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1 | Seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior, as Happiness was... Hence, Storytelling is far more appealing. |
1 | Alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience. |
0 | True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at. |
1 | With exquisite craftsmanship ... Olivier Assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois French society. |
1 | A hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention, a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of Claude Chabrol. |
0 | The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke's artistic aspirations, but he hasn't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul. |
0 | Grant is certainly amusing, but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length |
1 | Definitely in the guilty pleasure B-movie category, Reign of Fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable. |
0 | It's not just the vampires that are damned in Queen of the Damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate. |
1 | As simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine. |
0 | Extremely bad. |
0 | Although Disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure, it feels more forced than usual. |
1 | Deserves a place of honor next to Nanook as a landmark in film history. |
0 | What's missing in Murder by Numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour. |
0 | Any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director Jon Purdy's sledgehammer sap. |
0 | It's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay. |
1 | Cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most. |
1 | It made me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters. |
1 | Argento, at only 26, brings a youthful, out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project, as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock. |
1 | As refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream. |
1 | ... a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping, in one way or another, with life's endgame. |
1 | Beautifully directed and convincingly acted. |
1 | It is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual |
0 | Ritchie's film is easier to swallow than Wertmuller's polemical allegory, but it's self-defeatingly decorous. |
1 | The charm of the first movie is still there, and the story feels like the logical, unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids. |
0 | Purports to be a Hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging. |
1 | Any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things. |
1 | An undeniably gorgeous, terminally smitten document of a troubadour, his acolytes, and the triumph of his band. |
0 | Halfway through the movie, the humor dwindles. |
1 | The magic (and original running time) of ace Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away survives intact in BV's re-voiced version. |
1 | Michael Moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and he's got as potent a topic as ever here. |
1 | Frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who, in spite of all that he's witnessed, remains surprisingly idealistic, and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him. |
1 | Predictable and cloying, though Brown Sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle. |
0 | Sadly, though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear, they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction. |
0 | Such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show. |
1 | A modest masterpiece. |
1 | Neil Burger here succeeded in ... making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present. |
1 | And thanks to Kline's superbly nuanced performance, that pondering is highly pleasurable. |
1 | It's still a comic book, but Maguire makes it a comic book with soul. |
1 | Shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement, but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience. |
0 | Seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool, and it's a sad, sick sight. |
1 | Takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze. |
0 | But it doesn't leave you with much. |
1 | The trick when watching Godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics, savor the pleasure of his sounds and images, and ponder the historical, philosophical, and ethical issues that intersect with them. |
1 | Broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary. |
0 | As the Mediterranean sparkles, 'Swept Away' sinks. |
0 | Two-bit potboiler. |
1 | A poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature. |
1 | A smart, provocative drama that does the nearly impossible: It gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil, monstrous lunatic. |
0 | At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance. |
0 | It's just rather leaden and dull. |
0 | Problem is, we have no idea what in creation is going on. |
0 | The movie is a mess from start to finish. |
1 | Its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch. |
1 | One of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever. |
0 | But the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass. |
1 | A burst of color, music, and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at. |
1 | The best animated feature to hit theaters since Beauty and the Beast 11 years ago. |
0 | The only camouflage Carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public, to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers. |
0 | Scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company. |
1 | A beautifully observed character piece. |
1 | Compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen, RunTelDat is something of a triumph. |
0 | As plain and pedestrian as catsup-- |
1 | Some people march to the beat of a different drum, and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in, this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options. |
1 | That Jack Nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft, but to his legend. |
1 | With each of her three protagonists, Miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life, out of a deep-seated, emotional need, is about to turn onto a different path. |
1 | A college story that works even without vulgarity, sex scenes, and cussing! |
0 | A loquacious and dreary piece of business. |
0 | Behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy, brawny and lyrical in the best Irish sense -- but Sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance. |
0 | A rather tired exercise in nostalgia. |
0 | 'Linklater fans, or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project...' |
0 | There's little to recommend Snow Dogs, unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity. |
0 | One lousy movie. |
0 | It's such a mechanical endeavor (that) it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it. |
0 | A Blair Witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera, with passable performances from everyone in the cast. |
0 | Until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity. |
0 | Abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed. |
0 | Needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism. |
1 | With the prospect of films like Kangaroo Jack about to burst across America's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like The Hours as an alternative. |
0 | Where This was lazy but enjoyable, a formula comedy redeemed by its stars, That is even lazier and far less enjoyable. |
1 | A highly watchable, giggly little story with a sweet edge to it. |
1 | Skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise. |
0 | (Soderbergh) tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence, and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness. |
1 | Writer-director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured. |
0 | The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea. |
0 | Each story is built on a potentially interesting idea, but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting, while the third feels limited by its short running time. |
1 | Sweetly sexy, funny and touching. |
1 | Like all of Egoyan's work, Ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious. |
1 | Even if Invincible is not quite the career peak that The Pianist is for Roman Polanski, it demonstrates that Werner Herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse, marvelously twisted shapes history has taken. |
0 | The film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture. |
0 | This is a movie that starts out like Heathers, then becomes Bring it On, then becomes unwatchable. |
1 | It's a cool event for the whole family. |
0 | Time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool "Clockstoppers," but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life. |
1 | A beautiful, entertaining two hours. |
0 | Though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers, it's exploitive without being insightful. |
0 | Too long, and larded with exposition, this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community. |
1 | Another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre. |
1 | The Chateau belongs to Rudd, whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting French malapropisms ... is a nonstop hoot. |
1 | The story ... is inspiring, ironic, and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is. |
0 | Love may have been in the air onscreen, but I certainly wasn't feeling any of it. |
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