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a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility .

spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie .

speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life .

benigni 's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow .

audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling .

an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud .

a compassionate , moving portrait of an american -lrb- and an america -rrb- always reaching for something just outside his grasp .

director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin ' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .

does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring .

it 's an 88-minute highlight reel that 's 86 minutes too long .

a respectable but uninspired thriller that 's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact .

one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary ... is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .

it 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn .

a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the -lrb- opening -rrb- dance guarantees karmen 's enthronement among the cinema 's memorable women .

a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea .

the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind -- maybe too much .

the only thing `` swept away '' is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time .

indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild .

contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster .

amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by blethyn .

jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent -lrb- accurate ?

my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy .

a riveting documentary .

so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it .

great character interaction .

twist open the ouzo !

the biggest problem with this movie is that it 's not nearly long enough .

it 's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death

the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects .

birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked .

does n't add up to much .

the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it were n't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension .

... is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ?

it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie .

the movie is well crafted , and well executed .

90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .

moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought .

perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest .

this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least .

as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago .

-lrb- javier bardem is -rrb- one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama .

with elements cribbed from lang 's metropolis , welles ' kane , and eisenstein 's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô 's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own .

even with harris 's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear 's soul-stripping breakdown .

it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe 's misunderstanding of marivaux 's rhythms , and mira sorvino 's limitations as a classical actress .

nor is it a romantic comedy .

performances are potent , and the women 's stories are ably intercut and involving .

this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal .

it 's still terrible !

you wo n't exactly know what 's happening but you 'll be blissfully exhausted .

the good is very , very good ... the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful .

hey arnold !

in period costume and with a bigger budget .

scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar .

barry convinces us he 's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful .

this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook .

stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be .

it 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish .

though haynes ' style apes films from the period ... its message is not rooted in that decade .

in imax in short , it 's just as wonderful on the big screen .

made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america 's skin-deep notions of pulchritude .

i 'd watch these two together again in a new york minute .

a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that 's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth .

this is so de palma .

it 's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .

a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over .

so beautifully acted and directed , it 's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses .

insomnia is one of the year 's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances .

it 's so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it .

my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it .

proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs. sever .

an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton .

a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall .

the innocence of holiday cheer ai n't what it used to be .

the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere .

the son of the bride 's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues .

traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .

you 'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold .

an uplifting , near-masterpiece .

go .

pete 's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish .

the gorgeously elaborate continuation of `` the lord of the rings '' trilogy is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer\/director peter jackson 's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien 's middle-earth .

to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .

he 's worked too hard on this movie .

i 'll put it this way : if you 're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you .

rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic .

for all the complications , it 's all surprisingly predictable .

she 's not yet an actress , not quite a singer ...

the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year .

yo , it 's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo .

-lrb- a -rrb- devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama .

die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it 's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it 's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with .

-lrb- hayek -rrb- throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo .

there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel .

the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion .

captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head .

contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .

to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached .

... best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report .

the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet .

has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes .