 | Rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-Shakespeare controversy. |
1 | It is quite a vision. |
0 | A stupid, derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense. |
1 | The color sense of Stuart Little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure, but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is. |
1 | Downbeat, period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message. |
0 | Less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession. |
0 | The pairing does sound promising in theory...but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners. |
0 | You come away thinking not only that Kate isn't very bright, but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she, Janine and Molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another. |
1 | If you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining, you're in luck. |
1 | A triumph of pure craft and passionate heart. |
1 | Cool. |
1 | The film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks, plus moments of breathtaking mystery. |
1 | Beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes. |
1 | Morvern Callar confirms Lynne Ramsay as an important, original talent in international cinema. |
0 | Guy gets girl, guy loses girl, audience falls asleep. |
1 | There are so few films about the plight of American Indians in modern America that Skins comes as a welcome, if downbeat, missive from a forgotten front. |
0 | Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. |
1 | Bluer than the Atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy, the movie ... is, also, frequently hilarious. |
1 | Bouquet gives a performance that is masterly. |
0 | It's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut, Mad Cows. |
1 | There's a lot to recommend Read My Lips. |
0 | I'd rather watch a rerun of The Powerpuff Girls |
1 | This submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to Das Boot. |
0 | The only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering. |
0 | It's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure. |
1 | Maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts. |
0 | The movie doesn't think much of its characters, its protagonist, or of us. |
0 | Britney Spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived, lame screenplay and listless direction. |
0 | The movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error.' |
1 | Devos and Cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension, while never really vocalized, is palpable. |
0 | ...about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season. |
1 | Terrific as Nadia, a Russian mail-order bride who comes to America speaking not a word of English, it's Kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers. |
0 | He fails. |
1 | This new movie version of the Alexandre Dumas classic is the stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit. |
0 | Nicolas Cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray, and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career. |
1 | It's dark but has wonderfully funny moments; you care about the characters; and the action and special effects are first-rate. |
1 | Jeong-Hyang Lee's film is deceptively simple, deeply satisfying. |
1 | The bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect, but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie. |
0 | For a film about action, Ultimate X is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever, bogging down in a barrage of hype. |
1 | It's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but. |
0 | One can't shake the feeling that Crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for Britney's latest album. |
1 | Visually engrossing, seldom hammy, honorably Mexican and burns its Kahlories with conviction. |
1 | High Crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience. |
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