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1 | `` what john does is heroic , but we do n't condone it , '' one of the film 's stars recently said , a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture 's moral schizophrenia . |
0 | mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . |
2 | an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . |
2 | below may not mark mr. twohy 's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . |
0 | i think it was plato who said , ' i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . ' |
0 | the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . |
0 | is n't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? |
1 | but something seems to be missing . |
0 | this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . |
2 | chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of ` ethnic cleansing . ' |
2 | it 's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . |
1 | red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . |
1 | yet another weepy southern bore-athon . |
0 | white has n't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . |
2 | world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . |
2 | it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . |
2 | witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . |
1 | it 's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . |
1 | a very pretty after-school special . |
0 | hawke 's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , does n't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . |
0 | gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . |
2 | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . |
2 | using an endearing cast , writer\/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred . |
0 | some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . |
0 | `` sorority boys '' was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad . |
2 | toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it 's hard not to be carried away . |
1 | the movie is n't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave . |
0 | silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . |
2 | it 's the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . |
2 | and , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater . |
0 | the rules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . |
2 | his work with actors is particularly impressive . |
1 | is `` ballistic '' worth the price of admission ? |
1 | a. . . |
2 | unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . |
1 | after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . |
0 | worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . |
0 | one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . |
0 | when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . |
2 | a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . |
0 | wishy-washy . |
0 | no one can doubt the filmmakers ' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . |
0 | it just goes to show , an intelligent person is n't necessarily an admirable storyteller . |
1 | the next big thing 's not-so-big -lrb- and not-so-hot -rrb- directorial debut . |
1 | reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . |
0 | moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . |
2 | for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! |
0 | too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if . '' |
1 | denis forges out of the theories of class - based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . |
2 | the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t. |
1 | it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . |
1 | the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy 's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . |
0 | a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that does n't make much sense even on its own terms . |
1 | it 's sweet ... but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . |
2 | a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents . |
0 | why `` they '' were here and what `` they '' wanted and quite honestly , i did n't care . |
0 | shallow . |
2 | a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . |
2 | but toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . |
2 | all three women deliver remarkable performances . |
2 | koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager 's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . |
0 | off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . |
2 | there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . |
2 | in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . |
0 | `` freaky friday , '' it 's not . |
1 | instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . |
1 | if there 's one big point to promises , it 's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . |
0 | an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades |
2 | bolstered by an astonishing voice cast -lrb- excepting love hewitt -rrb- , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i have n't encountered since at least pete 's dragon . |
2 | while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . |
0 | this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . |
2 | maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . |
1 | granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . |
2 | brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life . |
0 | borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . |
0 | appropriately cynical social commentary aside , # 9 never quite ignites . |
1 | self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . |
0 | the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . |
0 | this u-boat does n't have a captain . |
1 | there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . |
1 | photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . |
2 | spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don ' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . |
2 | a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . |
2 | you will likely prefer to keep on watching . |
2 | a film that 's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . |
0 | it 's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . |
1 | if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story -lrb- like , say , treasure planet -rrb- or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i 'll take the latter every time . |
0 | the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . '' |
2 | it 's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . |
2 | one fantastic -lrb- and educational -rrb- documentary . |
2 | the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . |
1 | one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . |
2 | a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park 's . |
2 | he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . |
0 | an incoherent jumble of a film that 's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . |
2 | cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . |
0 | instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story 's emotional thrust . |
2 | i love the robust middle of this picture . |
0 | for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment has n't escaped the rut dug by the last one . |
2 | it 's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . |