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2 | could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . |
2 | a french film with a more down-home flavor . |
0 | when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger 's sex life , it already has one strike against it . |
2 | an asian neo-realist treasure . |
0 | generic thriller junk . |
2 | an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of view . |
0 | while some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . |
2 | more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . |
0 | apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present hollywood program . |
2 | thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . |
1 | a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . |
2 | a compelling allegory about the last days of germany 's democratic weimar republic . |
0 | or maybe `` how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? '' |
2 | it falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose . |
0 | the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just wo n't fly with most intelligent viewers . |
1 | worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . |
2 | sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first -lrb- as best i remember -rrb- , but still a very good time at the cinema . |
0 | by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest can not be revived . |
1 | an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot |
0 | a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken . |
2 | a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . |
0 | scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . |
1 | despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . |
2 | i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . |
2 | chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . |
0 | the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . |
1 | the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . |
0 | brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . |
2 | if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it 's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . |
2 | even the digressions are funny . |
2 | and , thanks to the presence of ` the king , ' it also rocks . |
0 | in other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year . |
2 | visually fascinating ... an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . |
0 | as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen . |
2 | we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in fire that makes the formula fresh again . |
2 | gets better after foster leaves that little room . |
1 | ... would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie 's edges . |
2 | compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . |
0 | -lrb- evans is -rrb- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . |
0 | the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . |
1 | show me the mugging . |
1 | this is more a case of ` sacre bleu ! ' |
0 | this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea -lrb- or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really -rrb- in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question ` why ? ' |
1 | ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . |
2 | manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . |
0 | feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . |
0 | a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic . |
0 | the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . |
1 | finally coming down off of miramax 's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . |
0 | a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily . |
0 | a tired , unnecessary retread ... a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with . |
1 | hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . |
1 | like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . |
0 | is n't as sharp as the original ... despite some visual virtues , ` blade ii ' just does n't cut it . |
0 | enigma lacks it . |
1 | now i can see why people thought i was too hard on `` the mothman prophecies '' . |
2 | mr. caine and mr. fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . |
0 | too bad none of it is funny . |
2 | overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . |
2 | there 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . |
2 | yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it 's so fascinating you wo n't be able to look away for a second . |
1 | a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . |
2 | this film puts wang at the forefront of china 's sixth generation of film makers . |
2 | a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother . |
2 | like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience 's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . |
2 | i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . |
0 | -lrb- n -rrb- o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . |
2 | not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . |
0 | after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . |
2 | texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . |
0 | obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time -lrb- including mine -rrb- on something very inconsequential . |
1 | blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she 's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . |
0 | should have gone straight to video . |
2 | maryam is more timely now than ever . |
0 | koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . |
2 | it deserves to be seen everywhere . |
2 | a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . |
1 | the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah ... never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . |
0 | you do n't need to know your ice-t 's from your cool-j 's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . |
2 | by turns very dark and very funny . |
0 | completely awful iranian drama ... as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . |
0 | suspend your disbelief here and now , or you 'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . |
0 | nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . |
2 | uneven but a lot of fun . |
0 | the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . |
0 | the biggest problem i have -lrb- other than the very sluggish pace -rrb- is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . |
2 | ... it 's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . |
0 | a zombie movie in every sense of the word -- mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . |
0 | -lrb- moore 's -rrb- better at fingering problems than finding solutions . |
2 | ... fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist 's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . |
0 | is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? |
0 | there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . |
0 | -lrb- green is -rrb- the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i 'm just about ready to go to the u.n. and ask permission for a preemptive strike . |
1 | a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . |
0 | once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . |
0 | some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . |
2 | brave and sweetly rendered love story . |
2 | for decades we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . |
2 | the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we 've long associated with washington the actor . |
1 | curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . |