diff --git "a/data_test.csv" "b/data_test.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/data_test.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,2134 @@ +reviews,labels +"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller . ",1 +"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four . ",0 +"instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . ",1 +"if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . ",1 +"full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny",0 +"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . ",0 +it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . ,0 +like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0 +"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . ",1 +tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . ,0 +"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1 +too daft by half . . . but supremely good natured . ,0 +"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0 +hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ,0 +a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1 +"it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . ",1 +mildly entertaining . ,0 +ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor . ,1 +"quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . ",1 +"cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0 +the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . ,1 +"in its own floundering way , it gets to you . just like igby . ",1 +"if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . ",0 +"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! ",1 +nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . ,1 +get out your pooper-scoopers . ,0 +"shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1 +"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0 +"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . ",0 +"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . ",0 +"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . ",1 +a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potency . ,0 +"on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . ",0 +"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . ",1 +an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ,0 +"a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1 +"walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . ",0 +"the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . ",0 + . . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0 +"bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . ",1 +"[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",1 +"while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . ",1 +one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . ,1 +"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity . ",1 +"there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . ",0 +"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . ",0 +"y tu mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1 +"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1 +"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . ",0 +"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . ",0 +" "" white oleander , "" the movie , is akin to a reader's digest condensed version of the source material . ",1 +"it's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",1 +the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . ,1 +" "" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fun , good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , good cinematography . ",1 +"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . ",1 +"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . ",1 +[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . ,1 +a tasty masala . ,1 +"no wonder they're talking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing . ",1 +heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . ,1 +"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . ",1 +"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",0 +spiderman rocks,1 +"sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0 +a weird and wonderful comedy . ,1 +"the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . ",1 +when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . ,1 +i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre,1 +"an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . ",0 +"feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . ",0 +"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . ",0 +"schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0 +an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson . ,1 +"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1 + . . . irritating soul-searching garbage . ,0 +"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . ",1 +"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias románticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1 +murder by numbers just doesn't add up . ,0 +take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . ,0 +"the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0 +exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kids . ,0 +"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . ",1 +solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . ,1 +"content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . ",0 +"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . ",0 +"as it stands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . ",0 +the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . ,1 +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 . ,1 +one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . ,0 +"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",1 +a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . ,0 +"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",0 +"now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",1 +[a] slummer . ,0 +"highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . ",1 +the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . ,0 +"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",0 +more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . ,1 +"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 . ",1 +"this orange has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1 +"it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . ",0 +"unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . ",0 +"just like the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . ",0 +williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . ,1 +kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0 +"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0 +the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0 +"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . ",1 +tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1 +solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . ,1 +"a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . ",1 +"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1 +"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . ",1 +"the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1 +"reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidotes . ",1 +i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0 +"anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . ",1 +"smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . ",1 +exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . ,0 +"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1 +"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0 +"the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ",0 +how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ,0 +"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . ",0 +"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 . ",1 +"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1 +" . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0 +"the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . ",0 +"terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",0 +"adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . ",0 +"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0 +"i walked away not really know who "" they "" were , what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly , i didn't care . ",0 +"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . ",1 +"these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . ",0 +"in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",0 +snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him,0 + . . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . ,0 +"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . ",1 +a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ,1 +"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1 +just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0 +"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . ",1 +it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . ,1 +a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0 +the christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0 + . . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be,0 +"despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",0 +the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . ,0 +this time kaufman's imagination has failed him . ,0 +adam sandler ! in an art film ! ,1 +collapses under its own meager weight . ,0 +unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . ,0 +"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . ",0 +the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor . ,1 +"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0 +"if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . ",1 +"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0 +what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . ,0 +a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0 +"an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . ",0 +"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . ",1 +"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . ",0 +"lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . ",0 +"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . ",1 +this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations . ,0 +"it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . ",0 +"there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . ",0 +"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0 +"it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1 +"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes . ",1 +"not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . ",1 +"this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . ",1 +"behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . ",0 +as vulgar as it is banal . ,0 +a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . ,0 +the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . ,1 +"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",0 +"with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . ",1 +"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . ",1 +"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0 +feeble comedy . ,0 +"at just over an hour , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1 +"using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",1 +offers that rare combination of entertainment and education . ,1 +"a smart , witty follow-up . ",1 +"too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . ",0 +snipes is both a snore and utter tripe . ,0 + . . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0 +"fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . ",0 + . . . a confusing drudgery . ,0 +seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0 +what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ,0 +"the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . ",1 +the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0 +[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . ,1 +has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion . ,1 +what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea world . ,1 +there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . . ,1 +the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1 +a tremendous piece of work . ,1 +"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . ",1 +an instant candidate for worst movie of the year . ,0 +"secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . ",1 +something must have been lost in the translation . ,0 +"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0 +"if you've the patience , there are great rewards here . ",1 +"even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . ",0 +"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . ",1 +this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0 +"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",0 +"it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune . ",0 +it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . ,0 + . . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see . ,1 +"the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing . ",0 +"jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . ",1 +"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story . ",1 +this franchise has not spawned a single good film . the crap continues . ,0 +"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . ",1 +"keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . ",1 +"without resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . ",1 +"human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreal . ",0 +"a whole lot foul , freaky and funny . ",1 +cho's timing is priceless . ,1 +throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment . ,1 +"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . ",1 +"nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . ",1 +"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0 +"on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . ",0 +"with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . ",1 +"an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . ",1 +"deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . ",0 +"not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . ",0 +"stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . ",0 +"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . ",1 +"even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . ",0 +gives everyone something to shout about . ,1 +an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work . ,1 +"all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1 +"anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1 +"road to perdition does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . ",1 +"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",1 +"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0 +"a slick , skillful little horror film . ",1 +highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0 +"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0 +"in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . ",1 +"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1 +"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight zone "" episode . ",1 +"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1 +this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ,0 +"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . ",0 +starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . ,0 +"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . ",0 +it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0 +"the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . ",0 +"the real triumphs in igby come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . ",1 +"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . ",1 +"my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . ",1 +"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . ",0 +"costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . ",0 +crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ,1 +more maudlin than sharp . ,0 +"the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0 +what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . ,1 +"a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . ",0 +"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . ",1 +this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better . ,0 +"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . ",0 +"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . ",1 +jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . ,0 +"remember the kind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it . ",1 +"a preposterous , prurient whodunit . ",0 +"not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . ",1 +the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . ,1 +at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance . ,0 +"in other words , it's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it's robert duvall ! c'mon ! ",1 +"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . ",1 +"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",0 +"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the mood "" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . ",1 +i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0 +the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . ,0 +this is a film living far too much in its own head . ,0 +"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . ",1 +the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . ,0 +"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1 +"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 . ",0 +"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . ",0 +"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1 +"me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . ",1 +"however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0 +"ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . ",1 +"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1 +if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . ,0 +"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",1 +"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting . ",1 +"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1 +"well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . ",0 +fun and nimble . ,1 +"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",1 +arty gay film . ,0 +"i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . ",0 +a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . ,1 +"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0 +"it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . ",0 +"johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0 +the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . ,1 +"i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . ",1 +a stylish thriller . ,1 +as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time . ,1 +mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . ,0 +it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . ,0 +schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . ,0 +what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1 +"an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . ",1 +offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1 +this is really just another genre picture . ,0 +"it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? 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",0 +"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . ",0 +"dense , exhilarating documentary . ",1 +"from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . ",1 +one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . ,0 +"some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . ",0 +"'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . ",0 +"a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . ",1 +"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . ",1 +"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . ",0 +"while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . ",1 +a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . ,0 +"affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . ",1 +here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . ,1 +"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0 +"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . ",1 +what makes it worth watching is quaid's performance . ,1 +a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . ,1 +"while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . ",1 +"a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . ",1 +there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0 +it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1 +it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . ,0 +"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1 +"in the end , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and wonder what the point of it is . ",0 +it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo's] best work . ,0 +"the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . ",0 +this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . ,0 +" . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",1 +pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0 +"a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . ",1 +"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0 +"as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0 +"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . ",0 +the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0 +"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . ",0 +a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . ,0 +"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . ",1 +"though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1 +"more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1 +insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! ,1 +there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hit . ,0 +the all-french cast is marveilleux . ,1 +the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0 +"' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . '",1 +writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . ,1 +"there may have been a good film in "" trouble every day , "" but it is not what is on the screen . ",0 +"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame . ",0 +beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . ,0 +i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! ,0 +"the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . ",0 +"it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . ",1 +it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ,1 +"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . ",1 +"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed . ",1 +it's a charming and often affecting journey . ,1 +"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . ",0 +a comic gem with some serious sparkles . ,1 +uneven but a lot of fun . ,1 +"eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",1 +"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . ",0 +"although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0 +the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ,1 +"sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . ",0 +ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent years . ,1 +"it's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0 +a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground,0 +a full-frontal attack on audience patience . ,0 +"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . ",0 +impresses you with its open-endedness and surprises . ,1 +"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . ",1 +"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . ",1 +"a grating , emaciated flick . ",0 +"it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . ",0 +an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . ,1 +the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . ,0 +under-rehearsed and lifeless,0 +"a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1 +an extraordinarily silly thriller . ,0 +the performances are uniformly good . ,1 +" "" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . ",1 +"mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . ",1 +billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0 +"karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . ",1 +horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . ,1 +wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . ,0 +"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . ",1 +"clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . ",0 +"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . ",1 +"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music never heard . ",0 +"filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's new delhi . ",1 +funny but perilously slight . ,1 +the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0 +"it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . ",1 +a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . ,1 +consistently clever and suspenseful . ,1 +"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . ",0 +judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . ,1 +there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . ,0 +"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller "" new best friend "" , who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . ",0 +"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . ",0 +[barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority . ,1 +"the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0 +"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . ",1 +it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1 +"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0 +miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . ,1 +"if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . ",1 +"humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . ",1 +this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . ,0 +"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0 +" . . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . ",1 +"co-writer/director jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . ",0 +stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . ,0 +this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1 +"a working class "" us vs . them "" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . ",0 +although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tale . ,1 +"it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . ",0 +"a long-winded , predictable scenario . ",0 +"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . ",1 +"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . ",0 +"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . ",1 +"the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . ",0 +a conventional but heartwarming tale . ,1 +…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . ,0 +"adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . ",0 +"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0 +chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . ,0 +observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ,0 +the movie should be credited with remembering his victims . ,1 +[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . ,0 +"a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . ",0 +" . . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . ",1 +"true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",0 +"a smart , compelling drama . ",1 +sweet and memorable film . ,1 +the comedy is nonexistent . ,0 +"fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . ",0 +recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion . ,1 +"[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . ",0 +"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . ",0 +"a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . ",1 +me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1 +"seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",1 + . . . a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations . ,1 +the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0 +"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this way . ",0 +"films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . ",1 +"maybe leblanc thought , "" hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "" ",0 +"the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0 +"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1 +"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . ",1 +lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ,0 +i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . ,0 +"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . ",1 +"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . ",1 +"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time . ",1 +a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . ,0 +"cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1 +"the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . ",0 +"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . ",1 +"what goes on for the 110 minutes of "" panic room "" is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . ",0 +"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 +"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . ",1 +the pool drowned me in boredom . ,0 +if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ,0 +"if you liked such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . ",1 +"though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . ",1 +so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . ,0 +"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . ",1 +lovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . ,1 +norton is magnetic as graham . ,1 +"fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . ",1 +"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! ",1 +"if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . ",0 +"the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . ",1 +the drama discloses almost nothing . ,0 +"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . ",0 +with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . ,1 +"a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1 +"there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . ",0 +a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . ,0 +"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . ",0 +"thanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . ",1 +"feels shrill , simple and soapy . ",0 +"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . ",1 +"the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . ",1 +" . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . ",0 +"rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go . ",1 +"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",0 +"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . ",1 +"like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0 +"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1 +this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1 +"the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1 +the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0 +"with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . ",1 +"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . ",1 +griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . ,1 +"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . ",1 +a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . ,1 +this is junk food cinema at its greasiest . ,0 +excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . ,0 +believability wasn't one of the film's virtues . ,0 +"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impact in the theater world . ",1 +[a] strong piece of work . ,1 +even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . ,0 +"'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '",0 +another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . ,0 +clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . ,1 +this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ,0 +"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0 +just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . ,0 +"this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . ",0 +in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0 +"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . ",0 +there is so much plodding sensitivity . ,0 +"be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . ",1 +there's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0 +the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0 +that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1 +"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . ",0 +a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ,0 +i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingered . ,0 +"it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1 +you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . ,1 +"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . ",1 +it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film . ,0 +[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . ,1 +"bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1 +"touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1 +a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ,1 +"as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul . ",1 +allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . ,1 +can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as music,1 +ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1 +goes a long way on hedonistic gusto . ,1 +isn't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . ,0 +mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . ,1 +"good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . ",1 +"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1 +"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . ",0 +an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . ,0 +"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . ",1 +simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . ,0 +"twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . ",0 +"for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . ",1 +"if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1 +"one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . ",0 +it all adds up to good fun . ,1 +"return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . ",1 +"it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't . ",0 +"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . ",0 +"moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0 +"it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . ",0 + . . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . ,1 +"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 . ",1 +"the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . ",0 +as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs . ,0 +"bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . ",1 +certainly the performances are worthwhile . ,1 +"chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . ",1 +what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0 +exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . ,0 +there's plenty to impress about e . t . ,1 +"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film",1 +"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",1 +the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . ,1 +the performances take the movie to a higher level . ,1 +viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . ,0 +harmless fun . ,1 +equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . ,1 +"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . ",0 +"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1 +"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0 +"not the best herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . ",1 +[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . ,1 +farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . ,1 +pray has really done his subject justice . ,1 +a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . ,1 +an original little film about one young woman's education . ,1 +one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . ,1 +nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay . ,0 +"more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",1 +"to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",0 +several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . ,1 +a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . ,0 +it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . ,1 +"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0 +the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . ,1 +featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . ,1 +"producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway",0 +the rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . ,1 +the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0 +the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1 +"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",0 +like a south-of-the-border melrose place . ,1 +a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't save . ,0 +"i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0 +a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . ,1 +"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . ",0 +"director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . ",1 +"like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . ",0 +"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . ",1 +this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . ,1 +more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . ,0 +"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . ",0 +"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . ",0 +the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0 +"filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . ",1 +two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . ,0 +will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? ,0 +"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1 +"you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . ",1 +every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . ,0 +absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0 +"a classy , sprightly spin on film . ",1 +adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . ,0 +the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aesop,1 +"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1 +"a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . ",0 +a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . ,0 +"this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . ",0 +"haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0 +"some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . ",0 +do not see this film . ,0 +"what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1 +i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . ,1 +but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . ,1 +ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies . ,0 +"best indie of the year , so far . ",1 +"a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . ",1 +a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1 +"klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . ",0 +it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . ,0 +"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0 +the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . ,1 +the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . ,0 +"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",1 +culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . ,0 +"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1 +" . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the true film buff will enjoy . ",1 +"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . ",0 +"the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",1 +"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . ",1 +"as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . ",1 +"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",0 +a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . ,0 +"the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . ",0 +a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0 +this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . ,1 +"if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . ",0 +director clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . ,0 +i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . ,0 +admirably ambitious but self-indulgent . ,0 +the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . ,1 +"its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway . ",1 +"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . ",1 +"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1 +astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . ,1 +"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . ",0 +the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0 +"as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0 +"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0 +fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . ,1 +"as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . ",0 +there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . ,0 +this is a superior horror flick . ,1 +"a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . ",0 +"a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . ",0 +"nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0 +steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1 +the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . ,0 +"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . ",1 +"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",0 +"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . ",0 +"a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . ",1 +it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . ,0 +there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . ,0 +rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . ,0 +"this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . ",1 +the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever made . ,0 +it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . ,1 +"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . ",1 +"one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0 +"like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ",0 +"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama , romance , tragedy , bravery , political intrigue , partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! ",1 +robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . ,1 +"nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0 +"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . ",0 +"its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . ",0 +audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . ,0 +"engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . ",1 +pretty good little movie . ,1 +"mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival . ",1 +swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . ,0 +"with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wins . ",0 +it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it . ,0 +"a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking . ",0 +"if you like quirky , odd movies and/or the ironic , here's a fun one . ",1 +the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . ,0 +"reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . ",1 +"it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . ",0 +light years/ several warp speeds/ levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . ,1 +"a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . ",1 +your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . ,1 +scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . ,1 +"the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . ",0 +"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1 +"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . ",0 +[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . ,0 +"it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1 +"an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . ",0 +steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . ,1 +"alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . ",1 +director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1 +the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0 +"if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . ",1 +"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . ",0 +essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty . ,0 +it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . ,0 +it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0 +it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . ,1 +"the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . ",0 +what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . ,0 +"a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . ",0 +"eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . ",0 +"if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . ",1 +"blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . ",1 +could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a word : no . ,1 +"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . ",1 +it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . ,1 +"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . ",0 +"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1 +an awkward and indigestible movie . ,0 +a very capable nailbiter . ,1 +is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? ,0 +"lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",1 +"the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . ",0 +this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . ,0 + . . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . ,1 +such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . ,0 +"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . ",0 +"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . ",0 +"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1 +the stories here suffer from the chosen format . ,0 +a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1 +"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0 +the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bad rap . ,0 +there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming . ,0 +"shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . ",0 +"a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . ",0 +"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . ",0 +"neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . ",1 +uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos . ,1 +has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool . ,0 +"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 . ",0 +psychologically savvy . ,1 +"witty , vibrant , and intelligent . ",1 +a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . ,1 +"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new . ",1 +brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition . ,1 +"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0 +"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai",0 +"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1 +this film biggest problem ? no laughs . ,0 +tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard . ,1 +"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0 +delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . ,1 +"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . ",1 +a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrap things up and send the viewers home . ,0 +"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 . ",1 +many insightful moments . ,1 +"too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . ",0 +"boisterous , heartfelt comedy . ",1 +"sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . ",1 +effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1 +denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1 +"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1 +a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book . ,1 +this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . ,0 +"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . ",1 +"for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! ",1 +"open-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1 +"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . ",1 +"for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . ",0 +"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . ",0 +the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . ,1 +"claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0 + . . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . ,1 +"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1 +irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . ,0 +"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . ",1 +"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0 +nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ',1 +a very funny movie . ,1 +"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0 +"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . ",0 +"as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . ",0 +"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . ",1 +"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0 +"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 . ",0 +"a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . ",0 +the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . ,1 +that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . ,1 +"piccoli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0 +"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1 +"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1 +"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",0 +"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . ",0 +"director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of "" the longest yard "" playbook like a checklist . ",0 +fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ,0 +"foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . ",1 +"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . ",1 +"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . ",0 +"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . ",1 +a true pleasure . ,1 +the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0 +plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0 +"like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . ",0 +the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0 +"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1 +"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",0 +" . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . ",1 +"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . ",0 +rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . ,0 +"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . ",0 +"the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1 +"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . ",1 +"the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0 +"even as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . ",0 +there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . ,0 +tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0 +a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . ,0 +"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . ",1 +the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ,0 +the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission . ,1 +"certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . ",0 +"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . ",0 +a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . ,0 +"in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . ",1 +"dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . ",1 +"lacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . ",0 +"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . ",0 +"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . ",1 +"you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . ",1 +"fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . ",0 +"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . ",0 +"k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . ",1 +"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy",1 +"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . ",1 +"a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . ",1 +"a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . ",1 +"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",0 +a half-assed film . ,0 +eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ,0 +"compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph . ",1 +thin period piece . ,0 +"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats . ",1 +a negligible british comedy . ,0 +at once half-baked and overheated . ,0 +jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . ,1 +the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1 +the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . ,0 +"after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . ",0 +"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0 +"if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . ",1 +"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . ",0 +this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0 +"the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . ",1 +as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . ,1 +the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . ,1 +gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . ,0 +"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . ",1 +"predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ",0 +"with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . ",1 +"giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . ",1 +this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . ,0 +technically and artistically inept . ,0 +weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . ,1 +"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0 +two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0 +a bodice-ripper for intellectuals . ,1 +"by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . ",1 +a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . ,0 +"none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0 +"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . ",1 +"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . ",0 +part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . ,1 +"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0 +it's fairly self-aware in its dumbness . ,1 +bad company . bad movie . just plain bad . ,0 +"a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . ",1 +"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0 +"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . ",0 +"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . ",1 +it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . ,0 + . . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . ,0 +"you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1 +"the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l . a . beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults . ",1 +"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . ",1 +"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",1 +generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . ,1 +it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . ,0 +reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . ,1 +"cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . ",0 +a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . ,0 +a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . ,1 +just how these families interact may surprise you . ,1 +"a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . ",1 +nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . ,0 +"in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . ",1 +represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . ,1 +"too slow , too long and too little happens . ",0 +"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . ",1 +"e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . ",1 +there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale . ,0 +"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . ",1 +"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . ",1 +"even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . ",0 +like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1 +"a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1 +"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0 +'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . ,0 +"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . ",0 +"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1 +"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . ",0 +"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",1 +"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . ",1 +"reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . ",0 +"when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",1 +"like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",0 +"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . ",0 +"halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . ",0 +time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1 +a beautiful paean to a time long past . ,1 +"sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . ",1 +"even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . ",0 +"a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . ",1 +"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental . ",0 +that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ,1 +i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1 +"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1 +a wildly funny prison caper . ,1 +"some of it is clever , but it is never melodic/",0 +it's a count for our times . ,1 +"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved",0 +"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . ",1 +the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . ,0 +"a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . ",1 +"a comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . ",1 +"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , "" dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . ",0 +"broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . ",1 +"below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . ",1 +it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . ,0 +"yet another genre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . ",0 +"a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full price . ",0 +"in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . ",1 +horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . ,0 +"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0 +"christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . ",0 +the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . ,0 +there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid,0 +a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . ,1 +the film is insightful about kissinger's background and history . ,1 +"if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . ",1 +an elegant and sly deadpan comedy . ,1 +"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0 +a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . ,0 +"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . ",1 +i simply can't recommend it enough . ,1 +"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . ",0 +"formulaic to the 51st power , more like . ",0 +"one thing's for sure—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . ",0 +a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . ,0 +"a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0 +"ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . ",0 +"full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . ",1 +it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair . ,1 +"choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0 +"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life . ",1 +remember when bond had more glamour than clamor ? no more . ,0 +"a smart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . ",1 +"by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1 +"[a] wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting . ",1 +"offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . ",1 +there's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . ,0 +"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . ",1 +sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . ,1 +oozes condescension from every pore . ,0 +"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . ",1 +"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1 +"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0 +"laughably , irredeemably awful . ",0 +"a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0 +"despite the predictable parent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at "" the real americans "" make this a charmer . ",1 +feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1 +"a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",0 +coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . ,0 +"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",1 +"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . ",1 +"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . ",1 +stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . ,1 +its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . ,0 +"by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . ",0 +captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . ,1 + . . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . ,0 +davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is . ,0 +it's probably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . ,0 +bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . ,1 +an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0 +lawrence preaches strictly to the converted . ,0 +"swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . ",0 +"the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . ",1 +"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1 +there's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . ,1 +just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . ,0 +"less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . ",0 +"miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . ",1 +"k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0 +"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1 +a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . ,0 +everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ,0 +" . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . ",1 +"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",0 +"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . ",0 +much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever . ,1 +confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . ,1 +"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wheels . ",0 +"as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0 +"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1 +"wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . ",1 +a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . ,1 +"the film is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are . ",1 +haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . ,1 +disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0 +the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots . ,0 +"just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else . ",0 +"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",1 +a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . ,0 +"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . ",1 +possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio . ,0 +"even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1 +"it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . ",1 +"several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . ",0 +"talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0 +newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0 +"solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . ",0 +"cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time . ",0 +"my big fat greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",1 +you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . ,0 +australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . ,1 +an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1 +"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1 +"everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . ",0 +"watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . ",0 +"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1 +best described as i know what you did last winter . ,0 +"fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",1 +un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la première image . ,0 +imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ,0 +this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . ,1 +"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . ",1 +"a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection . ",1 +jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . ,1 +"thoughtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun . ",1 +"it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1 +"see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . ",1 +"muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . ",1 +"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1 +"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 . '",1 +"this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . ",1 +pumpkin wants to have it both ways . ,0 +"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . ",1 +it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year . ,1 +"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . ",1 +"the fourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . ",1 +shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom . ,0 +"delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . ",1 +"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes . the problem is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",0 +"the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . ",0 +"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",0 +was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ? ,0 +lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . ,0 +the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . ,0 +australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . ,1 +"if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . ",0 +" . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1 +there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0 +"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0 +a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . ,0 +it's fitfully funny but never really takes off . ,0 +some movies are like a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . ,1 +his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . ,1 +"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0 +"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . ",1 +a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1 +intimate and panoramic . ,1 +"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , "" the sum of all fears . "" ",0 +"there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . ",0 +what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0 +"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? ",0 +i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . ,0 +arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . ,0 +windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . ,1 +a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1 +" "" the tuxedo "" should have been the vehicle for chan that "" the mask "" was for jim carrey . alas , it's the man that makes the clothes . ",0 +"ash wednesday is not edward burns' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today . ",1 +"adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0 +stale and clichéd to a fault . ,0 +there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0 +psychologically revealing . ,1 +there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . ,1 +"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1 +little more than a frothy vanity project . ,0 +the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . ,1 +"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1 +"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1 +"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . ",0 +"the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . ",1 +wait for it to hit cable . ,0 +"it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . ",0 +deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant . ,1 +insufferably naive . ,0 +what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . ,0 +"be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook . ",1 +"branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . ",1 +"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! ",1 +merci pour le movie . ,1 +an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . ,0 +"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0 +"to the degree that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . ",1 +a little too pat for its own good . ,0 +the story ultimately takes hold and grips hard . ,1 +a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . ,1 +"there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . ",1 +"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . ",0 +"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser . ",0 +"the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . ",0 +"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . ",1 +"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1 +"like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . ",1 +"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . ",0 +"as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . ",0 +"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1 +"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . ",0 +screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . ,0 +"god is great , the movie's not . ",0 +"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . ",1 +"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . ",0 +a movie with a real anarchic flair . ,1 +"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . ",0 +"if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . ",1 +"it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1 +"based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . ",1 +"meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",1 +" . . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . ",0 +"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0 +"aside from showing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'",0 +"there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1 +"a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1 +"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . ",1 +it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1 +read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . ,1 +woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . ,1 +"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , "" the sting . "" ",0 +it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . ,0 +one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . ,1 +so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . ,0 +it tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ,0 +too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . ,0 +"high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . ",1 +the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . ,1 +an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind,1 +"it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1 +"like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . ",1 + . . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . ,0 +[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . ,0 +"for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . ",0 +make like the title and dodge this one . ,0 +this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . ,1 +"a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . ",1 +"payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . ",0 +"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . ",0 +"the most horrific movie experience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painful . ",0 +"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear . ",0 +"with "" ichi the killer "" , takashi miike , japan's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ",1 +"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",0 +"parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . ",0 +a literate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . ,1 +"here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1 +"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 . ",0 +there's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1 +"all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . ",1 +what would jesus do if he was a film director ? he'd create a movie better than this . ,0 +"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ",0 +viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . ,0 +kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . ,1 +the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . ,0 +"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0 +the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ,0 +"tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . ",1 +"it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . ",0 +"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama",1 +"visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . ",1 +"a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . ",0 +"first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0 +"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1 +we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . ,0 +"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . ",1 +"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1 +how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . ,0 +"terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",1 +"a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . ",1 +"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1 +broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . ,1 +chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . ,0 +"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . ",1 +at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . ,1 + . . . too dull to enjoy . ,0 +"this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",0 +the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enough . ,1 +"béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1 +"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . ",1 +director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0 +the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . ,1 +this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . ,0 +an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't . ,1 +"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . ",0 +"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0 +"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . ",1 +"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . ",1 +a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . ,0 +smart and taut . ,1 +"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",1 +a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . ,1 +"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . ",1 +hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . ,1 +a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1 +a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ,0 +"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . ",1 +"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1 +behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . ,1 +" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . ",0 +there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memory . ,1 +"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",1 +"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . ",1 +by-the-numbers yarn . ,0 +an asian neo-realist treasure . ,1 +"amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . ",0 +"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . ",1 +"the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . ",0 +"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0 +rifkin's references are . . . impeccable throughout . ,1 +" "" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "" ",0 +this is more a case of 'sacre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . ,0 +"the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . ",1 +"a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0 +breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . ,0 +"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . ",1 +"it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . ",0 +this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . ,0 +"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? '",0 +allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today . ,1 +"this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . ",1 +aan opportunity wasted . ,0 +suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . ,1 +"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has – ironically - distanced us from the characters . ",1 +despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . ,1 +the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . ,0 +"unpretentious , charming , quirky , original",1 +the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1 +"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",0 +"pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0 +this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ,0 +"this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . ",1 +"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . ",0 +"authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . ",0 +"this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . ",0 +"it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0 +nothing is sacred in this gut-buster . ,1 +"the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . ",1 +"told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0 +"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0 +the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . ,0 +"a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . ",0 +"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . ",1 +"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . ",0 +"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . ",1 +the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . ,1 +"building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . ",1 +"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . ",0 +"painful to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . ",1 +at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . ,0 +"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0 +eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . ,0 +it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . ,0 +"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . ",0 +"sly , sophisticated and surprising . ",1 + . . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . ,0 +"there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . ",1 +"it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0 +the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . ,0 +"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . ",1 +"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . ",0 +"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . ",1 +"uplifting , funny and wise . ",1 +"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . ",1 +a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . ,0 +dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . ,1 +ah-nuld's action hero days might be over . ,0 +'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ',0 +"for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",1 +[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . ,0 +"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . ",0 +"this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . ",1 +"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . ",0 +" . curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",0 +"if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0 +"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . ",0 +the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . ,0 +"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . ",1 +"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . ",0 +"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . ",0 +"at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . ",1 +it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . ,0 +"scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . ",0 +the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . ,1 +"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veronique . ",1 +"the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1 +"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",1 +"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . ",1 +"for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . ",0 +feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0 +[seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . ,0 +"the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . ",0 +"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . ",1 +enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1 +"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1 +"unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . ",1 +it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding,0 +this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . ,0 +alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . ,1 +"filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1 +"what time is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it . ",1 +"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1 +it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . ,1 +the story has little wit and no surprises . ,0 +no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . ,0 +well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ,1 +brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . ,1 +what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . ,0 +"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . ",0 +"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . ",1 +"an ugly , revolting movie . ",0 +"leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1 +sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . ,0 +"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . ",1 +"purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . ",0 +"the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . ",0 +eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spike lee . ,1 +a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . ,1 +boring and meandering . ,0 +a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1 +"a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . ",0 +it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . ,1 +a fascinating but choppy documentary . ,0 +"the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . ",1 +"it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . ",0 +"trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0 +the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . ,1 +a charmer from belgium . ,1 +fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1 +"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . ",0 +"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . ",1 +"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1 + . . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . ,1 +" . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable . ",1 +the thing looks like a made-for-home-video quickie . ,0 +"a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism . ",1 +the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . ,1 +"the french director has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . ",0 +" . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1 +"not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . ",1 +"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",1 +"a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . ",1 +a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . ,0 +"it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . ",0 +"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0 +"it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's head",1 +"this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie . ",0 +"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . ",1 +"a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . ",0 +"exhilarating , funny and fun . ",1 +barely gets off the ground . ,0 +mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life,1 +"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise . ",1 +"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0 +'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 . ',1 +"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . ",1 +roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . ,1 +"fierce , glaring and unforgettable . ",1 +"a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work . ",1 +"special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . ",1 +writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ,1 +"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . ",1 +here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ,1 +some may choose to interpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darker . ,1 +director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . ,0 +"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1 +weird . rewarding . ,1 +"circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . ",0 +an unexpectedly sweet story of sisterhood . ,1 +"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1 +the picture doesn't know it's a comedy . ,0 +"it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television . ",0 +it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . ,1 +"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . ",0 +majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident . ,1 +"shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . ",0 +not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0 +"the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . ",1 +as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . ,1 +"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . ",1 +"it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that's often written off as indie film naturalism . ",0 +no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . ,0 +"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1 +it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . ,1 +discursive but oddly riveting documentary . ,1 +"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . ",0 +an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . ,0 +what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? ,0 +"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0 +the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre . ,1 +"same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1 +"there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . ",0 +"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0 +what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . ,0 +a moving and important film . ,1 +"none of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funny . ",0 +michel piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . ,1 +"smart , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . ",1 +"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . ",1 + . . . comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental . ,0 +a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . ,1 +a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . ,1 +"windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . ",1 +not once does it come close to being exciting . ,0 +"no movement , no yuks , not much of anything . ",0 +a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0 +"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",0 +what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . ,1 +"sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0 +a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . ,0 +"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",1 +"it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that . ",0 +"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , though . ",1 +"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . ",1 +"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0 +faultlessly professional but finally slight . ,0 +i couldn't recommend this film more . ,1 +" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",0 +"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory . ",0 +" . . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . ",1 +" "" 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 . ",0 +a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . ,1 +"it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0 +"believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",1 +the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0 +if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0 +the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0 +"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",0 +"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0 +as plain and pedestrian as catsup--,0 +"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . ",1 +"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . ",1 +"blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . ",0 +"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1 +some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . ,0 +this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . ,1 +"apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . ",0 +"[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . ",1 +"borrows a bit from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extremities "" . . . but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . ",1 +"a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . ",1 +lurid and less than lucid work . ,0 +"a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . ",0 +a true-blue delight . ,1 +happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . ,1 +"real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1 +"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . ",0 +"no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . ",0 +" . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . ",1 +"the movie has a soft , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense . ",1 +one funny popcorn flick . ,1 +there's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . ,1 +"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . ",1 +the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . ,0 +worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal',1 +"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility . ",1 +maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . ,1 +"the movie isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here . ",1 +the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . ,0 +nervous breakdowns are not entertaining . ,0 +if only merchant paid more attention the story . ,0 +"this is as lax and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . ",0 +"the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first quarter . ",0 +what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . ,0 +even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0 +a dreadful live-action movie . ,0 +it's an offbeat treat that pokes fun at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take part . ,1 +"a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0 +a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . ,1 +"a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0 +fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation . ,1 +"the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . ",1 +"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . ",1 +what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . ,0 +what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1 +"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1 +"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel something . ",1 +"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events . ",1 +the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . ,0 +canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . ,1 +unflinchingly bleak and desperate,1 + . . . begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully . ,1 +highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ,1 +"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0 +one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . ,0 +"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . ",0 + . . . always remains movingly genuine . ,1 +"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . ",0 +"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",0 +a somewhat disappointing and meandering saga . ,0 +snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0 +"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1 +i'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . ,1 +"the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0 +what a great way to spend 4 units of your day . ,1 +"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . ",0 +"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . ",0 +"aside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . ",1 +"in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . ",0 +"[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . ",0 +they should have called it gutterball . ,0 +"the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1 +"s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . ",1 +it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room . ,1 +the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . ,0 +"the lower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . ",0 +"maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . ",1 +"if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . ",0 +"beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . ",1 +"sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1 +"they're going through the motions , but the zip is gone . ",0 +you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance . ,1 +offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . ,1 +" "" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store "" ",0 +many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . ,1 +"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . ",0 +"this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . ",1 +one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . ,0 +"she may not be real , but the laughs are . ",1 +aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . ,0 +"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0 +i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . ,1 +manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ,1 +hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . ,0 +this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . ,1 +historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . ,0 +"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . ",1 +ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city . ,1 +suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0 +"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . ",1 +"mr . wollter and ms . seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . ",0 +"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . ",1 +it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . ,0 +"return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . ",1 +goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1 +a fascinating and fun film . ,1 +"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . ",0 +a deep and meaningful film . ,1 +"the new faces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . ",0 +"harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1 +rashomon-for-dipsticks tale . ,0 +"the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . ",0 +"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . ",1 +"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . ",0 +the story itself is actually quite vapid . ,0 +just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . ,1 +overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of taste . ,0 +it's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . ,1 +an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . ,1 +mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . ,1 +" "" the quiet american "" begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . ",1 +"all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . ",0 +an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . ,1 +"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . ",0 +may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1 +it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller's rush . ,0 +"the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . ",0 +the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . ,1 +it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel . ,1 +you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . ,1 +may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . ,0 +anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0 +"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . ",0 +[t]oo many of these gross out scenes . . . ,0 +"the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers . ",1 +completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . ,0 +a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine . ,1 +"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1 +"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0 +" . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1 +"basically , it's pretty but dumb . ",0 +"sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ",0 +" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny . ",1 +despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . ,0 +"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . ",1 +"there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there . ",0 +"the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . ",1 +"skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . ",0 +"from the opening strains of the average white band's "" pick up the pieces "" , you can feel the love . ",1 +"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . ",1 +"it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . ",1 +"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . ",0 +hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . ,1 +"too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . ",0 +"trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead . ",0 +"the audacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1 +"the movie feels like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . ",0 +"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1 +'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0 +"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1 +writer/director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . ,1 +"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . ",0 +surprisingly insightful,1 +"a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . ",1 +"by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . ",1 +wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . ,1 +"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . ",1 +"the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . ",0 +"the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . ",0 +the story's pathetic and the gags are puerile . ,0 +a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0 +"it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1 +a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . ,1 +"despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . ",0 +"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . ",0 +"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . ",1 +"while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . ",1 +"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . ",1 +"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . ",1 +maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements . ,1 +leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . ,0 +the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . ,1 +i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0 +"it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . ",0 +"although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . ",1 +"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . ",1 + . . . wise and elegiac . . . ,1 +"k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . ",1 +not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . ,0 +"13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas . ",1 +stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . ,0 +reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . ,1 +"the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end . ",1 +"'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '",1 +"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0 +"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1 +"a moving essay about the specter of death , especially suicide . ",1 +"everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . ",1 +"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . ",1 +"a wry , affectionate delight . ",1 +"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . ",0 +"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0 +"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . ",0 +i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . ,1 +nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years . ,1 +there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . ,1 +the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . ,0 +"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",0 +"it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1 +"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0 +"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0 +" . . . once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . ",1 +"given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . ",0 +"harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . ",1 +"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1 +take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . ,1 +reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . ,1 +"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . ",1 +"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . ",0 +"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . ",0 +"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0 +"i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . ",0 +"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1 +under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . ,0 +what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1 +the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ,1 +"a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . ",0 +"frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . ",0 +"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . ",1 +"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . ",1 +"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . ",1 +"it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . ",0 +"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . ",1 +a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour running time . ,1 +a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ,0 +"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . ",0 +'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0 +"in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . ",1 +the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0 +"instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . ",0 +why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0 +"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . ",0 +"blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",0 +a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . ,1 +the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . ,1 +otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye . ,1 +"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . ",0 +puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1 +vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1 +"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . ",0 +"twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . ",1 +"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1 +"not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . ",0 +"the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed . ",1 +a modest masterpiece . ,1 +"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer . ",1 +"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1 +chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . ,0 +its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . ,1 +"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . ",1 +"if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . ",0 +"by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . ",1 +"the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",0 +"too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . ",0 +too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous premise . ,0 +it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0 +there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0 +"wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . ",1 +plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . ,0 +this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . ,1 +cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . ,1 +it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . ,0 +"sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . ",1 +"try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . ",0 +"manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0 +"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0 +the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . ,1 +" . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . ",1 +to say this was done better in wilder's some like it hot is like saying the sun rises in the east . ,0 +"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . ",0 +" the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . ",1 +"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",0 +it's stylishly directed with verve . . . ,1 +" ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . ",1 +"a solid , psychological action film from hong kong . ",1 +"falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0 +"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . ",0 +touché ! ,1 +the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance . ,1 +"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",0 +"the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . ",1 +" . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . ",0 +this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . ,1 +"a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . ",1 +"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . ",0 +the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . ,1 +noyce has worked wonders with the material . ,1 +the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . ,0 +eckstraordinarily lame and severely boring . ,0 +"movie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction . ",0 +it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . ,0 +this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . ,0 +"an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . ",1 +does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . ,0 +"scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . ",0 +i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers . ,0 +"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1 +holden caulfield did it better . ,0 +nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . ,0 +jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . ,0 +will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1 +"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . ",1 +"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the world . ",1 +"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . ",0 +inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . ,0 +"an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do . ",1 +"as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",1 +alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . ,0 +this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting still . ,0 +"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . ",0 +funny and touching . ,1 +"one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . ",1 +"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . ",0 +"if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . ",1 +one of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1 +this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . ,0 +"merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . ",0 +"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . ",0 +"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",1 +"at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , "" i guess i come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . "" congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! ",1 +"it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . ",1 +real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0 +"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0 +"nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . ",0 +"while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . ",1 +"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . ",1 +"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . ",1 +"a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore . ",0 +cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . ,1 +a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . ,0 +"if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you . ",0 +"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . ",1 +ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0 +"call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1 +"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism . ",0 +what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? ,0 +"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0 +a manically generous christmas vaudeville . ,1 +while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . ,1 +there's something about a marching band that gets me where i live . ,1 +"insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",1 +a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . ,1 +"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1 +"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy . ",1 +"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fun . ",1 +"it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . ",1 +"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project . ",1 +"matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . ",0 +"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . ",1 +"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . ",0 +"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . ",1 +"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . ",0 +"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0 +"intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . ",1 +rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories . ,0 +every so often a movie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0 +"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . ",0 +"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all . ",1 +the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . ,0 +"feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . ",0 +"this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . ",1 +"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . ",0 +"schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . ",0 +rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . ,0 +"a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . ",1 +"as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1 +secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . ,1 +" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1 +"though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",1 +"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . ",0 +"[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . ",1 +"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",0 +"a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies . ",0 +not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . ,1 +"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1 +i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . ,0 +"think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . ",1 +"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . ",0 +the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich . ,1 +os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . ,1 +"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . ",0 +the kind of nervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . ,1 +would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . ,0 +doesn't add up to much . ,0 +feral and uncomfortable . ,1 +"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",1 +"a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . ",0 +"it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",1 +"the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . ",1 +there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0 +the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . ,0 +ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0 +"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . ",1 +"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1 +"a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1 +"this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . ",1 +a funny film . ,1 +"i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . ",0 +"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . ",1 +alternately frustrating and rewarding . ,0 +the best film of the year 2002 . ,1 +"it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . ",1 +"stale , futile scenario . ",0 +"a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its source material . ",1 +"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . ",1 +a cockeyed shot all the way . ,0 +"there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . never quite settles on either side . ",0 +adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . ,1 +either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . ,1 +the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways . ,1 +"devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . ",1 +murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0 +"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . ",1 +two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . ,1 +"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 . ",1 +"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . ",0 +"if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . ",1 +a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . ,0 +"the best movie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . ",1 +"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor , napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1 +barely goes beyond comic book status . ,0 +"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0 +an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection . ,1 +"like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . ",1 +"while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . ",1 +an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . ,1 +"a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . ",0 +it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid . ,1 +sex with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1 +a masterpiece four years in the making . ,1 +"a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . ",1 +"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . ",0 +"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0 +"ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hackles up . ",1 +"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 . ",1 +this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ,0 +"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1 +one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . ,1 +"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . ",0 +leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . ,0 +"guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . ",1 +"i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . ",0 +"appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never quite ignites . ",0 +"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0 +bouquet gives a performance that is masterly . ,1 +there are moments of hilarity to be had . ,1 +an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . ,1 +"because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",1 +"at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1 +" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1 +"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",1 +"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . ",0 +"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1 +"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whimsy . ",1 +one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . ,0 +starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . ,0 +"roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . ",0 +calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . ,0 +"too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks . ",0 + . . . silly humbuggery . . . ,0 +"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . ",1 +"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . "" ",0 +"thirty years ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . ",0 +the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details . ,1 +"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0 +a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . ,0 +"whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . ",1 +"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . ",1 +a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1 +"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . ",1 +a model of what films like this should be like . ,1 +an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . ,0 +"filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie",1 +"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . ",0 +"jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . ",0 +"national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . ",0 +i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . ,0 +the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . ,0 + . . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . ,1 +the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ,0 +"the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . ",0 +"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . ",0 +"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . ",0 +what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . ,0 +"it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0 +"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1 +episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0 +"for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1 +"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1 +"twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . ",1 +it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . ,1 +"muddled , trashy and incompetent",0 +the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . ,1 +"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing . ",0 +"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1 +those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . ,1 +"it's really yet another anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . ",0 +this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . ,1 +"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . ",1 +" it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . ",0 +nicole kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1 +a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films . ,1 +about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . ,0 +"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . ",0 +"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0 +nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . ,0 +"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . ",0 +"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1 +weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0 +"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . ",1 +baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . ,1 +"enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",1 +"vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . ",1 +"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0 +"like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . ",0 +"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . ",1 +"the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . ",0 +"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . ",0 +"wow , so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted ? ",1 +"the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . ",0 +makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1 +the bard as black comedy -- willie would have loved it . ,1 +"the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . ",0 +"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . ",0 +"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0 +"confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",1 +"full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1 +"jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1 +it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1 +"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . ",0 +the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer . ,1 +"i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . ",0 +there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0 +some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . ,1 +"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . ",1 +its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . ,0 +"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1 +"somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . ",0 +"when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0 +blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period . ,0 +"even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . ",0 +a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . ,1 +the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . ,0 +resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche . ,0 +"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . ",1 +ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! ,0 +an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . ,1 +"the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . ",0 +"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . ",1 +mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . ,1 +the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . ,0 +the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ,0 +"director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . ",0 +"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '",0 +an extremely unpleasant film . ,0 +"hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . ",1 +it drowns in sap . ,0 +malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . ,0 +the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1 +"cassavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . ",0 +it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . ,1 +"at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1 +jagger the actor is someone you want to see again . ,1 +it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . ,0 +two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . ,1 +horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . ,0 +"diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . ",0 +mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0 +"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",0 +a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . ,0 +the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . ,1 +cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . ,0 +"delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . ",1 +toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1 +"it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . ",0 +this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . ,0 +"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors . ",0 +less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . ,0 +"it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . ",1 +the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . ,0 +"just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . ",0 +"ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . ",0 +a french film with a more down-home flavor . ,1 +"thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",1 +"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0 +"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0 + . . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1 +tailored to entertain ! ,1 +"it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1 +"fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0 +the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 guys . ,0 +lightweight but appealing . ,1 +"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . ",0 +the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . ,1 +"yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0 +the problem isn't that the movie hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . ,0 +"it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . ",0 +that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ,1 +ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . ,0 +there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . ,1 +"mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",0 +"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . ",0 +a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners . ,1 +we haven't seen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! ,0 +"mr . tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor . ",1 +"in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . ",1 +the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly surprise . ,1 +"everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . ",0 +the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . ,0 +"is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? ",0 +"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . ",1 +a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1 +"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1 +denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances,1 + . . . an interesting slice of history . ,1 +"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . ",0 +disjointed parody . ,0 +"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . ",0 +"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . ",1 +fluffy and disposible . ,0 +"jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . ",1 +hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . ,1 +a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . ,1 +so-so entertainment . ,0 +"like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . ",0 +better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine . ,0 +an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . ,1 +the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9/11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . ,0 +"en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . ",1 +demands too much of most viewers . ,0 +"is "" ballistic "" worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previous answer . ",0 +"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1 +"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0 +"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0 \ No newline at end of file