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1	Malcolm McDowell is cool.
0	The movie wavers between Hallmark card sentimentality and goofy, life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial.
1	As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle, Sex with Strangers is a success.
0	A reality-snubbing hodgepodge.
0	(A) slummer.
0	It's a big idea, but the film itself is small and shriveled.
1	An engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character.
1	Sayles has a knack for casting, often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors.
0	For all its violence, the movie is remarkably dull with only Caine making much of an impression.
1	This is a finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.
1	At the end, when the now computerized Yoda finally reveals his martial artistry, the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside.
1	Ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent years.
0	...a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone.
0	Even if it made its original release date last fall, it would've reeked of a been-there, done-that sameness.
0	Unfortunately, it's also not very good.
1	The most wondrous love story in years, it is a great film.
0	Too much power, not enough puff.
0	Despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from Kathryn Bigelow, The Weight of Water is oppressively heavy.
1	Finally, the French-produced "Read My Lips" is a movie that understands characters must come first.
1	Even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene, in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia, it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon.
0	A film which presses familiar Herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction, when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised.
1	The rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based.
0	Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem to hit Sascha.
1	(Dong) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view, and he does such a good job of it that Family Fundamentals gets you riled up.
0	once she lets her love depraved leads meet, (Denis') story becomes a hopeless, unsatisfying muddle
0	Nothing too deep or substantial.
0	But what is missing from it all is a moral.
1	Splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity.
0	Obvious, obnoxious and didactic burlesque.
1	It's definitely a step in the right direction.
0	Vaguely interesting, but it's just too too much.
1	The film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama, but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from Paul's perspective.
1	This one is a few bits funnier than Malle's dud, if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks.
1	The writing is clever and the cast is appealing.
1	Although commentary on Nachtwey is provided ... it's the image that really tells the tale.
0	A nearly 21/2 hours, the film is way too indulgent.
0	...unlikable, uninteresting, unfunny, and completely, utterly inept.
1	Some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious, but restrained and subtle storytelling, and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat.
1	But the talented cast alone will keep you watching, as will the fight scenes.
1	Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese.
1	Jeffrey Tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy.
1	An overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget, video-shot, debut indie effort.
0	A clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary, naturalistic tone of the film ...
0	'Christian Bale's Quinn (is) a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like Gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent.'
0	I'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about.
1	It's a scorcher.
0	A real snooze.
1	Like its title character, this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.
0	The kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored, cheering the pratfalls but little else; their parents, wise folks that they are, read books.
0	Partly a schmaltzy, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless.
0	For its 100 minutes running time, you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen.
1	A chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president, but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten, cynical journalists into what was essentially, by campaign's end, an extended publicity department.
0	A movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self... this Orgasm (won't be an) exceedingly memorable one for most people.
1	Fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense.
0	This is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live.
0	But mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film, which is often preachy and poorly acted.
1	At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future.
0	Lookin' for sin, American-style?
0	It drowns in sap.
0	Laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany.
0	Interminably bleak, to say nothing of boring.
0	Believability wasn't one of the film's virtues.
1	Filled with Alexandre Desplat's haunting and sublime music, the movie completely transfixes the audience.
1	The Four Feathers is definitely horse feathers, but if you go in knowing that, you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox.
0	The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago, and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing.
1	Steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic.
0	... del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy.
1	This filmed Tosca -- not the first, by the way -- is a pretty good job, if it's filmed Tosca that you want.
1	Features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film.
1	A journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship.
0	Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar.
0	Though an important political documentary, this does not really make the case the Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal.
0	Swims in mediocrity, sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then.
1	Although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking, the characters make Italian for Beginners worth the journey
0	Even fans of Ismail Merchant's work, I suspect, would have a hard time sitting through this one.
0	The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous, the acting is robotically italicized, and truth-in-advertising hounds take note: There's very little hustling on view.
0	What's worse is that Pelosi knows it.
0	A "Home Alone" film that is staged like "Rosemary's Baby," but is not as well-conceived as either of those films.
0	Although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted, conjures a Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America.
0	Everything about Girls Can't Swim, even its passages of sensitive observation, feels secondhand, familiar -- and not in a good way.
1	Brian Tufano's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special.
1	It is definitely worth seeing.
1	A heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' hearts.
0	Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002.
1	a bilingual charmer, just like the woman who inspired it
1	Allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal.
1	Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from David's point of view.
1	Both lead performances are Oscar-size.
1	As a good old-fashioned adventure for kids, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a winner.
0	It's super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid.
0	All the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition.
1	Elaborate special effects take centre screen, so that the human story is pushed to one side.
1	The film is ... determined to treat its characters, weak and strong, as fallible human beings, not caricatures, and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation.
0	I found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays.
1	Too daft by half ... but supremely good natured.
0	Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor's preposterous Titus, the eye candy here lacks considerable brio.
1	The film is hard to dismiss -- moody, thoughtful, and lit by flashes of mordant humor.
1	The first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year!
0	...silly humbuggery...
0	Predecessors The Mummy and The Mummy Returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to The Scorpion King.

1

Malcolm McDowell is cool.

0

The movie wavers between Hallmark card sentimentality and goofy, life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial.

1

As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle, Sex with Strangers is a success.

0

A reality-snubbing hodgepodge.

0

(A) slummer.

0

It's a big idea, but the film itself is small and shriveled.

1

An engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character.

1

Sayles has a knack for casting, often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors.

0

For all its violence, the movie is remarkably dull with only Caine making much of an impression.

1

This is a finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.

1

At the end, when the now computerized Yoda finally reveals his martial artistry, the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside.

1

Ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent years.

0

...a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone.

0

Even if it made its original release date last fall, it would've reeked of a been-there, done-that sameness.

0

Unfortunately, it's also not very good.

1

The most wondrous love story in years, it is a great film.

0

Too much power, not enough puff.

0

Despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from Kathryn Bigelow, The Weight of Water is oppressively heavy.

1

Finally, the French-produced "Read My Lips" is a movie that understands characters must come first.

1

Even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene, in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia, it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon.

0

A film which presses familiar Herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction, when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised.

1

The rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based.

0

Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem to hit Sascha.

1

(Dong) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view, and he does such a good job of it that Family Fundamentals gets you riled up.

0

once she lets her love depraved leads meet, (Denis') story becomes a hopeless, unsatisfying muddle

0

Nothing too deep or substantial.

0

But what is missing from it all is a moral.

1

Splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity.

0

Obvious, obnoxious and didactic burlesque.

1

It's definitely a step in the right direction.

0

Vaguely interesting, but it's just too too much.

1

The film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama, but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from Paul's perspective.

1

This one is a few bits funnier than Malle's dud, if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks.

1

The writing is clever and the cast is appealing.

1

Although commentary on Nachtwey is provided ... it's the image that really tells the tale.

0

A nearly 21/2 hours, the film is way too indulgent.

0

...unlikable, uninteresting, unfunny, and completely, utterly inept.

1

Some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious, but restrained and subtle storytelling, and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat.

1

But the talented cast alone will keep you watching, as will the fight scenes.

1

Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese.

1

Jeffrey Tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy.

1

An overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget, video-shot, debut indie effort.

0

A clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary, naturalistic tone of the film ...

0

'Christian Bale's Quinn (is) a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like Gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent.'

0

I'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about.

1

It's a scorcher.

0

A real snooze.

1

Like its title character, this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.

0

The kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored, cheering the pratfalls but little else; their parents, wise folks that they are, read books.

0

Partly a schmaltzy, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless.

0

For its 100 minutes running time, you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen.

1

A chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president, but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten, cynical journalists into what was essentially, by campaign's end, an extended publicity department.

0

A movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self... this Orgasm (won't be an) exceedingly memorable one for most people.

1

Fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense.

0

This is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live.

0

But mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film, which is often preachy and poorly acted.

1

At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future.

0

Lookin' for sin, American-style?

0

It drowns in sap.

0

Laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany.

0

Interminably bleak, to say nothing of boring.

0

Believability wasn't one of the film's virtues.

1

Filled with Alexandre Desplat's haunting and sublime music, the movie completely transfixes the audience.

1

The Four Feathers is definitely horse feathers, but if you go in knowing that, you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox.

0

The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago, and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing.

1

Steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic.

0

... del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy.

1

This filmed Tosca -- not the first, by the way -- is a pretty good job, if it's filmed Tosca that you want.

1

Features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film.

1

A journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship.

0

Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar.

0

Though an important political documentary, this does not really make the case the Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal.

0

Swims in mediocrity, sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then.

1

Although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking, the characters make Italian for Beginners worth the journey

0

Even fans of Ismail Merchant's work, I suspect, would have a hard time sitting through this one.

0

The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous, the acting is robotically italicized, and truth-in-advertising hounds take note: There's very little hustling on view.

0

What's worse is that Pelosi knows it.

0

A "Home Alone" film that is staged like "Rosemary's Baby," but is not as well-conceived as either of those films.

0

Although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted, conjures a Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America.

0

Everything about Girls Can't Swim, even its passages of sensitive observation, feels secondhand, familiar -- and not in a good way.

1

Brian Tufano's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special.

1

It is definitely worth seeing.

1

A heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' hearts.

0

Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002.

1

a bilingual charmer, just like the woman who inspired it

1

Allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal.

1

Everybody loves a David and Goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from David's point of view.

1

Both lead performances are Oscar-size.

1

As a good old-fashioned adventure for kids, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a winner.

0

It's super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid.

0

All the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition.

1

Elaborate special effects take centre screen, so that the human story is pushed to one side.

1

The film is ... determined to treat its characters, weak and strong, as fallible human beings, not caricatures, and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation.

0

I found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays.

1

Too daft by half ... but supremely good natured.

0

Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor's preposterous Titus, the eye candy here lacks considerable brio.

1

The film is hard to dismiss -- moody, thoughtful, and lit by flashes of mordant humor.

1

The first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year!

0

...silly humbuggery...

0

Predecessors The Mummy and The Mummy Returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to The Scorpion King.