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1 | Nice piece of work. |
0 | The events of the film are just so WEIRD that I honestly never knew what the hell was coming next. |
0 | Episode II-- Attack of the Clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight. |
1 | This is a dark, gritty, sometimes funny little gem. |
0 | Though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction, the drama feels rigged and sluggish. |
0 | Noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping, dramatic, Hollywood moments to keep us |
1 | What emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice. |
1 | The 3-D vistas from orbit, with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe, are stanzas of breathtaking, awe-inspiring visual poetry. |
0 | Cacoyannis' vision is far less mature, interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts. |
1 | Jackie Chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing. |
1 | (Gayton's script) telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience. |
1 | I know I shouldn't have laughed, but hey, those farts got to my inner nine-year-old. |
0 | ...has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor -- but it's a rushed, slapdash, sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity. |
1 | There is a general air of exuberance in All About The Benjamins that's hard to resist. |
0 | Plays like one of those conversations that Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons" has. |
0 | Dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting, and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation. |
1 | This charming but slight tale has warmth, wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed. |
0 | The movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves. |
1 | delightfully rendered |
0 | Shows that Jackie Chan is getting older, and that's something I would rather live in denial about |
1 | Many insightful moments. |
0 | Made to be Jaglomized is the Cannes Film Festival, the annual Riviera spree of flesh, buzz, blab and money. |
1 | The performances are immaculate, with Roussillon providing comic relief. |
0 | Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally, and log on to something more user-friendly. |
1 | Director Claude Chabrol has become the master of innuendo. |
1 | As comedic spotlights go, Notorious C.H.O. hits all the verbal marks it should. |
0 | (Tries) to parody a genre that's already a joke in the United States. |
0 | They were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening, afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn. |
1 | Especially give credit to Affleck. |
0 | A fragile framework upon which to hang broad, mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming. |
1 | And it marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today. |
0 | This picture is murder by numbers, and as easy to be bored by as your ABC's, despite a few whopping shootouts. |
0 | Though Jones and Snipes are enthralling, the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché. |
1 | According to Wendigo, 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves. |
0 | Even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable, shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture. |
1 | It is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters. |
0 | A gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional, unlikable characters and hackneyed, threadbare comic setups. |
1 | A vibrant, colorful, semimusical rendition. |
1 | But as you watch the movie, you're too interested to care. |
0 | A mediocre exercise in target demographics, unaware that it's the butt of its own joke. |
0 | Thumbs down. |
1 | While the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times, it's awfully entertaining to watch. |
0 | At a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is, Collateral Damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture. |
0 | Upper West Sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute. |
1 | As a kind of colorful, dramatized PBS program, Frida gets the job done. |
0 | An uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on Philip K. Dick stories. |
1 | (Shyamalan) turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count. |
0 | Totally overwrought, deeply biased, and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are The Greatest Musicians of All Time. |
1 | There's so much to look at in Metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles. |
0 | Woody Allen used to ridicule movies like Hollywood Ending. |
1 | Lightweight but appealing. |
0 | There is nothing redeeming about this movie. |
0 | What's infuriating about Full Frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense. |
1 | The movie's seams may show...but Pellington gives "Mothman" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling. |
1 | MacDowell ... gives give a solid, anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done. |
1 | Director Paul Cox's unorthodox, abstract approach to visualizing Nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding. |
1 | The sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in IMAX dimensions, as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins. |
1 | The unique niche of self-critical, behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Kaufman has carved from Orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality. |
1 | The stunt work is top-notch; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny. |
0 | Lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap, graceless, hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s. |
1 | A fine effort, an interesting topic, some intriguing characters and a sad ending. |
0 | "...something appears to have been lost in the translation this time. |
1 | Featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. |
0 | Hypnotically dull, relentlessly downbeat, laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry. |
1 | Everything about The Quiet American is good, except its timing. |
1 | It's a smartly directed, grown-up film of ideas. |
1 | The Bourne Identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is, but director Doug Liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood. |
0 | Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy, the film becomes predictably conventional. |
1 | A touching, small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community. |
0 | The gifted Crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself, and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him. |
0 | An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art. |
0 | Unless you're a fanatic, the best advice is: 'Scooby' don't. |
1 | Nicole Kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year, which means that Birthday Girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while. |
1 | And the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him. |
1 | There's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance. |
1 | The script is high on squaddie banter, low on shocks. |
0 | Go back to sleep. |
0 | This movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in Retard 101. |
0 | It's as if a bored Cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream: "Got AIDS yet?" |
1 | Secret Ballot is a funny, puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving. |
0 | A visionary marvel, but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this. |
0 | Nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose, poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy. |
1 | One of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made. |
0 | This low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the Farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time. |
1 | Happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music. |
0 | Fails as a dystopian movie, as a retooling of Fahrenheit 451, and even as a rip-off of The Matrix. |
1 | Whatever one makes of its political edge, this is beautiful filmmaking from one of French cinema's master craftsmen. |
1 | Jagger, Stoppard and director Michael Apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride. |
0 | Banal and predictable. |
0 | Takes a clunky TV-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated Irish playwright, poet and drinker. |
0 | The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls. |
1 | Best of all is Garcia, who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man. |
0 | It doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis, namely, that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain. |
0 | Scooby-Doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly, Nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick. |
0 | A dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any Hollywood fluff. |
0 | Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters, the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor, ethnic slurs. |
1 | "The best Disney movie since the Lion King" |
1 | Best indie of the year, so far. |
0 | Feels less like a cousin to Blade Runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the Escape From New York series. |
0 | It jumps around with little logic or continuity, presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular, anciently demanding métier. |
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