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sadly , ` garth ' has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne . '

some may choose to interpret the film 's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darker .

the story of trouble every day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult .

-lrb- t -rrb- he ideas of revolution # 9 are more compelling than the execution

most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .

consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire .

imagine -lrb- if possible -rrb- a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma .

it 's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you 've seen the remake first .

just plain bad .

although it tries to be much more , it 's really just another major league .

when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you 'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .

the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood .

director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?

colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate 's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory .

this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action .

slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot .

if i want music , i 'll buy the soundtrack .

this movie has the usual impossible stunts ... but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie .

... salaciously simplistic .

sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .

as a film director , labute continues to improve .

a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .

the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course .

lazily directed by charles stone iii ... from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis .

the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .

this is a film living far too much in its own head .

pascale bailly 's rom-com provides amélie 's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest .

flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose 's performance .

p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible .

imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene .

if mr. zhang 's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian .

the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson 's magnolia and david lynch 's mulholland dr.

i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie .

large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year 's radar screen that it 's tempting just to go with it for the ride .

`` frailty '' offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies .

despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed .

a pint-sized ` goodfellas ' designed to appeal to the younger set , it 's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one 's interest .

no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make .

any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors .

go , girls , right down the reality drain .

staggeringly dreadful romance .

a smart , compelling drama .

thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents

... there 's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages .

you want to call domino 's .

deliciously slow .

might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper .

the problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay .

the most remarkable -lrb- and frustrating -rrb- thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank .

offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing .

... certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes .

an escapist confection that 's pure entertainment .

an amused indictment of jaglom 's own profession .

there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down .

so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag .

a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special .

beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it 's a lyrical endeavour .

pompous and garbled .

there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .

for all its problems ... the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring ... which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience .

the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety .

a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes .

it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b.s. one another and put on a show in drag .

... myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs ...

a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away .

cuba gooding jr. valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy .

a sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity .

a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe .

constantly slips from the grasp of its maker .

the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits .

an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema .

that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle .

what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is .

simplistic , silly and tedious .

we just do n't really care too much about this love story .

writer\/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results .

it 's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash. , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it 's what makes their project so interesting .

now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud .

offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through .

an extraordinarily silly thriller .

the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v.s. naipaul 's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour .

disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself .

for a film about explosions and death and spies , `` ballistic : ecks vs. sever '' seems as safe as a children 's film .

what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ?

it 's up to -lrb- watts -rrb- to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe .

what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context .

well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies .

... a solid , well-formed satire .

a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film .

though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set .

the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed .

less than fresh .

labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public .

those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` scratch '' a second look .

a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor .

it 's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of -lrb- woo 's -rrb- best work .

using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater .

old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment .

britney 's performance can not be faulted .

they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .