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2 | it 's sweet . |
0 | one of the worst movies of the year . |
1 | the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . |
2 | like brosnan 's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . |
2 | though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . |
2 | -lrb- woo 's -rrb- most resonant film since the killer . |
0 | it 's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that 's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious . |
0 | this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . |
2 | strange and beautiful film . |
1 | a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly piece . |
0 | the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . |
0 | the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood . |
0 | the catch is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . |
0 | one of those so-so films that could have been much better . |
1 | proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . |
1 | how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? |
1 | a very familiar tale , one that 's been told by countless filmmakers about italian - , chinese - , irish - , latin - , indian - , russian - and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . |
0 | has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . |
0 | as original and insightful as last week 's episode of behind the music . |
2 | marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . |
0 | ... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... |
0 | ... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' |
2 | reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . |
2 | as a vehicle to savour binoche 's skill , the film is well worthwhile . |
2 | what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail . |
2 | steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . |
2 | it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . |
2 | the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . |
2 | the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . |
0 | insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . |
0 | this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big , dumb action movie . |
0 | when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs. woo , it looks like woo 's a p.o.w. |
1 | initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . |
0 | evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention . |
0 | characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . |
1 | a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it is n't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . |
2 | it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . |
0 | is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . |
2 | an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . |
1 | ` would n't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it 's like on the other side of the bra ? ' |
1 | the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . |
0 | cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . |
0 | been there done that . |
0 | something has been lost in the translation ... another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . |
2 | tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . |
0 | despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable |
2 | cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . |
2 | for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . |
2 | delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . |
1 | the thing looks like a made-for-home-video quickie . |
0 | -- that the ` true story ' by which all the queen 's men is allegedly `` inspired '' was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen . |
0 | you could hate it for the same reason . |
2 | a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . |
2 | waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway . |
1 | reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . |
2 | `` frailty '' starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different -lrb- and better -rrb- than most films with this theme . |
2 | thanks to the ch芒teau 's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . |
0 | gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . |
0 | julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent . |
2 | in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . |
1 | a movie that at its best does n't just make the most out of its characters ' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . |
2 | elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . |
2 | dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . |
1 | you really have to salute writer-director haneke -lrb- he adapted elfriede jelinek 's novel -rrb- for making a film that is n't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . |
1 | a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . |
1 | it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . |
0 | solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he is n't talking a talk that appeals to me . |
0 | a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . ' |
0 | stale , futile scenario . |
2 | a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing . |
1 | not kids , who do n't need the lesson in repugnance . |
0 | in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . |
1 | if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . |
0 | full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . |
0 | a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . |
2 | a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it 's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . |
0 | nothing but an episode of smackdown ! |
2 | for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there 's something creepy about this movie . |
1 | it 's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . |
1 | the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers do n't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . |
1 | made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because -lrb- solondz 's -rrb- cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . |
0 | kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . |
0 | the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . |
0 | it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . |
0 | a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . |
0 | it 's drab . |
2 | ... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . |
2 | what 's so striking about jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . |
1 | director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it 's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . |
0 | in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . |
2 | i 've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . |
2 | woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back . |
1 | melodrama with a message . |
2 | horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . |
2 | a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . |
0 | a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . |
2 | 10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . |
2 | an enjoyable above average summer diversion . |
0 | watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement . |
1 | a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman 's point-of-view . |