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0	But unless you're an absolute raving Star Wars junkie, it isn't much fun.
1	Promises is one film that's truly deserving of its Oscar nomination.
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	It's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts Blue Crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies.
1	A powerful, inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith, and about hatred that offers no easy, comfortable resolution.
1	Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative, but he does display an original talent.
0	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.
0	Halfway through, however, having sucked dry the undead action flick formula, Blade II mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary.
1	The otherwise good-naturedness of Mr. Deeds, with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely New York celebrities ... certainly raises the film above anything Sandler's been attached to before.
1	All the pieces fall together without much surprise, but little moments give it a boost.
0	To get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of Dr. Freud.
1	A remarkable film by Bernard Rose.
0	Overly long and worshipful bio-doc.
1	It's the sweet Cinderella story that "Pretty Woman" wanted to be.
1	A delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by Michael Gondry.
0	It appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept.
1	A tone of rueful compassion ... reverberates throughout this film, whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events.
0	A mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic Jackie Chan to even younger audiences.
0	It desperately wants to be a wacky, screwball comedy, but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time.
1	Both Grant and Hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed, assured of the wrong things, and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others.
1	I liked the movie, but I know I would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further.
1	Wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message.
0	The threat implied in the title Pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming.
0	Flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool, but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding Equilibrium up.
0	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.
1	A moving story of determination and the human spirit.
1	There is greatness here.
1	Lovely and Amazing is Holofcener's deep, uncompromising curtsy to women she knows, and very likely is.
1	I liked this film a lot...
1	Demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful, subjective filmmaking.
0	Although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original, the first film's lovely flakiness is gone, replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks.
0	But they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail.
1	a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "Memento"
1	Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective.
1	On that score, the film certainly doesn't disappoint.
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.
1	It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up.
1	You can almost see Mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing, 'This is going to be something really good.'
0	A negligible British comedy.
1	Great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex.
1	Beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling...recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly.
1	, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly.
1	There has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but Peter Mattei's Love in the Time of Money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive (if tragic) note.
1	Children and adults enamored of all things Pokemon won't be disappointed.
0	You'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie.
0	Little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ... is no doubt true, but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable.
1	Like Edward Norton in American History X, Ryan Gosling (Murder By Numbers) delivers a magnetic performance.
0	Despite bearing the Paramount imprint, it's a bargain-basement European pickup.
0	By the time you reach the finale, you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing.
0	A predictable, manipulative stinker.
0	...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.
1	A solid, psychological action film from Hong Kong.
0	A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.
1	It's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it.
0	A bad movie that happened to good actors.
0	Plays like John Le Carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.
0	...a rather bland affair.
1	Spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry.
1	By the standards of knucklehead swill, The Hot Chick is pretty damned funny.
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.
1	As action-adventure, this space-based homage to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island fires on all plasma conduits.
1	It's funny.
0	What an embarrassment.
0	I hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of High Art.
0	What makes Esther Kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony.
1	That old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in Morvern Callar.
1	Without resorting to camp or parody, Haynes (like Sirk, but differently) has transformed the rhetoric of Hollywood melodrama into something provocative, rich, and strange.
1	A thoroughly enjoyable, heartfelt coming-of-age comedy.
0	This is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the Cliff-Notes over reading a full-length classic.
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	It just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on (or be entertained by).
1	Although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of Spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse, the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching.
0	Sweet Home Alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of (Witherspoon's) better films.
0	The film is all over the place, really.
0	Has all the values of a straight-to-video movie, but because it has a bigger-name cast, it gets a full theatrical release.
0	...this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels.
0	Don't even bother to rent this on video.
0	If only Merchant paid more attention the story.
1	It's a glorious spectacle like those D.W. Griffith made in the early days of silent film.
0	The colorful Masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of Ganesh's rise up the social ladder.
0	(A) painfully flat gross-out comedy ...
1	Richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings.
0	Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot, but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan.
0	It is not the first time that director Sara Sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them.
1	Maybe not a classic, but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again.
1	Hugely entertaining from start to finish, featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves, it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected Hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels.
0	Franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler, but he does not give the transcendent performance SONNY needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic.
1	Even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks, it's still entertaining to watch the target practice.
1	Fans of the modern day Hong Kong action film finally have the worthy successor to A Better Tomorrow and The Killer which they have been patiently waiting for.
0	This is not an easy film.
0	A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged.
0	Some writer dude, I think his name was, uh, Michael Zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude, the only thing that I ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck.
1	It challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should.
1	While obviously aimed at kids, The Country Bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio.
0	The following things are not at all entertaining: The bad sound, the lack of climax and, worst of all, watching Seinfeld (who is also one of the film's producers) do everything he can to look like a good guy.
0	In its chicken heart, Crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises.
1	A heady, biting, be-bop ride through nighttime Manhattan, a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego.
0	Squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations, Burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare.
1	Skin Of Man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics, but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults.
1	As satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago...has a delightfully dour, deadpan tone and stylistic consistency.

