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0 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
2 | i liked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . |
2 | wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . |
0 | the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . |
0 | flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | a moving story of determination and the human spirit . |
1 | 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 . |
1 | to the degree that ivans xtc . |
2 | there is greatness here . |
2 | lovely and amazing is holofcener 's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . |
2 | i liked this film a lot ... |
2 | demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . |
0 | 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 . |
0 | but they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . |
2 | a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than `` memento '' |
2 | those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . |
2 | on that score , the film certainly does n't disappoint . |
1 | what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . |
2 | 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 . ' |
0 | a negligible british comedy . |
2 | great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . |
2 | beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . |
2 | , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . |
2 | 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 . |
2 | children and adults enamored of all things pokemon wo n't be disappointed . |
0 | you 'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . |
1 | 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 . |
1 | 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 . |
1 | it bites hard . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- delivers a magnetic performance . |
0 | despite bearing the paramount imprint , it 's a bargain-basement european pickup . |
0 | by the time you reach the finale , you 're likely wondering why you 've been watching all this strutting and posturing . |
0 | a predictable , manipulative stinker . |
0 | ... 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 . |
2 | a solid , psychological action film from hong kong . |
0 | a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . |
2 | it 's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . |
0 | a bad movie that happened to good actors . |
0 | plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . |
0 | ... a rather bland affair . |
2 | spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . |
2 | by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . |
1 | a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson 's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . |
2 | it 's funny . |
0 | what an embarrassment . |
0 | i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . |
0 | what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . |
2 | that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . |
2 | 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 . |
2 | a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . |
0 | 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 . |
0 | 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 . |
0 | 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- . |
2 | 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 . |
0 | sweet home alabama certainly wo n't be remembered as one of -lrb- witherspoon 's -rrb- better films . |
0 | the film is all over the place , really . |
0 | has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release . |
0 | ... 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 . |
0 | do n't even bother to rent this on video . |
0 | if only merchant paid more attention the story . |
2 | it 's a glorious spectacle like those d.w. griffith made in the early days of silent film . |
0 | the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh 's rise up the social ladder . |
1 | it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . |
0 | -lrb- a -rrb- painfully flat gross-out comedy ... |
2 | richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . |
0 | shunji iwai 's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . |
2 | 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 . |
1 | at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | even though the film does n't manage to hit all of its marks , it 's still entertaining to watch the target practice . |
2 | 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 . |
0 | this is not an easy film . |
0 | a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . |
1 | ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . |
2 | while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . |
0 | 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 . |
0 | in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . |
2 | 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 . |
0 | squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . |
1 | it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . |
2 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
2 | elvira fans could hardly ask for more . |
0 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
0 | at times , it actually hurts to watch . |
0 | made me unintentionally famous -- as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . |
2 | -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 . |
1 | 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 . '' |