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1	Mark Pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth.
0	No amount of burning, blasting, stabbing, and shooting can hide a weak script.
1	Prepare to marvel again.
0	Family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance.
0	Stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.
1	Troubling and powerful.
0	Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon.
0	'Dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo, manipulative sentimentality, and sappy dialogue.
1	A genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama.
1	Amy and Matthew have a bit of a phony relationship, but the film works in spite of it.
1	Maybe it is formula filmmaking, but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is.
1	Nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible: He isn't blind to the silliness, but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction.
0	Rock's stand-up magic wanes.
1	A delightful, if minor, pastry of a movie.
1	A sexy, surprising romance... Idemoto and Kim make a gorgeous pair... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger.
1	There aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny, offbeat and heartwarming (without a thick shmear of the goo, at least), but "Elling" manages to do all three quite well, making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases.
0	plays like some corny television production from a bygone era
1	As a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy, Kissing Jessica Steinis quirky, charming and often hilarious.
0	It's like a drive-by.
1	It's sweet.
0	One of the worst movies of the year.
1	Like Brosnan's performance, Evelyn comes from the heart.
1	Though the film is well-intentioned, one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable.
1	(Woo's) most resonant film since The Killer.
0	It's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious.
0	This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.
1	Strange and beautiful film.
0	The histrionic muse still eludes Madonna and, playing a charmless witch, she is merely a charmless witch.
0	The result, however well-intentioned, is ironically just the sort of disposable, kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's Hollywood.
0	The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
0	One of those so-so films that could have been much better.
0	Has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of General Hospital.
0	As original and insightful as last week's episode of Behind the Music.
1	Marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary.
0	...this story gets sillier, not scarier, as it goes along...
0	... most viewers will wish there had been more of the "Queen" and less of the "Damned."
1	Reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others.
1	As a vehicle to savour Binoche's skill, the film is well worthwhile.
1	What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera's attention to detail.
1	Steers, in his feature film debut, has created a brilliant motion picture.
1	It has a way of seeping into your consciousness, with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at.
1	The charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems.
1	The pleasure of Read My Lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string.
0	Insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang, shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion.
0	This would-be 'James Bond for the Extreme Generation' pic is one big, dumb action movie.
0	When it comes to the battle of Hollywood vs. Woo, it looks like Woo's a P.O.W.
0	Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story, but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention.
0	Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.
1	It turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning.
0	is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.
1	An example of quiet, confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet, charming tale of intergalactic friendship.
0	Cheap, vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace.
0	Been there done that.
0	Something has been lost in the translation...another routine Hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise.
1	Tense, terrific, sweaty-palmed fun.
0	Despite some charm and heart, this quirky soccer import is forgettable
1	Cuaron repeatedly, perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it, giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective.
1	For all its brooding quality, Ash Wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
1	Delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone, especially movie musical fans, has been hoping for.
0	-- that the 'true story' by which All the Queen's Men is allegedly "inspired" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen.
0	You could hate it for the same reason.
1	A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously.
1	waydowntown may not be an important movie, or even a good one, but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot Oscar season currently underway.
1	"Frailty" starts out like a typical Bible killer story, but it turns out to be significantly different (and better) than most films with this theme.
1	Thanks to The Château's balance of whimsicality, narrative discipline and serious improvisation, almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises.
0	Gaghan captures the half-lit, sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms, a subtlety that makes the silly, over-the-top coda especially disappointing.
0	Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent.
1	In the affable Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm, the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly A-list players.
1	Elegantly produced and expressively performed, the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy.
1	Dark and unrepentant, this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten.
0	Solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say, but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me.
0	A beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic.'
0	Stale, futile scenario.
1	A film in a class with Spike Lee's masterful Do The Right Thing.
0	In addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever also features terrible, banal dialogue; convenient, hole-ridden plotting; superficial characters and a rather dull, unimaginative car chase.
0	Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in.
0	A simpler, leaner treatment would have been preferable; after all, being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something.
1	A delightful stimulus for the optic nerves, so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow.
0	Nothing but an episode of Smackdown!
1	For all the charm of Kevin Kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope, there's something creepy about this movie.
0	Kirshner and Monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other.
0	The only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow.
0	It's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish.
0	A plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists.
0	It's drab.
1	... a delightfully unpredictable, hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels.
1	What's so striking about Jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair.
0	In my own very humble opinion, In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works.
1	I've never bought from telemarketers, but I bought this movie.
1	Woven together handsomely, recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from Lonely Boy to Don't Look Back.
1	Horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the Serbs themselves but also to a network of American right-wing extremists.
1	A sun-drenched masterpiece, part parlor game, part psychological case study, part droll social satire.
0	A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions.
1	10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away.
1	An enjoyable above average summer diversion.
0	Watching this film, what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement.
1	It's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn, but it definitely gives you something to chew on.
0	Violent, vulgar and forgettably entertaining.
0	Like many such biographical melodramas, it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories.
0	As a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired.

1

Mark Pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth.

0

No amount of burning, blasting, stabbing, and shooting can hide a weak script.

1

Prepare to marvel again.

0

Family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance.

0

Stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.

1

Troubling and powerful.

0

Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon.

0

'Dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo, manipulative sentimentality, and sappy dialogue.

1

A genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama.

1

Amy and Matthew have a bit of a phony relationship, but the film works in spite of it.

1

Maybe it is formula filmmaking, but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is.

1

Nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible: He isn't blind to the silliness, but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction.

0

Rock's stand-up magic wanes.

1

A delightful, if minor, pastry of a movie.

1

A sexy, surprising romance... Idemoto and Kim make a gorgeous pair... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger.

1

There aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny, offbeat and heartwarming (without a thick shmear of the goo, at least), but "Elling" manages to do all three quite well, making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases.

0

plays like some corny television production from a bygone era

1

As a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy, Kissing Jessica Steinis quirky, charming and often hilarious.

0

It's like a drive-by.

1

It's sweet.

0

One of the worst movies of the year.

1

Like Brosnan's performance, Evelyn comes from the heart.

1

Though the film is well-intentioned, one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable.

1

(Woo's) most resonant film since The Killer.

0

It's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious.

0

This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.

1

Strange and beautiful film.

0

The histrionic muse still eludes Madonna and, playing a charmless witch, she is merely a charmless witch.

0

The result, however well-intentioned, is ironically just the sort of disposable, kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's Hollywood.

0

The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.

0

One of those so-so films that could have been much better.

0

Has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of General Hospital.

0

As original and insightful as last week's episode of Behind the Music.

1

Marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary.

0

...this story gets sillier, not scarier, as it goes along...

0

... most viewers will wish there had been more of the "Queen" and less of the "Damned."

1

Reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others.

1

As a vehicle to savour Binoche's skill, the film is well worthwhile.

1

What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera's attention to detail.

1

Steers, in his feature film debut, has created a brilliant motion picture.

1

It has a way of seeping into your consciousness, with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at.

1

The charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems.

1

The pleasure of Read My Lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string.

0

Insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang, shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion.

0

This would-be 'James Bond for the Extreme Generation' pic is one big, dumb action movie.

0

When it comes to the battle of Hollywood vs. Woo, it looks like Woo's a P.O.W.

0

Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story, but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention.

0

Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.

1

It turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning.

0

is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.

1

An example of quiet, confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet, charming tale of intergalactic friendship.

0

Cheap, vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace.

0

Been there done that.

0

Something has been lost in the translation...another routine Hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise.

1

Tense, terrific, sweaty-palmed fun.

0

Despite some charm and heart, this quirky soccer import is forgettable

1

Cuaron repeatedly, perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it, giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective.

1

For all its brooding quality, Ash Wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.

1

Delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone, especially movie musical fans, has been hoping for.

0

-- that the 'true story' by which All the Queen's Men is allegedly "inspired" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen.

0

You could hate it for the same reason.

1

A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously.

1

waydowntown may not be an important movie, or even a good one, but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot Oscar season currently underway.

1

"Frailty" starts out like a typical Bible killer story, but it turns out to be significantly different (and better) than most films with this theme.

1

Thanks to The Château's balance of whimsicality, narrative discipline and serious improvisation, almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises.

0

Gaghan captures the half-lit, sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms, a subtlety that makes the silly, over-the-top coda especially disappointing.

0

Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent.

1

In the affable Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm, the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly A-list players.

1

Elegantly produced and expressively performed, the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy.

1

Dark and unrepentant, this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten.

0

Solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say, but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me.

0

A beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic.'

0

Stale, futile scenario.

1

A film in a class with Spike Lee's masterful Do The Right Thing.

0

In addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever also features terrible, banal dialogue; convenient, hole-ridden plotting; superficial characters and a rather dull, unimaginative car chase.

0

Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in.

0

A simpler, leaner treatment would have been preferable; after all, being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something.

1

A delightful stimulus for the optic nerves, so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow.

0

Nothing but an episode of Smackdown!

1

For all the charm of Kevin Kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope, there's something creepy about this movie.

0

Kirshner and Monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other.

0

The only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow.

0

It's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish.

0

A plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists.

0

It's drab.

1

... a delightfully unpredictable, hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels.

1

What's so striking about Jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair.

0

In my own very humble opinion, In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works.

1

I've never bought from telemarketers, but I bought this movie.

1

Woven together handsomely, recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from Lonely Boy to Don't Look Back.

1

Horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the Serbs themselves but also to a network of American right-wing extremists.

1

A sun-drenched masterpiece, part parlor game, part psychological case study, part droll social satire.

0

A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions.

1

10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away.

1

An enjoyable above average summer diversion.

0

Watching this film, what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement.

1

It's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn, but it definitely gives you something to chew on.

0

Violent, vulgar and forgettably entertaining.

0

Like many such biographical melodramas, it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories.

0

As a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired.