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while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in .

although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action .

long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .

the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public

a thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation .

bittersweet comedy\/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys .

it 's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly wo n't win any honors .

the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial .

this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies .

remarkable for its intelligence and intensity .

a complete waste of time .

should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike .

an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives .

you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride .

resident evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail .

that works .

what 's most memorable about circuit is that it 's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb .

the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride .

a classy , sprightly spin on film .

frankly , it 's kind of insulting , both to men and women .

in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry .

watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy .

nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining .

it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .

so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .

one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made .

would n't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war ii ?

this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful .

if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest .

but this is lohman 's film .

if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh .

a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable .

the script 's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off .

personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire .

refreshing .

a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men .

by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them .

the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter .

... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs .

director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking .

while the film is competent , it 's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires .

the locale ... remains far more interesting than the story at hand .

releasing a film with the word ` dog ' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them .

alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie ... tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life .

director todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates .

shankman ... and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story .

cinematic poo .

she 's as rude and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations .

i ca n't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents ...

buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr. chips off the old block .

in an art film !

the movie just has too much on its plate to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute running time .

presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation .

after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history .

promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish .

so-so entertainment .

it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth .

robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side .

throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love 's brief moment .

the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who do n't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance .

the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based ` drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged .

tackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme does n't drag an audience down .

a disaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants .

playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows .

the story itself is actually quite vapid .

this orange has some juice , but it 's far from fresh-squeezed .

he does n't , however , deliver nearly enough of the show 's trademark style and flash .

no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story .

the film has several strong performances .

nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro 's right-hand goombah .

the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate .

too predictably , in fact .

the emperor 's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but ...

what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine 's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching .

apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka 's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience .

it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness .

japanese director shohei imamura 's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime .

only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it 's looking for .

one of the more glaring signs of this movie 's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears .

jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter 's glory days on three 's company .

not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet .

a true pleasure .

lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck .

if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign .

a movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling .

no big hairy deal .

i loved this film .

if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey .

could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ?

for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera .

it 's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert .

probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis .

gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .

i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it .

this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it .

this is one of mr. chabrol 's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny .

despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair ...

sparse but oddly compelling .

despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings .

in a strange way , egoyan has done too much .