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2 | one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . |
2 | forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . |
2 | i like it . |
0 | philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . |
2 | while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . |
1 | highly irritating at first , mr. koury 's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . |
2 | although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . |
0 | a well-crafted letdown . |
2 | duvall is strong as always . |
0 | toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . |
2 | terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . |
2 | very well-written and very well-acted . |
1 | nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . |
0 | there 's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip 's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . |
1 | -- was a fad that had long since vanished . |
0 | girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . |
0 | adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . |
0 | muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . |
0 | morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . |
0 | carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , ` if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . ' |
2 | nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one . |
0 | this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . |
1 | it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? |
1 | while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . |
2 | and that makes all the difference . |
2 | robert harmon 's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film 's thick shadows . |
0 | ... a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920 's ... the film 's ending has a `` what was it all for ? '' |
2 | it 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . |
0 | slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth . |
0 | forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . |
2 | a riveting story well told . |
0 | for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence . |
1 | worse than ` silence of the lambs ' better than ` hannibal ' |
0 | a culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is . |
1 | this version moves beyond the original 's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema 's inability to stand in for true , lived experience . |
0 | this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . |
0 | at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . |
0 | mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . |
1 | at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . |
0 | the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . |
2 | the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield 's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . |
0 | the script ? |
2 | nicole holofcener 's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . |
2 | likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . |
2 | borrows a bit from the classics `` wait until dark '' and `` extremities '' ... but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . |
2 | a pleasant piece of escapist entertainment . |
2 | sweet and memorable film . |
2 | this is a movie you can trust . |
0 | whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . |
2 | impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . |
0 | these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers . |
2 | there are a couple of things that elevate `` glory '' above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall . |
2 | it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . |
2 | daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . |
2 | many a parent and their teen -lrb- or preteen -rrb- kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . |
2 | the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it . |
2 | though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . |
1 | grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . |
2 | evelyn 's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . |
0 | ... bibbidy-bobbidi-bland . |
0 | one thing 's for sure -- if george romero had directed this movie , it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . |
2 | and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . |
0 | epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . |
2 | it 's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . |
2 | ` blue crush ' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . |
0 | needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . |
2 | it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . |
0 | but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . |
2 | so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . |
1 | the real question this movie poses is not ` who ? ' |
2 | despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . |
2 | a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem . |
1 | in the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more . |
2 | effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . |
0 | goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . |
1 | it 's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . |
2 | quietly engaging . |
2 | what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman 's tragic odyssey . |
1 | gambling and throwing a basketball game for money is n't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . |
0 | not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? |
0 | a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit 's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . |
0 | what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . |
2 | the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . |
0 | has none of the crackle of `` fatal attraction '' , `` 9 1\/2 weeks '' , or even `` indecent proposal '' , and feels more like lyne 's stolid remake of `` lolita '' . |
2 | a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . |
2 | fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . |
0 | as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising . |
2 | there 's much tongue in cheek in the film and there 's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . |
2 | ... `` bowling for columbine '' remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film ... |
0 | it 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . |
0 | phoned-in business as usual . |
0 | the only thing to fear about `` fear dot com '' is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . |
2 | blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . |
0 | to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . |
2 | there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . |
1 | in -lrb- screenwriter -rrb- charlie kaufman 's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . |
2 | bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . |
1 | dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . |
2 | the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it 's in danger of going wrong . |
1 | with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it 's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . |