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1 | ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . |
2 | enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . |
1 | i prefer soderbergh 's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky 's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . |
0 | this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . |
0 | a pale xerox of other , better crime movies . |
2 | strange it is , but delightfully so . |
0 | the story has little wit and no surprises . |
0 | crummy . |
0 | just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . |
2 | this is a very funny , heartwarming film . |
1 | ` rare birds ' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . |
2 | good-naturedly cornball sequel . |
1 | the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . |
0 | the french director has turned out nearly 21\/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . |
0 | it 's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after . |
1 | feardotcom 's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . |
1 | a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . |
2 | a small movie with a big impact . |
0 | the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . |
2 | crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . |
2 | an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . |
2 | -lrb- gosling 's -rrb- combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . |
2 | and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . |
1 | though it inspires some -lrb- out-of-field -rrb- creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . |
0 | in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . |
0 | reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . |
2 | marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . |
0 | there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? |
0 | a movie that 's held captive by mediocrity . |
1 | screenwriter chris ver weil 's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . |
2 | an admirable , sometimes exceptional film |
2 | this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . |
2 | a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . |
2 | ... spiced with humor -lrb- ' i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand -rrb- and witty updatings -lrb- silver 's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around -rrb- |
0 | has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . |
2 | not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . |
2 | a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . |
2 | matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! |
0 | a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . |
2 | there 's lots of cool stuff packed into espn 's ultimate x. |
2 | the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . |
2 | at its best , it 's black hawk down with more heart . |
1 | `` home movie '' is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . |
2 | invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . |
0 | a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . |
0 | patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . |
1 | a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it 's a tougher picture than it is . |
2 | a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . |
2 | rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ... |
1 | arnie blows things up . |
1 | if you 're really renting this you 're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you 're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . |
0 | a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . |
0 | should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . |
2 | -lrb- barry -rrb- gives assassin a disquieting authority . |
0 | its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . |
2 | a moving and important film . |
2 | these people are really going to love the piano teacher . |
0 | a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . |
0 | a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . |
2 | yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . |
2 | `` cremaster 3 '' should come with the warning `` for serious film buffs only ! '' |
1 | this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . |
2 | what 's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . |
2 | surprisingly insightful |
2 | to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer 's ` divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that 's not saying much . |
0 | the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . |
0 | earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . |
2 | brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke 's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . |
1 | a glorious mess . |
1 | unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo 's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie 's heart . |
2 | arguably the best script that besson has written in years . |
0 | it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . |
0 | pretend it 's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . |
0 | you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy 's holes , and the scripters do n't deserve any oscars . |
0 | truly terrible . |
0 | it 's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . |
1 | you just know something terrible is going to happen . |
0 | each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . |
0 | fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . |
2 | a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento ... |
1 | do n't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . |
2 | one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time . |
0 | a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this is n't . |
1 | too ordinary to restore -lrb- harmon -rrb- to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . |
2 | highly watchable stuff . |
2 | exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere . |
1 | there 's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . |
0 | content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . |
2 | a charming but slight comedy . |
1 | you know that ten bucks you 'd spend on a ticket ? |
1 | everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . |
2 | an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . |
0 | a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears ' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . |
0 | it looks like an action movie , but it 's so poorly made , on all levels , that it does n't even qualify as a spoof of such . |
1 | takes one character we do n't like and another we do n't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and is n't very funny . |
2 | but mostly it 's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . |
2 | as an introduction to the man 's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it 's invaluable . |
2 | young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . |
2 | excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . |
2 | the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . |