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1 | Elvira fans could hardly ask for more. |
0 | Its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously, but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare. |
1 | A coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood. |
0 | At times, it actually hurts to watch. |
0 | Made me unintentionally famous -- as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby. |
1 | (Taymor) utilizes the idea of making Kahlo's art a living, breathing part of the movie, often catapulting the artist into her own work. |
1 | One of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting, direction, story and pace. |
1 | Forget about one Oscar nomination for Julianne Moore this year - she should get all five. |
1 | I like it. |
0 | Philosophically, intellectually and logistically a mess. |
1 | While the humor is recognizably Plympton, he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time. |
1 | Although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness, those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime. |
0 | A well-crafted letdown. |
1 | Duvall is strong as always. |
0 | Toward the end Sum of All Fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick. |
1 | Terrific performances, great to look at, and funny. |
1 | Very well-written and very well-acted. |
0 | There's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention, but it grows monotonous after a while, as do Joan and Philip's repetitive arguments, schemes and treachery. |
0 | Girlfriends are bad, wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter Italian comedy. |
0 | Adrift, Bentley and Hudson stare and sniffle, respectively, as Ledger attempts, in vain, to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design. |
0 | Muddled, simplistic and more than a little pretentious. |
0 | Morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull, lifeless, and irritating. |
0 | Carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders, Chan wades through putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, 'If I stay positive, maybe I can channel one of my greatest pictures, Drunken Master.' |
1 | Nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one. |
0 | This latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff, demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent, well-made B movie is long gone. |
1 | And that makes all the difference. |
1 | Robert Harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows. |
0 | ...a sour little movie at its core; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's ...The film's ending has a "What was it all for?" |
1 | It's good to see Michael Caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again. |
0 | Slack and uninspired, and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth. |
0 | Forgettable, if good-hearted, movie. |
1 | A riveting story well told. |
0 | For every articulate player, such as skateboarder Tony Hawk or BMX rider Mat Hoffman, are about a half dozen young Turks angling to see how many times they can work the words "radical" or "suck" into a sentence. |
0 | A culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is. |
0 | This is a third-person story now, told by Hollywood, and much more ordinary for it. |
0 | At 90 minutes this movie is short, but it feels much longer. |
0 | McKay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages, apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service. |
0 | The big-screen Scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison. |
1 | The fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that Broomfield's interviewees, or even himself, will not be for much longer. |
0 | The script? |
1 | Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing, from her own screenplay, jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style. |
1 | likeable thanks to its cast, its cuisine and its quirky tunes. |
1 | borrows a bit from the classics "Wait Until Dark" and "Extremities" ... But in terms of its style, the movie is in a class by itself. |
1 | A pleasant piece of escapist entertainment. |
1 | Sweet and memorable film. |
1 | This is a movie you can trust. |
0 | Whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black. |
1 | Impresses as a skillfully assembled, highly polished and professional adaptation...just about as chilling and unsettling as 'Manhunter' was. |
0 | These guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers. |
1 | There are a couple of things that elevate "Glory" above most of its ilk, most notably the mere presence of Duvall. |
1 | It is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band. |
1 | Daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that, by the time the credits roll across the pat ending, a warm, fuzzy feeling prevails. |
1 | Many a parent and their teen (or preteen) kid could bond while watching A Walk To Remember. |
1 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it. |
1 | Though the film is static, its writer-director's heart is in the right place, his plea for democracy and civic action laudable. |
1 | Evelyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning, heartwarming yarn. |
0 | ...bibbidy-bobbidi-bland. |
0 | One thing's for sure--if George Romero had directed this movie, it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head. |
1 | And he allows a gawky actor like Spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range. |
0 | Epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made Tucker a star. |
1 | It's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies, but the word perfectly describes Pauline & Paulette. |
1 | 'Blue Crush' swims away with the Sleeper Movie of the Summer award. |
0 | Needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance. |
1 | It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho. |
0 | But the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure. |
1 | So fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy, confused, and totally disorientated. |
1 | Despite an overwrought ending, the film works as well as it does because of the performances. |
1 | A film of ideas and wry comic mayhem. |
1 | Effective in all its aspects, Margarita Happy Hour represents an auspicious feature debut for Chaiken. |
0 | Goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures, and it looks as though Jay Roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab. |
1 | Quietly engaging. |
1 | What could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey. |
0 | Not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since The Bad News Bears has been? |
0 | A 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions, writer-director Parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum. |
0 | What starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points. |
1 | The dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen. |
0 | Has none of the crackle of "Fatal Attraction", "9 ½ Weeks", or even "Indecent Proposal", and feels more like Lyne's stolid remake of "Lolita". |
1 | A sensitive, modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern China. |
1 | Fathers and sons, and the uneasy bonds between them, rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film. |
0 | As a director, Eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense, and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising. |
1 | There's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all. |
1 | ..."Bowling for Columbine" remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film... |
0 | It's a loathsome movie, it really is and it makes absolutely no sense. |
0 | Phoned-in business as usual. |
0 | The only thing to fear about "Fear Dot Com" is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film. |
1 | Blade II merges bits and pieces from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, James Bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew. |
0 | To the vast majority of more casual filmgoers, it will probably be a talky bore. |
1 | There is a real subject here, and it is handled with intelligence and care. |
1 | Bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable. |
1 | The film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong. |
0 | It's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition. |
1 | An unforgettable look at morality, family, and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage. |
0 | A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply. |
1 | A funny film. |
1 | A gangster movie with the capacity to surprise. |
0 | A grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy French grandfather. |
0 | It's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel, but the result is more puzzling than unsettling. |
1 | An entertaining, if somewhat standardized, action movie. |
1 | A generous, inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith. |
0 | Eight Legged Freaks? |
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