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0 | An imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie. |
1 | This real-life Hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies Hollywood produces. |
1 | Waiting for Godard can be fruitful: 'In Praise of Love' is the director's epitaph for himself. |
1 | It's all about Anakin ... and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and, of course, special effect. |
0 | Solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining. |
0 | ...pitiful, slapdash disaster. |
0 | The crap continues. |
1 | While the story's undeniably hard to follow, Iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce. |
0 | It's a terrible movie in every regard, and utterly painful to watch. |
0 | This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy. |
1 | A rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense, intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies, plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics. |
1 | A terrific B movie -- in fact, the best in recent memory. |
0 | Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making. |
1 | I liked About Schmidt a lot, but I have a feeling that I would have liked it much more if Harry & Tonto never existed. |
0 | What starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film. |
1 | You may leave the theater with more questions than answers, but darned if your toes won't still be tapping. |
0 | Nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it, from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute, haphazard theatrical release. |
0 | as in aimless, arduous, and arbitrary. |
1 | Aside from Rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view, The Lady and the Duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art. |
1 | A fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists. |
0 | This is a poster movie, a mediocre tribute to films like Them! |
0 | There is no solace here, no entertainment value, merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us. |
1 | The graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn Croatia is uncomfortably timely, relevant, and sickeningly real. |
1 | The ingenious construction (adapted by David Hare from Michael Cunningham's novel) constantly flows forwards and back, weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism |
0 | The most horrific movie experience I've had since "Can't Stop The Music." |
1 | But it also has many of the things that made the first one charming. |
1 | Weaver and LaPaglia are both excellent, in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk. |
1 | It's never laugh-out-loud funny, but it is frequently amusing. |
1 | A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment.' |
1 | Quite simply, a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to. |
1 | Not to mention absolutely refreshed. |
1 | You can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored ... audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter. |
1 | Arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation. |
1 | There's no reason to miss Interview with the Assassin |
1 | I like this movie a lot. |
0 | Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire. |
1 | Close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air. |
0 | While the transgressive trappings (especially the frank sex scenes) ensure that the film is never dull, Rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative. |
0 | Blue Crush has all the trappings of an energetic, extreme-sports adventure, but ends up more of a creaky "Pretty Woman" retread, with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought. |
1 | A man leaving the screening said the film was better than Saving Private Ryan. |
1 | (A) strong piece of work. |
1 | Daring and beautifully made. |
1 | A well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity. |
0 | ...hits every cliche we've come to expect, including the assumption that "crazy" people are innocent, childlike and inherently funny. |
1 | Slight but enjoyable documentary. |
0 | Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights grows on you -- like a rash. |
1 | When compared to the usual, more somber festival entries, Davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart, smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic. |
0 | Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try. |
0 | Not even Solondz's thirst for controversy, sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it. |
0 | And in a sense, that's a liability. |
0 | The romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be. |
1 | Hugh Grant, who has a good line in charm, has never been more charming than in About a Boy. |
1 | Poignant and funny. |
1 | This is pure, exciting moviemaking. |
0 | Never having seen the first two films in the series, I can't compare Friday After Next to them, but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days. |
0 | A straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality. |
1 | The film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled. |
1 | There are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away. |
1 | A low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord. |
1 | One of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself, namely, an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then. |
1 | An old-fashioned scary movie, one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts. |
1 | There's an energy to Y Tu Mamá También. |
0 | The problem with the film is whether these ambitions, laudable in themselves, justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. |
0 | The whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years. |
0 | Not even Steven Spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie. |
1 | Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers. |
0 | The Paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final (restored) third...emotionally belittle a cinema classic. |
1 | If you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick, you can do no wrong with Jason X. |
1 | All in all, an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press, especially ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forced to follow. |
0 | In the not-too-distant future, movies like Ghost Ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds. |
1 | Ryan Gosling is, in a word, brilliant as the conflicted Daniel. |
0 | I don't think so. |
0 | At best this is a film for the under-7 crowd. |
1 | A fresh, entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles. |
1 | Poetry in motion captured on film. |
0 | Parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for Ram Dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic. |
0 | The script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish. |
0 | Almost peerlessly unsettling. |
0 | Despite Auteuil's performance, it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road, where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug. |
1 | (Ferrera) has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen. |
1 | A solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude. |
1 | Flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others, 65-year-old Jack Nicholson could be looking at his 12th Oscar nomination by proving that he's now, more than ever, choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary. |
0 | While this one gets off with a good natured warning, future Lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter |
1 | The hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the Sally Jesse Raphael atmosphere of films like Philadelphia and American Beauty. |
0 | Daughter From Danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds. |
1 | If not a home run, then at least a solid base hit. |
1 | It's a fine, old-fashioned-movie movie, which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance. |
1 | What it lacks in substance it makes up for in heart. |
1 | Carrying off a spot-on Scottish burr, Duvall (also a producer) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper. |
1 | There are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made A Walk to Remember a niche hit. |
0 | Suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled. |
1 | The picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed. |
1 | Walter Hill's Undisputed is like a 1940s Warner Bros. |
0 | Parents beware; this is downright movie penance. |
0 | Whatever satire Lucky Break was aiming for, it certainly got lost in the "soon-to-be-forgettable" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile. |
1 | Fred Schepisi's tale of four Englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point. |
0 | There's no energy. |
0 | Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner. |
1 | Kosminsky ... puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting. |
1 | A well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars. |
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