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1 | Although it lacks the detail of the book, the film does pack some serious suspense. |
1 | (Cuarón has) created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures: the road movie, the coming-of-age movie, and the teenage sex comedy. |
0 | And second, what's with all the shooting? |
0 | Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse. |
0 | Shrewd but pointless. |
1 | The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving, and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy, pretty and gifted, it really won my heart. |
1 | Proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books, they can't go wrong. |
1 | ... wise and elegiac ... |
1 | Though filmed partly in Canada, Paid in Full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the Reagan years. |
0 | Not counting a few gross-out comedies I've been trying to forget, this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes. |
0 | All of the elements are in place for a great film noir, but director George Hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat. |
1 | The overall fabric is hypnotic, and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy. |
0 | Friday After Next is a lot more bluster than bite. |
0 | Opera on film is never satisfactory. |
1 | Nicole Holofcenter, the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully. |
0 | But, like Silence, it's a movie that gets under your skin. |
0 | Gooding and Coburn are both Oscar winners, a fact which, as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through Snow Dogs, seems inconceivable. |
0 | Loud, silly, stupid and pointless. |
1 | While it's nothing we haven't seen before from Murphy, I Spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort. |
0 | McTiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious. |
0 | If you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film, you'll need a stronger stomach than us. |
0 | An average B-movie with no aspirations to be anything more. |
0 | A film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen. |
0 | The movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary, and on both sides it falls short. |
0 | Only masochistic moviegoers need apply. |
0 | Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo, double-pistoled, ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic? |
1 | Like Shrek, Spirit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children, because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world. |
0 | Statham employs an accent that I think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass American but sometimes just lapses into unhidden British. |
0 | A yawn-provoking little farm melodrama. |
0 | For all its shoot-outs, fistfights, and car chases, this movie is a phlegmatic bore, so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film The Sum of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck, seem downright Hitchcockian. |
0 | Kicks off with an inauspicious premise, mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper. |
1 | One of the greatest films I've ever seen. |
0 | Feels strangely hollow at its emotional core. |
0 | It gets old quickly. |
0 | Feels less like a change in (Herzog's) personal policy than a half-hearted fluke. |
1 | Exudes the fizz of a Busby Berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza. |
1 | Good performances keep it from being a total rehash. |
1 | Tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here. |
0 | He thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject. |
0 | It all starts to smack of a Hallmark Hall of Fame, with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television. |
1 | Some Body will take you places you haven't been, and also places you have. |
0 | Hollywood Ending just isn't very funny. |
1 | A jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of Japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage. |
1 | But Kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast, and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie, no matter who runs them. |
1 | 'Drumline' shows a level of young, Black manhood that is funny, touching, smart and complicated. |
0 | Upper Teens may get cynical. |
1 | Welles groupie/scholar Peter Bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant William Randolph Hearst. |
1 | The most brilliant and brutal UK crime film since Jack Carter went back to Newcastle, the first half of Gangster No. 1 drips with style and, at times, blood. |
0 | It might not be 1970s animation, but everything else about it is straight from the Saturday morning cartoons – a retread story, bad writing, and the same old silliness. |
1 | Birthday Girl lucks out with Chaplin and Kidman, who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story, but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns. |
1 | Stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by Dustin Hoffman that is revelatory. |
1 | It is a likable story, told with competence. |
0 | A gushy episode of "M*A*S*H" only this time from an Asian perspective. |
0 | Bread, My Sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it. |
1 | a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite. |
0 | You'll forget about it by Monday, though, and if they're old enough to have developed some taste, so will your kids. |
1 | A good thriller. |
0 | You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time. |
0 | It's hard to imagine any recent film, independent or otherwise, that makes as much of a mess as this one. |
0 | Rumor, a muddled drama about coming to terms with death, feels impersonal, almost generic. |
0 | works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making |
1 | There's nothing like love to give a movie a B-12 shot, and CQ shimmers with it. |
1 | While not for every taste, this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise, too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy. |
0 | The movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it. |
0 | The characters are based on stock clichés, and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility. |
0 | It's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars |
1 | ...an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle. |
0 | With or without ballast tanks, K-19 sinks to a Harrison Ford low. |
1 | Mr. Koshashvili is a director to watch. |
1 | About as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come. |
1 | But on the whole, you're gonna like this movie. |
0 | We can tell what it is supposed to be, but can't really call it a work of art. |
1 | The art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed, and Kurys' direction is clever and insightful. |
1 | The film is delicately narrated by Martin Landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by Dana Janklowicz-Mann. |
0 | Sad nonsense, this. |
0 | Every note rings false. |
1 | The evocative imagery and gentle, lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear. |
1 | Succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture. |
1 | Plunges you into a reality that is, more often then not, difficult and sad, and then, without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality, transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision. |
1 | An immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music. |
0 | The action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup, while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if Kaos hadn't blown them all up. |
1 | Howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a Buñuel retrospective. |
0 | Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants. |
1 | Even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by heart, you will enjoy seeing how both evolve, and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st Century. |
1 | Inherently caustic and oddly whimsical, the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss. |
0 | Like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100. |
1 | It's better than The Phantom Menace. |
1 | An effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work. |
1 | Broomfield is energized by Volletta Wallace's maternal fury, her fearlessness, and because of that, his film crackles. |
1 | A fiercely clever and subtle film, capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries. |
1 | This kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes Shanghai Ghetto move beyond a good, dry, reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors. |
0 | Formulaic to the 51st power, more like. |
0 | When your subject is illusion versus reality, shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real? |
0 | The results are far more alienating than involving. |
0 | These characters become wearisome. |
1 | It finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice. |
0 | I could have used my two hours better watching Being John Malkovich again. |
0 | Comes across as a relic from a bygone era, and its convolutions...feel silly rather than plausible. |
0 | The movie is as padded as Allen's jelly belly. |
0 | The story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin. |
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