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2 | the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . |
2 | puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . |
1 | ending . |
0 | there are some laughs in this movie , but williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . |
2 | boisterous , heartfelt comedy . |
0 | it 's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . |
0 | the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . |
2 | i 'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . |
2 | very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . |
0 | if festival in cannes nails hard - boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . |
2 | coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world 's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . |
2 | but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . |
0 | i wanted more . |
2 | the entire cast is extraordinarily good . |
0 | as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . |
2 | a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . |
1 | it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . |
2 | a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . |
2 | it 's immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do . |
1 | director-writer bille august ... depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin 's deterioration and barbara 's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . |
1 | lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . |
0 | ... a pretentious mess ... |
1 | the first half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . |
1 | feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . |
1 | too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could 've been an impacting film . |
2 | it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . |
0 | terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . |
0 | a very depressing movie of many missed opportunities . |
2 | captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . |
2 | if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it -- the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you 're one of the lucky few who sought it out . |
0 | writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . |
0 | this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it 's the worst movie i 've seen this summer . |
0 | in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags . |
2 | singer\/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . |
0 | does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . |
0 | this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . |
0 | the movie 's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . |
0 | if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . |
2 | boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . |
0 | the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . |
2 | it 's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . |
0 | weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he does n't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . |
2 | once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . |
0 | choppy , overlong documentary about ` the lifestyle . ' |
2 | better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . |
0 | the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . |
0 | ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . |
0 | though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . |
2 | the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . |
0 | low rent from frame one . |
0 | sheridan seems terrified of the book 's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its 茅lan , humor , bile , and irony . |
1 | there 's very little sense to what 's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . |
0 | unfortunately , carvey 's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . |
0 | it may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . '' |
2 | over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . |
2 | what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . |
0 | it hates its characters . |
0 | ... an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . |
0 | with `` ichi the killer '' , takashi miike , japan 's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman ... |
0 | anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . |
0 | comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . |
0 | we do n't even like their characters . |
0 | just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . |
0 | the characters never change . |
0 | even kids deserve better . |
0 | while scorsese 's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic , the movie is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . |
0 | once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . |
2 | this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . |
0 | into how long is this movie ? |
2 | the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . |
0 | think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world 's most generic rock star . |
2 | you 'll probably love it . |
0 | and for all the wrong reasons besides . |
2 | reminiscent of alfred hitchcock 's thrillers , most of the scary parts in ` signs ' occur while waiting for things to happen . |
2 | in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . |
2 | if you love him , you 'll like it . |
2 | what 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . |
2 | i like that smith , he 's not making fun of these people , he 's not laughing at them . |
0 | the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor . |
0 | the movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . |
0 | so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . |
2 | victor rosa is leguizamo 's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . |
1 | the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . |
2 | psychologically savvy . |
2 | a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . |
2 | a chilling movie without oppressive gore . |
0 | we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . |
0 | star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . |
2 | several of steven soderbergh 's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . |
2 | the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . |
2 | the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . |
2 | a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one 's actions . |
0 | the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . |
2 | directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut . |
1 | true hollywood story . |
1 | bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . |
0 | because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . |
0 | viewers of barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . |
0 | they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . |
2 | as it turns out , you can go home again . |