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Even with its $50-million US budget, Pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture.
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Adam Sandler's heart may be in the right place, but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
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A genuine mind-bender.
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Just as the recent Argentine film Son of the Bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart, Time of Favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain.
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That frenetic spectacle (on the TV show) has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the Girls' big-screen blowout.
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Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable, Warm Water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy.
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She's all-powerful, a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness.
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Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating.
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This is a story that zings all the way through with originality, humour and pathos.
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What a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is!
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Too stagey, talky -- and long -- for its own good.
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As pure over-the-top trash, any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile.
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A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more.
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On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms, this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny.
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A clumsily manufactured exploitation flick, a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem.
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It lacks the compassion, good-natured humor and the level of insight that made (Eyre's) first film something of a sleeper success.
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Personally, I'd rather watch them on the Animal Planet.
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As commander-in-chief of this film, Bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world.
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An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere.
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The art demands live viewing.
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Paul Cox needed to show it.
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Astonishing...(frames) profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment.
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Although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events, the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters.
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A stirring road movie.
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Bursting through the constraints of its source, this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen.
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Even with all its botches, Enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment.
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The images lack contrast, are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable.
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There's real visual charge to the filmmaking, and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence.
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If you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you.
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City by the Sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for.
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Dismally dull sci-fi comedy.
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It's weird, wonderful, and not necessarily for kids.
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Executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity, with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted Scrooge could fail to respond.
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Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience.
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Grenier is terrific, bringing an unforced, rapid-fire delivery to Toback's Heidegger- and Nietzsche-referencing dialogue.
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Burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off.
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Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling (though no less horrifying for it).
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It's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the National Basketball Association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy Lil' Bow Wow.
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It labours as storytelling.
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A first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home, but your ego and all your problems go with you.
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The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome, with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations.
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It makes me say the obvious: Abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here.
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Festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you.
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Yes, I have given this movie a rating of zero.
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A buoyant romantic comedy about friendship, love, and the truth that we're all in this together.
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The locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches.
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An acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10, but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to McDonald's, let alone some savvy street activism.
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Those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them.
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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.
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Like a three-ring circus, there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable.
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A fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.
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Just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience.
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...one of the more influential works of the 'Korean New Wave'.
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The closest thing to the experience of space travel
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Right now, they're merely signposts marking the slow, lingering death of imagination.
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While easier to sit through than most of Jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films, it's still tainted by cliches, painful improbability and murky points.
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Bon appétit!
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As animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool, this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth.
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Boy, has this franchise ever run out of gas.
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The film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative.
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Two hours of junk.
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This is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer.
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I love the opening scenes of a wintry New York City in 1899.
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(D)espite its familiar subject matter, Ice Age is consistently amusing and engrossing ...
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Though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations, the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should.
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Alternative medicine obviously has its merits ... but Ayurveda does the field no favors.
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A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange.
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It's not as awful as some of the recent Hollywood trip tripe ... but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor.
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Infidelity drama is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by Diane Lane.
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A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties.
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Talkiness isn't necessarily bad, but the dialogue frequently misses the mark.
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But the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it, and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes.
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Not so much farcical as sour.
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Like life on the island, the movie grows boring despite the scenery.
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The material and the production itself are little more than routine.
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Aspires to the cracked lunacy of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
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Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise.
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When it's this rich and luscious, who cares?
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Informative, intriguing, observant, often touching...gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms.
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A compelling pre-WWII drama with vivid characters and a warm, moving message.
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A bizarre piece of work, with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy, rape and suspected murder
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At best, Cletis Tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience.
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Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience.
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What a concept, what an idea, what a thrill ride.
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Unlike most surf movies, Blue Crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave.
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Be forewarned, if you're depressed about anything before watching this film, you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards.
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It has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long past.
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It strikes hardest... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain.
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Most consumers of lo mein and General Tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it, so, hopefully, this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons.
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Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates, it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash.
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The nicest thing that can be said about Stealing Harvard (which might have been called Freddy Gets Molested by a Dog) is that it's not as obnoxious as Tom Green's Freddie Got Fingered.
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Ill-considered, unholy hokum.
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It's just merely very bad.
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A flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantile.
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Rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre, who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects.
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Trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie Snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible.
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The film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in Laramie following the murder of Matthew Shepard.
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This toothless Dog, already on cable, loses all bite on the big screen.
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This rich, bittersweet Israeli documentary, about the life of song-and-dance-man Pasach'ke Burstein and his family, transcends ethnic lines.
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Boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up, but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect.
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