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2 | it 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . |
0 | violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . |
0 | like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . |
0 | as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . |
2 | sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . |
2 | `` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . |
2 | a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . |
1 | your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . |
0 | plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . |
2 | all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . |
0 | with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . |
0 | like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . |
2 | adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . |
2 | canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . |
2 | ultimately , `` mib ii '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless . |
2 | like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit . |
1 | go for la salle 's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . |
1 | was i scared ? |
1 | fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten |
0 | tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . |
0 | the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows . |
2 | a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . |
2 | a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . |
2 | by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . |
2 | rewarding . |
2 | often hilarious . |
1 | a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . |
2 | shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . |
1 | just watch bettany strut his stuff . |
1 | it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . |
2 | i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they 're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . |
1 | jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . |
0 | the adventure does n't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . |
2 | a very charming and funny movie . |
1 | if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . |
1 | you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . |
2 | nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . |
0 | ... the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . |
0 | beware the quirky brit-com . |
2 | a sense of real magic , perhaps . |
0 | in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it 's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . |
2 | a tour de force of modern cinema . |
2 | able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history . |
0 | it still feels like a prison stretch . |
1 | a lifetime movie about men . |
1 | near the end takes on a whole other meaning . |
2 | adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . |
2 | he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . |
2 | this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . |
0 | the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . |
2 | -lrb- a -rrb- smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . |
0 | her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost . |
0 | a supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . |
1 | snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . |
2 | an impeccable study in perversity . |
1 | then nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . |
2 | what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings . |
1 | twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . |
2 | offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . |
0 | but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . |
0 | a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . |
1 | decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . |
0 | an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . |
0 | i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . |
0 | time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . |
0 | a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . |
2 | twenty years after its first release , e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career . |
1 | more of a career curio than a major work . |
0 | suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . |
0 | talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . |
0 | filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . |
0 | the great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . |
0 | beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . |
0 | more tiring than anything . |
0 | laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it 's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . |
0 | uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ... |
2 | a perceptive , good-natured movie . |
1 | the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . |
2 | maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . |
1 | humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . |
0 | if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother . |
0 | reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . |
2 | if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . |
0 | other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . |
0 | the movie is like scorsese 's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . |
2 | like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . |
2 | captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . |
1 | this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . |
2 | gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . |
1 | when the heroes were actually under 40 ? |
2 | he drags it back , single-handed . |
2 | translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . |
1 | if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like . |
1 | the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . |
0 | there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie . |
2 | a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . |
2 | reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . |
2 | a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . |
2 | be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . |
0 | the mantra behind the project seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick . ' |