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0 | It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly. |
1 | If you can read the subtitles (the opera is sung in Italian) and you like 'Masterpiece Theatre' type costumes, you'll enjoy this movie. |
1 | A terrifically entertaining specimen of Spielbergian sci-fi. |
0 | Simply a re-hash of the other seven films. |
0 | Hmmm...might I suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener? |
1 | A playful Iranian parable about openness, particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences. |
0 | Death might be a release. |
0 | The movie's messages are quite admirable, but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity. |
1 | A live-action cartoon, a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind. |
1 | As ex-Marine Walter, who may or may not have shot Kennedy, actor Raymond J. Barry is perfectly creepy and believable. |
1 | The production design, score and choreography are simply intoxicating. |
1 | The result puts a human face on Derrida, and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less. |
0 | The film is way too full of itself; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-Oscar kind of way. |
1 | According to the script, Grant and Bullock's characters are made for each other. |
1 | The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life, but also acknowledging the places, and the people, from whence you came. |
0 | A perfect example of rancid, well-intentioned, but shamelessly manipulative movie making. |
0 | A movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture. |
1 | Lux, now in her eighties, does a great combination act as narrator, Jewish grandmother and subject – taking us through a film that is part biography, part entertainment and part history. |
1 | A stylish but steady, and ultimately very satisfying, piece of character-driven storytelling. |
0 | The feature-length stretch ... strains the show's concept. |
0 | The characters, cast in impossibly contrived situations, are totally estranged from reality. |
0 | A small independent film suffering from a severe case of Hollywood-itis. |
0 | An exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound. |
1 | Ken Russell would love this. |
0 | Has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool. |
1 | They can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental. |
1 | Claire is a terrific role for someone like Judd, who really ought to be playing villains. |
0 | Kitschy, flashy, overlong soap opera. |
0 | Its message has merit and, in the hands of a brutally honest individual like Prophet Jack, might have made a point or two regarding life. |
0 | Sex is one of those films that aims to confuse. |
0 | First-time director João Pedro Rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on. |
1 | Salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a Mexican icon. |
1 | Human Nature is a goofball movie, in the way that Malkovich was, but it tries too hard. |
1 | The asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family. |
1 | A literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed. |
1 | The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission. |
0 | It sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss, and that's more or less how it plays out. |
1 | The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma, but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest, most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years. |
1 | Sly, sophisticated and surprising. |
1 | (Kline's) utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code, and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it. |
0 | More trifle than triumph. |
0 | It's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before. |
0 | Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote. |
0 | The screenplay, co-written by director Imogen Kimmel, lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise, making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing. |
1 | I hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness. |
1 | She may not be real, but the laughs are. |
0 | Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades. |
0 | A depressingly retrograde, 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women. |
1 | Scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky. |
1 | You can sip your vintage wines and watch your Merchant Ivory productions; I'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a Jerry Bruckheimer flick any day of the week. |
0 | This is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream. |
1 | Both Garcia and Jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters, who are alternately touching and funny. |
0 | Many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside, and I don't think that A.C. will help this movie one bit. |
0 | You'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the Zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy. |
1 | Crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy, existential exploration of why men leave their families. |
1 | Not everyone will welcome or accept The Trials of Henry Kissinger as faithful portraiture, but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one. |
1 | By surrounding us with hyper-artificiality, Haynes makes us see familiar issues, like racism and homophobia, in a fresh way. |
1 | ...somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks. |
1 | A highly spirited, imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-Augustinian theology: Is God stuck in Heaven because He's afraid of His best-known creation? |
1 | Alas, it's the man that makes the clothes. |
0 | When the fire burns out, we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails. |
1 | This often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal. |
1 | The Pianist is Polanski's best film. |
1 | You feel good, you feel sad, you feel pissed off, but in the end, you feel alive - which is what they did. |
0 | Klein, charming in comedies like American Pie and dead-on in Election, delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed. |
1 | From the dull, surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait. |
0 | Utter mush... conceited pap. |
0 | Despite its Hawaiian setting, the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick, the basic plot of "Lilo" could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage Shirley Temple script. |
1 | Gooding is the energetic frontman, and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm, even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences. |
0 | ...the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy. |
1 | Just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians, another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective. |
1 | Think of it as Gidget, only with muscles and a lot more smarts, but just as endearing and easy to watch. |
1 | Grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing, raffish charm and piercing intellect. |
0 | A frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick, contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical, small and decadent for the malls. |
0 | Predictably soulless techno-tripe. |
0 | The filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart. |
1 | It's incredible the number of stories the Holocaust has generated. |
0 | The movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny Phonce and his several silly subplots. |
0 | The film's most improbable feat? |
1 | The charm of Revolution OS is rather the way it introduces you to new, fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers. |
1 | There is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when Friel pulls the strings that make Williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in Williams is as visceral as a gut punch. |
0 | There are some fairly unsettling scenes, but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer. |
0 | Possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio. |
0 | The characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite James Bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as The Usual Suspects. |
1 | A crisp psychological drama (and) a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "Twilight Zone" episode. |
1 | There is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country. |
0 | Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers, a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable. |
1 | A dark, quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation. |
1 | Mr. Spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned. |
0 | What the audience feels is exhaustion, from watching a movie that is dark (dark green, to be exact), sour, bloody and mean. |
1 | Mr. Polanski is in his element here: alone, abandoned, but still consoled by his art, which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival. |
0 | A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism. |
0 | It feels like very light Errol Morris, focusing on eccentricity but failing, ultimately, to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs. |
1 | It's full of cheesy dialogue, but great trashy fun that finally returns De Palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s. |
1 | Diggs and Lathan are among the chief reasons Brown Sugar is such a sweet and sexy film. |
0 | But this new jangle of noise, mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title. |
1 | Darkly funny and frequently insightful. |
1 | Formuliac, but fun. |
0 | There's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life, but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes. |
1 | Damon brings the proper conviction to his role as (Jason Bourne). |
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