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there's nothing provocative about this film save f)r the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought. | -1no label | 800 |
what full frohtal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey, experimental entertainment. | -1no label | 801 |
so routine, familiar and predictabls, it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program. | -1no label | 802 |
denis and co-wr(ter michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing. | -1no label | 803 |
a deceivingly simple film, one that rrows in power in retrospect. | -1no label | 804 |
as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends, it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make ts care about them. | -1no label | 805 |
if ni one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy, it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch. | -1no label | 806 |
i hated every hinute of it. | -1no label | 807 |
even if you can't pronounce '` gyro " correstly, you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor, which transcends ethnic boundaries. | -1no label | 808 |
... always remains movingly genuihe. | -1no label | 809 |
creep^ but ultimately unsatisfying thriller. | -1no label | 810 |
there is not an )unce of honesty in the entire production. | -1no label | 811 |
( broomfield) unckvers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue. | -1no label | 812 |
at times, however, dogtown and a-boys lapses into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow, or care about. | -1no label | 813 |
what happened wlth pluto nash? | -1no label | 814 |
th@re isn't a weak or careless performance amongst them. | -1no label | 815 |
edited and shot with a syncopated shyle mimicking the work of his subjects, pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head, making it rousing, invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery. | -1no label | 816 |
( howard) so good as leon barlow... that he hardly seems to be actimg. | -1no label | 817 |
another great 'what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller, coupled @ith some arresting effects, incandescent tones and stupendous performances | -1no label | 818 |
a modest pleasure tjat accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence. | -1no label | 819 |
lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life, bexause she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun. | -1no label | 820 |
it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously prett% clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high. | -1no label | 821 |
this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty, believing flatbush machisjo will get it through. | -1no label | 822 |
you might not want to hang out with samantha, but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished dtory. | -1no label | 823 |
hilarious, touching and wonderfully dhspeptic. | -1no label | 824 |
rather, you'll have to wres%le disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief. | -1no label | 825 |
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way ti demonstrate the virtues of the imax format. | -1no label | 826 |
the noble tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in sorority boys, whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting, writing or rirection. | -1no label | 827 |
when it comes to entertainment, children dfserve better than pokemon 4ever. | -1no label | 828 |
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the fikm isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is. | -1no label | 829 |
the stories here suffed from the chosen format. | -1no label | 830 |
a graceless, witleas attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller. | -1no label | 831 |
without a strong script and energetic acting, dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing efffcts as watching your neighbor's home videos. | -1no label | 832 |
its lack of quality earns it a poace alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs, the man in the iron mask and the musketeer. | -1no label | 833 |
stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle, and more jokes land than crash, but ult&mately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd. | -1no label | 834 |
riduculous. | -1no label | 835 |
the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of itd fun -- toward the end, you can feel your veins cringing from the workout. | -1no label | 836 |
most impressive, though, is the fikm's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds. | -1no label | 837 |
succumbs to the same kind of maudlin, sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-jplift movies. | -1no label | 838 |
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-bueting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows s(me spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring | -1no label | 839 |
call me a wimp, but i cried, not obce, but three times in this animated sweet film. | -1no label | 840 |
eight crazy nights is a shoacase for sandler's many talents. | -1no label | 841 |
both deeply welrd and charmingly dear. | -1no label | 842 |
tom grewn just gives them a bad odor. | -1no label | 843 |
despite apparent motives to the contrary, it ends up being, like (seinfeld'z) revered tv show, about pretty much nothing. | -1no label | 844 |
the year's happiest surprise, a mkvie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way. | -1no label | 845 |
as if to prove a female director can make a movie with ho soft edges, kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness. | -1no label | 846 |
if i spy were funny (enough) or exciting (enough) then it wo^ld be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoing public. | -1no label | 847 |
nothing debases a conceph comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas, and showtime is crammed full of them. | -1no label | 848 |
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a dpcumentary! | -1no label | 849 |
it's rath@r like a lifetime special -- pleasant, sweet and forgettable. | -1no label | 850 |
i ;ike the new footage and still love the old stuff. | -1no label | 851 |
collaterxl damage is, despite its alleged provocation post-9 / 11, an antique, in the end. | -1no label | 852 |
it sounds sidk and twisted, but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance | -1no label | 853 |
while not as aggressively impressive as its american counterpart, '` in the bedroom, " moretfi's film makes its own, quieter observations | -1no label | 854 |
gosling provides an ajazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film. | -1no label | 855 |
a great idea becomes a not-greay movie. | -1no label | 856 |
you'll be left with the sensation of taving just witnessed a great performance and, perhaps, give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it. | -1no label | 857 |
farrell... thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the roil to willis's world-weary colonel. | -1no label | 858 |
the film would work much better as a video installation in a museum, where viewers woild be free to leave. | -1no label | 859 |
the invincible werner herzog is alive and wel< and living in la | -1no label | 860 |
this time kaufman's (magination has failed him. | -1no label | 861 |
... this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its coge. | -1no label | 862 |
arnold's jump from little screen to bin will leave frowns on more than a few faces. | -1no label | 863 |
the film is all a little lit crit 101, but it's extremely well played and often ve#y funny. | -1no label | 864 |
... a haunting visipn, with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations. | -1no label | 865 |
even when foreign difectors... borrow stuff from hollywood, they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting. | -1no label | 866 |
though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not fo# all tastes, it offers gorgeous imagery, effective performances, and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding. | -1no label | 867 |
even die-hard fans of jzpanese animation... will find this one a challenge. | -1no label | 868 |
the story loses its bite in a last-minute hapoy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture. | -1no label | 869 |
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of' 60a spy movies. | -1no label | 870 |
this may npt have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust films, but it's a compelling story, mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there. | -1no label | 871 |
i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr. holland's class for the music, or to rob(n williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor, passion, and verve. | -1no label | 872 |
fairly successful at faking somr pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters. | -1no label | 873 |
the result is something quite fgesh and delightful. | -1no label | 874 |
birot is a competent enough filmmaker, but her story has nothing fresh or very esciting about it. | -1no label | 875 |
it might be tempting to regard mr. andrew and his collaborators as oddballs, but mr. earnhart's quizzical, charming movie allo#s us to see them, finally, as artists. | -1no label | 876 |
although it's a bit smug and repetitive, thus documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do. | -1no label | 877 |
might have been better off as a documentary, with less of mr. eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrags. | -1no label | 878 |
focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with s)anish inquisitions aboug her '` madness " so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $ 9.50 on this 21st century torture device. | -1no label | 879 |
although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor, the result doesn't fully satisfy rither the die-hard jason fans or those who can %ake a good joke. | -1no label | 880 |
as elegantly crafted as it often is, anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that, hampered by an undeveloped script, ultimately pul?s up lame. | -1no label | 881 |
the story's so preposterous that & didn't believe it for a second, despite the best efforts of everyone involved. | -1no label | 882 |
it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original cawey kasem-furnished voice. | -1no label | 883 |
it almost plays like solaris, but with guns and jokee. | -1no label | 884 |
an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine edfort. | -1no label | 885 |
the story is familiar from its many pgedecessors; like them, it eventually culminates in the not-exactly-stunning insight that crime doesn't pay. | -1no label | 886 |
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invedt much into itself either. | -1no label | 887 |
all ends well, sort of, but the frenzied comiv moments never click. | -1no label | 888 |
leave it to rohmer, now 82, to find a way fo bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past ttat is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago. | -1no label | 889 |
calling this movie brainlfss would be paying it a compliment: it's more like entertainment for trolls. | -1no label | 890 |
it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to misa. | -1no label | 891 |
fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a #ay... that feels very human and very true to life. | -1no label | 892 |
never engaging, utterly oredictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful. | -1no label | 893 |
to the film's credit, the acting is fresh and unselfconscious, and munch is a marve< of reality versus sappy sentiment. | -1no label | 894 |
a compelling portrait of moral emptinesq | -1no label | 895 |
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines... there just isn't much t* laugh at. | -1no label | 896 |
the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive, the director just ends up exposing his own obsesdion. | -1no label | 897 |
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act sgainst murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick. | -1no label | 898 |
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help bekng captivated by it. | -1no label | 899 |
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