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woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending .

either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks .

lightweight but appealing .

there is nothing redeeming about this movie .

what 's infuriating about full frontal is that it 's too close to real life to make sense .

touché !

the movie 's seams may show ... but pellington gives `` mothman '' an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling .

macdowell ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done .

director paul cox 's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky 's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .

the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins .

the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality .

the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny .

lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s .

a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending .

`` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time .

featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock .

hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry .

everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing .

it 's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas .

the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood .

once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional .

a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community .

the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him .

an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art .

an unflinching look at the world 's dispossessed .

unless you 're a fanatic , the best advice is : ` scooby ' do n't .

nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while .

and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him .

the culmination of everyone 's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form -lrb- in `` last dance '' -rrb- .

there 's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance .

the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shocks .

go back to sleep .

this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 .

the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious .

it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? ''

secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving .

a visionary marvel , but it 's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this .

nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy .

one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made .

this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .

happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .

fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix .

whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen .

jagger , stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride .

banal and predictable .

takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker .

ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna .

the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls .

what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary .

best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man .

it does n't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain .

scooby-doo does n't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick .

a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff .

unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs .

`` the best disney movie since the lion king ''

merry friggin ' christmas !

best indie of the year , so far .

feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series .

it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier .

simone is not a bad film .

harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate .

triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree .

a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling .

as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , -lrb- franco -rrb- has all of dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability .

open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile 's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations .

the first bond movie in ages that is n't fake fun .

the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull .

for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment .

the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey .

ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling .

has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together .

the film is saved from are n't - kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition .

death to smoochy is often very funny , but what 's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito 's misanthropic vision .

this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous .

you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal .

the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants ... who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds .

there 's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids ' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups .

it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush .

it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy . '

opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half .

it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time .

efficient , suitably anonymous chiller .

... stylistically , the movie is a disaster .

it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity .

... a guiltless film for nice evening out .

what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion .

an opportunity missed .

its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film .

canada 's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people .

fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it .

dignified ceo 's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree .

helps to remind the first world that hiv\/aids is far from being yesterday 's news .

some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema .

a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man ... about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy .

the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors .

the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull .

beneath the film 's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve .

the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in .

perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` serving sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff .

the film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting .