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it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time .

both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others .

i liked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further .

wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .

the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming .

flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up .

mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear .

a moving story of determination and the human spirit .

mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it 's a pleasurable trifle .

to the degree that ivans xtc .

there is greatness here .

lovely and amazing is holofcener 's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is .

i liked this film a lot ...

demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking .

although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film 's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks .

but they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail .

a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than `` memento ''

those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective .

on that score , the film certainly does n't disappoint .

what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread .

the movie 's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish .

it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up .

you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing , ` this is going to be something really good . '

a negligible british comedy .

great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex .

beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly .

, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly .

there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but peter mattei 's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive -lrb- if tragic -rrb- note .

children and adults enamored of all things pokemon wo n't be disappointed .

you 'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie .

the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl .

how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of -lrb- françois and michèle 's -rrb- relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them .

it bites hard .

little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ... is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable .

like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- delivers a magnetic performance .

despite bearing the paramount imprint , it 's a bargain-basement european pickup .

by the time you reach the finale , you 're likely wondering why you 've been watching all this strutting and posturing .

a predictable , manipulative stinker .

... post-september 11 , `` the sum of all fears '' seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .

a solid , psychological action film from hong kong .

a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese .

it 's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it .

a bad movie that happened to good actors .

plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders .

... a rather bland affair .

spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry .

by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny .

a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .

despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast .

as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson 's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits .

it 's funny .

what an embarrassment .

i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art .

what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony .

that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar .

without resorting to camp or parody , haynes -lrb- like sirk , but differently -rrb- has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange .

a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy .

this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic .

jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky 's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive .

it just did n't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on -lrb- or be entertained by -rrb- .

although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching .

sweet home alabama certainly wo n't be remembered as one of -lrb- witherspoon 's -rrb- better films .

the film is all over the place , really .

has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release .

... this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels .

do n't even bother to rent this on video .

if only merchant paid more attention the story .

it 's a glorious spectacle like those d.w. griffith made in the early days of silent film .

the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh 's rise up the social ladder .

it is not what you see , it is what you think you see .

-lrb- a -rrb- painfully flat gross-out comedy ...

richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings .

shunji iwai 's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan .

it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them .

maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again .

hugely entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels .

at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab .

franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic .

even though the film does n't manage to hit all of its marks , it 's still entertaining to watch the target practice .

fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for .

this is not an easy film .

a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged .

ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour .

some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck .

it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should .

while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio .

the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld -lrb- who is also one of the film 's producers -rrb- do everything he can to look like a good guy .

in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises .

a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he 'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego .

squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare .

it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness .

skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults .

as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago ... has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency .

elvira fans could hardly ask for more .

its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this is n't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare .

a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood .

at times , it actually hurts to watch .

made me unintentionally famous -- as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby .

-lrb- taymor -rrb- utilizes the idea of making kahlo 's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work .

at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , `` i guess i come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . ''