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ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer 's memory .

` this movie sucks . '

an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre .

... a bland , pretentious mess .

the smash 'em - up , crash 'em - up , shoot 'em - up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense .

the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale

alternately frustrating and rewarding .

... if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious -- at ninety minutes , it drags .

a superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find .

sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 .

a listless and desultory affair .

a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .

nothing about them is attractive .

manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .

vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores .

the performances are an absolute joy .

this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done .

like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame .

it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise .

it 's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once .

this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool .

-lrb- swimfan -rrb- falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting .

it ca n't escape its past , and it does n't want to .

the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer 's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .

so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie .

loosely speaking , we 're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin .

predictably melodramatic .

silly , loud and goofy .

russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage .

highly engaging .

by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better .

antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it .

the whole talking-animal thing is grisly .

the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .

more a gunfest than a rock concert .

it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one .

if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun .

tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often .

has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .

a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches .

except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby 's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion .

what 's next ?

nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself .

buy popcorn .

twohy 's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels .

an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .

sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown 's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood .

aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash .

fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .

a creaky staircase gothic .

hatosy ... portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue .

washington overcomes the script 's flaws and envelops the audience in his character 's anguish , anger and frustration .

mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls .

very stupid and annoying .

don michael paul uses quick-cuts , -lrb- very -rrb- large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double -lrb- for seagal -rrb- .

an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .

the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material .

call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux .

slackers ' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film 's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by .

ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy .

it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .

make like the title and dodge this one .

often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers .

the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington 's fine performance in the title role .

but it 's surprisingly harmless .

officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .

broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force .

a film that suffers because of its many excesses .

a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 .

the leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting .

staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce .

a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .

a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .

functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .

spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around .

reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining .

the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience .

turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters

one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends .

to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree .

there 's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him .

a film that loses sight of its own story .

where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval .

these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation .

a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age .

the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side .

a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .

there 's plenty to impress about e.t.

the pianist -lrb- is -rrb- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life .

topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs .

has its share of arresting images .

never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .

the movie 's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .

it 's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there 's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag .

it is there to give them a good time .

whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama is n't much of a mystery , unfortunately .

has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke .

a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man 's right to raise his own children .

those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking .

the action is reasonably well-done ... yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together .