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an uninspired preachy and clichéd war film .

crikey indeed .

el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors .

a processed comedy chop suey .

rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 .

spy-vs .

part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness .

sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness .

more of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller .

its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace past tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling .

great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience .

but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .

the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it 's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is .

the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines .

an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .

manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state .

what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers .

serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it .

what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .

this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie .

a winning and wildly fascinating work .

blue crush is so prolonged and boring it is n't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be .

for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own .

-lrb- fincher 's -rrb- camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller .

but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold .

there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i would n't be interested in knowing any of them personally .

some fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being .

and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence 's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest .

it 's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought .

it 's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler 's comic taste may find it uninteresting .

things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content .

with freeman and judd , i 'll at least remember their characters .

a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not .

drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth .

there 's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is

the cast comes through even when the movie does n't .

mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life

it 's all entertaining enough , but do n't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper .

contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin .

transforms one of -lrb- shakespeare 's -rrb- deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy .

successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie .

a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies .

an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication .

even better than the first one !

i ca n't recommend it .

poor ben bratt could n't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions .

more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone who 's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director 's previous films .

allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today .

by-the-numbers yarn .

on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .

those who trek to the ` plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves .

an ambitious ` what if ? '

when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there 's something there .

nothing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me .

it 's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring .

a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film .

the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective .

even if you 've seen `` stomp '' -lrb- the stage show -rrb- , you still have to see this !

it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons ever has .

despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age .

this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it 's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times .

despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break .

while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that 's more interested in asking questions than in answering them .

the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations .

while not all that bad of a movie , it 's nowhere near as good as the original .

as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism .

its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff .

a less-than-thrilling thriller .

would 've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film 's predictable denouement .

the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment .

some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since `` saving private ryan '' have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war .

morton deserves an oscar nomination .

you 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery .

by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .

it 's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey .

-lrb- davis -rrb- wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters .

it all looks and plays like a $ 40 million version of a game you 're more likely to enjoy on a computer .

van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest .

forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this wo n't seem like such a bore .

viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet .

it 's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that 's been given the drive of a narrative and that 's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work .

there 's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish .

a very capable nailbiter .

one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud .

a witty , whimsical feature debut .

`` -lrb- hopkins -rrb- does n't so much phone in his performance as fax it .

a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine .

no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film .

wedding feels a bit anachronistic .

it 's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that 's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie 's strangeness .

schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park -lrb- as well as one , ms. mirren , who did -rrb- , has succeeded beyond all expectation .

this movie got me grinning .

even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it does n't make for completely empty entertainment

let 's face it -- there are n't many reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they 're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney spears .

a haunting tale of murder and mayhem .

weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting .

me without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .

consummate actor barry has done excellent work here .

a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood .

... the plot weaves us into a complex web .