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it 's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones .

his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories .

the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything .

writer \/ director m. night shyamalan 's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable .

fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal .

while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river 's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby 's main overall flaw .

with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland 's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion .

what bubbles up out of john c. walsh 's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch .

abysmally pathetic

instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized .

the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's -lrb- unintentionally -rrb- funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care .

blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances .

it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense .

an exhilarating experience .

a dazzling dream of a documentary .

narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films .

jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart .

mandel holland 's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning .

in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition

animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots .

but rather , ` how can you charge money for this ? '

`` austin powers in goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .

exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan 's platinum-blonde hair .

not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at .

an erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either .

while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine .

family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking .

a case in point : doug pray 's scratch .

the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them .

it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy .

as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death .

demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack .

i 'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen .

it 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems .

like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film -lrb- at 80 minutes -rrb- is actually quite entertaining .

the lousy lead performances ... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .

medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt .

is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ?

art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema .

madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose .

so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming .

there 's a lot of good material here , but there 's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it .

... the story , like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with .

it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect .

there 's something about a marching band that gets me where i live .

the film favors the scientific over the spectacular -lrb- visually speaking -rrb- .

it should have stayed there .

it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material .

alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick .

well , it probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises , but it 's definitely worth taking a look .

bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love .

` enigma ' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of ` we were soldiers . '

what a pity ... that the material is so second-rate .

it 's that good .

calculated swill .

a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make ` cherish ' a very good -lrb- but not great -rrb- movie .

enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons .

a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation .

directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia .

... a confusing drudgery .

it 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries .

-lrb- a -rrb- mess .

believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half .

i 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute .

plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv 's dawson 's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story .

black-and-white and unrealistic .

-lrb- lin chung 's -rrb- voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating -lrb- at least to this western ear -rrb- , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters .

it 's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter .

hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic ... love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions .

the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects .

a lovely film ... elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic ... hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source 's complexity .

a summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution .

taken as a whole , the tuxedo does n't add up to a whole lot .

good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork .

intimate and panoramic .

high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort .

suffers from all the excesses of the genre .

hate it because it 's lousy .

this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens ... or if it were subtler ... or if it had a sense of humor .

big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level .

a doa dud from frame one .

it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie .

elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke .

this is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work .

why spend $ 9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ?

just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name .

`` home movie '' is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time .

it 's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .

the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it .

robinson 's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates .

... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional .

intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being .

like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating .

where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment .

throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh .

a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special .

debate it .

i did n't laugh .

holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin .

one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but ... also one of the most curiously depressing .