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1 | Rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling Hollywood style--casting excellent Latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue. |
1 | Takashi Miike keeps pushing the envelope: Ichi the Killer |
0 | More likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat. |
0 | Fairly run-of-the-mill. |
1 | So could young romantics out on a date. |
1 | Despite its flaws ... Belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn. |
0 | The secrets of time travel will have been discovered, indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this piece of crap again. |
0 | The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy. |
0 | Though it's not very well shot or composed or edited, the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal, the film shatters you in waves. |
1 | Satin Rouge is not a new, or inventive, journey, but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional, average, middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity. |
0 | Due to stodgy, soap opera-ish dialogue, the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a TelePrompTer. |
0 | It's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out, like character development and coherence. |
1 | A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture. |
1 | Noyce has worked wonders with the material. |
0 | A sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama. |
0 | No thanks. |
1 | Despite the predictable parent vs. child coming-of-age theme, first-class, natural acting and a look at "the real Americans" make this a charmer. |
1 | Delia, Greta, and Paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year. |
0 | Action - mechanical. |
0 | Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing, moldering pile of, well, extreme stunt pictures. |
0 | This would have been better than the fiction it has concocted, and there still could have been room for the war scenes. |
0 | It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit. |
0 | While the production details are lavish, film has little insight into the historical period and its artists, particularly in how Sand developed a notorious reputation. |
1 | Although Olivier Assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems, at times, padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation ... its three-hour running time plays closer to two. |
1 | The moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended. |
0 | A sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions. |
1 | Overall, it's a very entertaining, thought-provoking film with a simple message: God is love. |
0 | Some movies were made for the big screen, some for the small screen, and some, like Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, were made for the palm screen. |
1 | a confident, richly acted, emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film |
1 | LaBute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering. |
0 | The whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as Very Important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a Hollywood product. |
0 | An inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength. |
1 | ...a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations. |
1 | As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games. |
1 | The story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution. |
0 | The action clichés just pile up. |
0 | Not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream, it also represents glossy Hollywood at its laziest. |
1 | A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them. |
1 | If ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter, this is it. |
1 | You may be captivated, as I was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why Paul Thomas Anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which Adam Sandler will probably ever appear. |
1 | "Brown Sugar" admirably aspires to be more than another "Best Man" clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film. |
1 | Highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast, it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring Ice-T in a major role. |
1 | Gently humorous and touching. |
0 | Puportedly "Based on True Events," a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is "Based on a True Story" with a straight face. |
0 | Vulgar is too optimistic a title. |
0 | "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is a big time stinker. |
1 | Visually captivating. |
1 | As each of them searches for their place in the world, Miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking, flawed humanity. |
0 | Writer-director Stephen Gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the English call 'too clever by half.' |
0 | For the future, one hopes Mr. Plympton will find room for one more member of his little band, a professional screenwriter. |
1 | The story plays out slowly, but the characters are intriguing and realistic. |
1 | Very predictable but still entertaining |
0 | If you're not a fan, it might be like trying to eat Brussels sprouts. |
1 | has far more energy, wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a "2" at the end of its title. |
1 | Mr. Deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple, sweet and romantic comedy. |
0 | It all seemed wasted like DeNiro's once promising career and the once grand Long Beach boardwalk. |
1 | Its gentle, touching story creeps into your heart. |
1 | Armed with a game supporting cast, from the pitch-perfect Forster to the always hilarious Meara and Levy, Like Mike shoots and scores, doing its namesake proud. |
1 | ... works on some levels and is certainly worth seeing at least once. |
0 | A potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted. |
1 | A small gem from Belgium. |
1 | The characters are complex and quirky, but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life. |
1 | Worth a look as a curiosity. |
0 | If you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry, this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then. |
0 | Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson have a cute partnership in I Spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good. |
1 | Short and sweet, but also more than anything else slight... Tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations. |
1 | Poignant and delicately complex. |
1 | And we don't avert our eyes for a moment. |
1 | Simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular New Yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy. |
1 | ...could easily be called the best Korean film of 2002. |
0 | The title, alone, should scare any sane person away. |
0 | For all the time we spend with these people, we never really get inside of them. |
1 | It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. |
0 | The plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours. |
1 | The film is a hoot, and is just as good, if not better than much of what's on Saturday morning TV especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand. |
1 | The ending feels at odds with the rest of the film. |
1 | In the end there is one word that best describes this film: honest. |
0 | The movie barely makes sense, with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks. |
1 | It's a quirky, off-beat project. |
1 | If you can get past the taboo subject matter, it will be well worth your time. |
1 | Coy but exhilarating, with really solid performances by Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes. |
1 | Starts slowly, but Adrien Brody – in the title role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying. |
0 | Feeble comedy. |
0 | No amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas. |
0 | ...the good and different idea (of middle-aged romance) is not handled well and, except for the fine star performances, there is little else to recommend "Never Again." |
0 | Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility. |
0 | Sadly, as Blood Work proves, that was a long, long time ago. |
1 | The performers are so spot on, it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles. |
0 | The first mistake, I suspect, is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brilliant college student--where's Pauly Shore as the rocket scientist? |
1 | Wise and deadpan humorous. |
0 | Twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career, Clint Eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him. |
0 | Boring and meandering. |
0 | While certainly more naturalistic than its Australian counterpart, Amari's film falls short in building the drama of Lilia's journey. |
0 | Make Chan's action sequences boring. |
0 | Simply put, there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn. |
0 | Proves a lovely trifle that, unfortunately, is a little too in love with its own cuteness. |
0 | But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless. |
1 | An energizing, intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching (or turntablism) in particular. |
1 | Screenwriter Dan Schneider and director Shawn Levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite. |
1 | (Ramsay) visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art, music and metaphor. |
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