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it 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on .

violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining .

like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .

as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired .

sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .

`` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling .

a no-holds-barred cinematic treat .

your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make .

plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year .

all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence .

with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .

like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places .

adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary .

canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city .

ultimately , `` mib ii '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless .

like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit .

go for la salle 's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script .

was i scared ?

fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten

tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .

the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows .

a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life .

a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades .

by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .

rewarding .

often hilarious .

a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma .

shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .

just watch bettany strut his stuff .

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 .

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 .

jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used .

the adventure does n't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 .

a very charming and funny movie .

if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again .

you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that .

nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .

... the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material .

beware the quirky brit-com .

a sense of real magic , perhaps .

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 .

a tour de force of modern cinema .

able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history .

it still feels like a prison stretch .

a lifetime movie about men .

near the end takes on a whole other meaning .

adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel .

he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty .

this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative .

the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism .

-lrb- a -rrb- smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks .

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 .

a supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama .

snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good .

an impeccable study in perversity .

then nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all .

what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings .

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 .

offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere .

but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging .

a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices .

decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like .

an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .

i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen .

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 .

a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .

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 .

more of a career curio than a major work .

suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness .

talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .

filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life .

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 .

beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .

more tiring than anything .

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 .

uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ...

a perceptive , good-natured movie .

the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy .

maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor .

humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way .

if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother .

reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness .

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 .

other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst .

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 .

like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film .

captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper .

this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be .

gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .

when the heroes were actually under 40 ?

he drags it back , single-handed .

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 .

if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like .

the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits .

there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie .

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 .

reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show .

a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .

be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense .

the mantra behind the project seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick . '