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a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship .

it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives .

a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing .

not kids , who do n't need the lesson in repugnance .

in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase .

if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it .

it 's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost .

the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers do n't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types .

made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because -lrb- solondz 's -rrb- cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt .

kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other .

it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .

a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists .

... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .

director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it 's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff .

in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works .

melodrama with a message .

a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire .

10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away .

a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman 's point-of-view .

like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .

`` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling .

a no-holds-barred cinematic treat .

your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make .

plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year .

adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary .

canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city .

go for la salle 's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script .

was i scared ?

fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten

tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .

a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma .

shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .

just watch bettany strut his stuff .

it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza .

jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used .

a very charming and funny movie .

if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again .

you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that .

nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .

a lifetime movie about men .

near the end takes on a whole other meaning .

adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel .

he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty .

her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost .

snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good .

then nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all .

twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task .

offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere .

but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging .

a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices .

decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like .

an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .

i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen .

twenty years after its first release , e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career .

more of a career curio than a major work .

suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness .

talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .

beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .

the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy .

maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor .

humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way .

if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there .

other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst .

this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be .

gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .

when the heroes were actually under 40 ?

if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like .

the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits .

there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie .

a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause .

a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .

be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense .

serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .

both heartbreaking and heartwarming ... just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving .

the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks .

true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation .

degenerates into hogwash .

absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel .

sex with strangers is fascinating ...

smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong ... it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera .

a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ...

not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending .

leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb .

the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness .

the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script .

this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain .

it 's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent .

it 's obvious -lrb- je-gyu is -rrb- trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom .

delight your senses and crash this wedding !

the best thing i can say about this film is that i ca n't wait to see what the director does next .

the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo .

a true-blue delight .

about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful .

it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors .

what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits .

an enjoyable experience .

very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all .

the entire movie is in need of a scented bath .

it shares the first two films ' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between .

director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims .