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like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing .

it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ?

this movie is to be cherished .

in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .

the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .

entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .

ryan gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor .

-lrb- garbus -rrb- discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .

i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson .

while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle .

for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .

an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama .

skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions .

like the best of godard 's movies ... it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable .

with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism .

spare but quietly effective retelling .

the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .

this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .

it 's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to .

a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .

chomp chomp !

harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research .

all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .

fessenden 's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy .

the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess .

a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy .

a must see for all sides of the political spectrum

the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome .

skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd .

viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture .

... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .

forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .

an action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat .

beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures .

the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis .

... hypnotically dull .

we ca n't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie .

but then again , i hate myself most mornings .

a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship .

although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out .

if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere .

it can be safely recommended as a video\/dvd babysitter .

the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end .

part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .

a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . '

unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile .

there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami 's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics

it winds up moving in many directions as it searches -lrb- vainly , i think -rrb- for something fresh to say .

it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .

fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation .

with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller

rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative .

but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker .

the acting is just fine , but there 's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .

romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here .

-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie .

good , solid storytelling .

it 's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion 's attentions .

the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half

a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie .

um ... is n't that the basis for the entire plot ?

-lrb- has -rrb- an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it 's all true .

a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed .

bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .

a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving .

to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago ...

this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . ''

an intriguing near-miss .

the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .

the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman 's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .

craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .

rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense .

but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .

famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .

` matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy .

-lrb- toback 's -rrb- fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material .

at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon .

the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the -lrb- teen comedy -rrb- genre a bad name .

elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love .

you bet there is and it 's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking .

weird .

-lrb- clooney 's -rrb- debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh .

pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess .

it was a dark and stormy night ...

the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .

nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb-

romanek 's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals .

no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming .

an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility .

scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .

a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .

... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit .

will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ?

your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .

exciting and well-paced .

in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie .

wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste .

lasker 's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther ... realize they ca n't get no satisfaction without the latter .

`` feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .

essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality