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by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around .

arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year

culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf .

vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico 's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all .

in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius .

... you can be forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already .

even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm .

but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it 's about a very human one .

but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old .

if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo .

`` punch-drunk love '' is a little like a chocolate milk moustache ...

more intimate than spectacular , e.t. is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades .

i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love ` real ' .

wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture .

the comedy makes social commentary more palatable .

a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers .

a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery .

while howard 's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast .

the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication .

the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm .

except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made .

an excellent sequel .

it 's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team .

in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz .

-lrb- carvey 's -rrb- characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark .

rashomon-for-dipsticks tale .

there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman 's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film .

it 's splash without the jokes .

while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot .

you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain .

a coming-of-age movie that hollywood would n't have the guts to make .

the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .

others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that ` the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating .

the main problem being that it 's only a peek .

slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious .

... a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice 's second installment of her vampire chronicles .

`` what really happened ? ''

it 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring .

provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending .

director nancy savoca 's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could .

despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film .

the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it 's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia .

big time .

... the first 2\/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices -lrb- cool visual backmasking -rrb- , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ...

rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash .

has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy ca n't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original .

that is because - damn it !

so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt .

unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic .

swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell .

dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery .

as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he 's neglected over the years .

bang !

a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart .

it 's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie .

the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst 's forced avuncular chortles .

the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism .

just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people .

a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted .

brisk hack job .

the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies ... but the film suffers from its own difficulties .

national lampoon 's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year 's version of tomcats .

well , it 's not as pathetic as the animal .

thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer .

qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere .

though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous .

if sinise 's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over .

miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary .

at the film 's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli .

this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton 's ever-watchful gaze -- and it 's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one .

as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut dahmer -lrb- jeremy renner -rrb- and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .

moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy .

-lrb- cuarón has -rrb- created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy .

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 .

proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they ca n't go wrong .

... wise and elegiac ...

well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man 's triumph of will into everyman 's romance comedy .

... creates a visceral sense of its characters ' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above ... what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology .

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 .

the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr. mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy .

there 's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it 's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted .

a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps .

loud , silly , stupid and pointless .

while it 's nothing we have n't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it 's more than a worthwhile effort .

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 .

a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama .

whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ?

one of the greatest films i 've ever seen .

feels strangely hollow at its emotional core .

watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode .

it 's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it 's well worth a rental .

like a poor man 's you can count on me

exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza .

an uplifting , largely bogus story .

a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who 's the scariest of sadists .

while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it 's far from being this generation 's animal house .

a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage .

` drumline ' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated .

it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied .

a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds .