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0 | There's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments. |
1 | Williams absolutely nails Sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness. |
0 | . Curiously, Super Troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length. |
0 | As exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical Pax viewer, the rest of us will be lulled into a coma. |
0 | Watch Barbershop again if you're in need of a Cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through. |
0 | An awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating. |
0 | Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike, Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire. |
1 | I haven't laughed that hard in years! |
1 | Sorvino is delightful in the central role. |
1 | A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost. |
1 | What a great way to spend 4 units of your day. |
1 | A passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action. |
1 | Both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right. |
1 | And Vin Diesel is the man. |
0 | Just a Kiss is a just a waste. |
0 | Murder by Numbers just doesn't add up. |
0 | All three descriptions suit Evelyn, a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new. |
1 | This is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action, cheese, ham and cheek (as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior), but it feels like unrealized potential |
1 | In Death to Smoochy, we don't get Williams' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing. |
0 | An uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening. |
0 | The movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive. |
0 | Bears is even worse than I imagined a movie ever could be. |
0 | Dramatically lackluster. |
1 | made Eddie Murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day. |
1 | This is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the American underground. |
1 | Yes, MIBII is rote work and predictable, but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end that extravagantly redeems it. |
0 | Their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle. |
0 | All the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams. |
0 | Tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm, but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality. |
1 | A gently funny, sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good, that is to say, entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp, overmanipulative Hollywood practices. |
0 | Tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span. |
1 | The obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc. |
0 | You emerge dazed, confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary. |
0 | Lucy's a dull girl, that's all. |
1 | Sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments. |
0 | Directed without the expected flair or imagination by Hong Kong master John Woo, Windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length. |
1 | It looks closely, insightfully at fragile, complex relationships. |
0 | The story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired. |
0 | is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche. |
0 | The Mothman Prophecies, which is mostly a bore, seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece. |
1 | Spirit is a visual treat, and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards, but it lacks a strong narrative. |
1 | This is one of the rarest kinds of films: a family-oriented non-Disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt. |
1 | For almost the first two-thirds of Martin Scorsese's 168-minute Gangs of New York, I was entranced. |
0 | ...a cheap, ludicrous attempt at serious horror. |
0 | An unremittingly ugly movie to look at, listen to, and think about, it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the DV revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film. |
1 | Enticing and often funny documentary. |
0 | But one thing's for sure: It never comes close to being either funny or scary. |
0 | The movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure. |
1 | Whereas Oliver Stone's conspiracy thriller JFK was long, intricate, star-studded and visually flashy, Interview with the Assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity. |
1 | The Komediant is a tale worth catching. |
0 | The holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent, meandering, and sometimes dry plot. |
1 | Worth seeing just for Weaver and LaPaglia. |
0 | It follows the Blair Witch formula for an hour, in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works, and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes. |
1 | An encouraging effort from McCrudden |
1 | I was amused and entertained by the unfolding of Bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario, and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise. |
1 | Such master screenwriting comes courtesy of John Pogue, the Yale grad who previously gave us "The Skulls" and last year's "Rollerball." |
1 | Initially gripping, eventually cloying POW drama. |
0 | This is not a Jackie Chan movie. |
1 | Chamber of Secrets will find millions of eager fans. |
0 | Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago. |
0 | A timid, soggy near miss. |
1 | A solidly constructed, entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration. |
1 | A quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness. |
1 | Smith examines the intimate, unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country. |
0 | I admire it and yet cannot recommend it, because it overstays its natural running time. |
0 | Thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic. |
0 | I can analyze this movie in three words: Thumbs Friggin' Down. |
0 | If only it were, well, funnier. |
0 | It is messy, uncouth, incomprehensible, vicious and absurd. |
1 | From its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale, Martin is a masterfully conducted work. |
0 | Charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past Love Story derisions. |
0 | Kung Pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after Oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party. |
0 | Its premise is smart, but the execution is pretty weary. |
1 | An engrossing Iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed. |
0 | for those for whom the name Woody Allen was once a guarantee of something fresh, sometimes funny, and usually genuinely worthwhile, Hollywood Ending is a depressing experience |
0 | Somewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler, there is a mediocre movie trying to get out. |
1 | First and foremost...the reason to go see "Blue Crush" is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by David Hennings. |
1 | Connoisseurs of Chinese film will be pleased to discover that Tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus. |
1 | Gaunt, silver-haired and leonine, (Harris) brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging Sandeman. |
1 | Left me with the visceral sensation of longing, lasting traces of Charlotte's web of desire and desperation. |
0 | The problem with The Bread, My Sweet is that it's far too sentimental. |
1 | Combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration. |
0 | Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny. |
0 | The main characters are simply named The Husband, The Wife and The Kidnapper, emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort. |
0 | A Movie to Forget |
0 | Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue. |
0 | Starts out with tremendous promise, introducing an intriguing and alluring premise, only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter. |
1 | A raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted Korean American stand-up's I'm the One That I Want. |
1 | A completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and, some plot blips aside, stays there for the duration. |
0 | An artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike. |
0 | The movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh,' which is better than most of the writing in the movie. |
0 | If that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong, nothing will. |
0 | This loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience. |
0 | It's not an easy one to review. |
0 | Ultimately, in the history of the Academy, people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "Chicago" in 2002. |
1 | The film has a terrific look and Salma Hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life. |
1 | What makes Barbershop so likable, with all its flaws, is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies. |
0 | This is for the most part a useless movie, even with a great director at the helm. |
1 | (Reaches) wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair. |
1 | The film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved ... This makes it not only a detailed historical document, but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture. |
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