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0 | The movie doesn't generate a lot of energy. |
1 | And yet, it still works. |
0 | It squanders Chan's uniqueness; it could even be said to squander Jennifer Love Hewitt! |
1 | ... a light, yet engrossing piece. |
1 | Really quite funny. |
0 | Pretty much sucks, but has a funny moment or two. |
0 | A singularly off-putting romantic comedy. |
0 | Diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance |
0 | The actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless, lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen. |
1 | The off-center humor is a constant, and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery. |
0 | Nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here. |
1 | An eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices, special effects and backgrounds, 'Spy Kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences. |
0 | A lot of talent is wasted in this crass, low-wattage endeavor. |
1 | Saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles, but the payoff is powerful and revelatory. |
1 | An engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale. |
1 | An engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line. |
0 | Kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious. |
1 | It celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity, glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light.' |
0 | Like coming into a long-running, well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six. |
1 | Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude. |
1 | Although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick, "Orange County" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be. |
1 | (The film) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end, it's impossible to ascertain whether the film is, at its core, deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful. |
0 | The film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly, wise and knowing or downright comically evil. |
0 | It's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed. |
1 | An uncomfortable experience, but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from American cinema. |
1 | The huskies are beautiful, the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent. |
1 | Charming and witty, it's also somewhat clumsy. |
1 | Amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances. |
0 | With McConaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and Bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids, there's not enough intelligence, wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd. |
1 | A vivid, spicy footnote to history, and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish. |
1 | ...an eerily suspenseful, deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller. |
0 | Despite Juliet Stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to Pamela's emotional roller coaster life, it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs. |
1 | This film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent, deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion. |
1 | It all plays out ... like a high-end John Hughes comedy, a kind of Elder Bueller's Time Out. |
0 | What with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity, the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom, the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time. |
0 | Wildly incompetent but brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: Totally Past His Prime. |
1 | Those eternally devoted to the insanity of Black will have an intermittently good time. |
0 | The pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie. |
1 | She nearly glows with enthusiasm, sensuality and a conniving wit. |
1 | And for many of us, that's good enough. |
1 | Meyjes ... has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of Nazi politics and aesthetics. |
1 | Poetic, heartbreaking. |
1 | A memorable experience that, like many of his works, presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill. |
1 | As an actress, Madonna is one helluva singer. |
0 | The script by Vincent R. Nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot. |
0 | Just as the lousy Tarantino imitations have subsided, here comes the first lousy Guy Ritchie imitation. |
1 | The direction has a fluid, no-nonsense authority, and the performances by Harris, Phifer and Cam'ron seal the deal. |
1 | A film that will enthrall the whole family. |
0 | It just doesn't have anything really interesting to say. |
1 | Much of The Lady and the Duke is about quiet, decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes. |
0 | While you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch Robert DeNiro belt out "When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way," it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "Tonight." |
1 | A quaint, romanticized rendering. |
1 | Filmmakers David Weissman and Bill Weber benefit enormously from the Cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but they did the same at home. |
1 | As chilling and fascinating as Philippe Mora's modern Hitler-study, Snide and Prejudice. |
0 | A little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment, not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama, Monsoon Wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the Bollywood films. |
0 | A movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between Highlander and Lolita. |
0 | Seagal, who looks more like Danny Aiello these days, mumbles his way through the movie. |
1 | A full experience, a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence. |
0 | How do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any? |
1 | Fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing something purer than the real thing. |
1 | The cast is top-notch and I predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over Michael Idemoto as Michael. |
0 | Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant make a great team, but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip. |
1 | It's all stitched together with energy, intelligence and verve, enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage. |
0 | So muddled, repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style. |
1 | A faster paced family flick. |
0 | "Analyze That" is one of those crass, contrived sequels that not only fails on its own, but makes you second-guess your affection for the original. |
1 | Fairy-tale formula, serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting, dialogue, comedy, direction and especially charm. |
1 | The quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by Rachel Griffiths. |
0 | I'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept, but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché. |
1 | In its understanding, often funny way, it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation. |
1 | Let's issue a moratorium, effective immediately, on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate. |
0 | Tiresomely derivative and hammily acted. |
1 | I walked away from this new version of E.T. just as I hoped I would -- with moist eyes. |
0 | What should have been a cutting Hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of Variety. |
1 | The film does a solid job of slowly, steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence. |
1 | The heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging, suffering and the prospect of death. |
0 | The notion of deleting emotion from people, even in an advanced Prozac Nation, is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus. |
1 | Puts to rest any thought that the German film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food. |
0 | With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity. |
0 | No amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'German-Expressionist,' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable. |
1 | A well-executed spy-thriller. |
0 | Lisa Rinzler's cinematography may be lovely, but Love Liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout, maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension. |
1 | The trailer is a riot. |
0 | This cloying, voices-from-the-other-side story is hell. |
0 | Alas, getting there is not even half the interest. |
1 | A chilly, brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness. |
1 | The result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from Spielberg, who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable. |
1 | I'll go out on a limb. |
1 | Deflated ending aside, there's much to recommend the film. |
0 | Sheridan is painfully bad, a fourth-rate Jim Carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb. |
1 | As improbable as this premise may seem, Abbass's understated, shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level, Lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life. |
0 | Maybe LeBlanc thought, "Hey, the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse." |
1 | Gives an intriguing twist to the French coming-of-age genre. |
1 | He nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race. |
1 | Escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies, infusing into the story very real, complicated emotions. |
0 | Full of bland hotels, highways, parking lots, with some glimpses of nature and family warmth, Time Out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life. |
1 | A naturally funny film, Home Movie makes you crave Chris Smith's next movie. |
0 | director Hoffman, his writer and Kline's agent should serve detention |
1 | The quirky and recessive charms of co-stars Martin Donovan and Mary-Louise Parker help overcome the problematic script. |
0 | It's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex. |
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