0

But unless you're an absolute raving Star Wars junkie, it isn't much fun.

1

Promises is one film that's truly deserving of its Oscar nomination.

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

It's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts Blue Crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies.

1

A powerful, inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith, and about hatred that offers no easy, comfortable resolution.

1

Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative, but he does display an original talent.

0

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.

0

Halfway through, however, having sucked dry the undead action flick formula, Blade II mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary.

1

The otherwise good-naturedness of Mr. Deeds, with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely New York celebrities ... certainly raises the film above anything Sandler's been attached to before.

1

All the pieces fall together without much surprise, but little moments give it a boost.

0

To get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of Dr. Freud.

1

A remarkable film by Bernard Rose.

0

Overly long and worshipful bio-doc.

1

It's the sweet Cinderella story that "Pretty Woman" wanted to be.

1

A delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by Michael Gondry.

0

It appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept.

1

A tone of rueful compassion ... reverberates throughout this film, whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events.

0

A mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic Jackie Chan to even younger audiences.

0

It desperately wants to be a wacky, screwball comedy, but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time.

1

Both Grant and Hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed, assured of the wrong things, and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others.

1

I liked the movie, but I know I would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further.

1

Wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message.

0

The threat implied in the title Pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming.

0

Flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool, but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding Equilibrium up.

0

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.

1

A moving story of determination and the human spirit.

1

There is greatness here.

1

Lovely and Amazing is Holofcener's deep, uncompromising curtsy to women she knows, and very likely is.

1

I liked this film a lot...

1

Demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful, subjective filmmaking.

0

Although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original, the first film's lovely flakiness is gone, replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks.

0

But they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail.

1

a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "Memento"

1

Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective.

1

On that score, the film certainly doesn't disappoint.

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.

1

It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up.

1

You can almost see Mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing, 'This is going to be something really good.'

0

A negligible British comedy.

1

Great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex.

1

Beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling...recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly.

1

, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly.

1

There has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but Peter Mattei's Love in the Time of Money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive (if tragic) note.

1

Children and adults enamored of all things Pokemon won't be disappointed.

0

You'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie.

0

Little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ... is no doubt true, but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable.

1

Like Edward Norton in American History X, Ryan Gosling (Murder By Numbers) delivers a magnetic performance.

0

Despite bearing the Paramount imprint, it's a bargain-basement European pickup.

0

By the time you reach the finale, you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing.

0

A predictable, manipulative stinker.

0

...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.

1

A solid, psychological action film from Hong Kong.

0

A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.

1

It's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it.

0

A bad movie that happened to good actors.

0

Plays like John Le Carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.

0

...a rather bland affair.

1

Spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry.

1

By the standards of knucklehead swill, The Hot Chick is pretty damned funny.

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.

1

As action-adventure, this space-based homage to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island fires on all plasma conduits.

1

It's funny.

0

What an embarrassment.

0

I hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of High Art.

0

What makes Esther Kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony.

1

That old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in Morvern Callar.

1

Without resorting to camp or parody, Haynes (like Sirk, but differently) has transformed the rhetoric of Hollywood melodrama into something provocative, rich, and strange.

1

A thoroughly enjoyable, heartfelt coming-of-age comedy.

0

This is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the Cliff-Notes over reading a full-length classic.

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

It just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on (or be entertained by).

1

Although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of Spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse, the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching.

0

Sweet Home Alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of (Witherspoon's) better films.

0

The film is all over the place, really.

0

Has all the values of a straight-to-video movie, but because it has a bigger-name cast, it gets a full theatrical release.

0

...this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels.

0

Don't even bother to rent this on video.

0

If only Merchant paid more attention the story.

1

It's a glorious spectacle like those D.W. Griffith made in the early days of silent film.

0

The colorful Masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of Ganesh's rise up the social ladder.

0

(A) painfully flat gross-out comedy ...

1

Richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings.

0

Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot, but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan.

0

It is not the first time that director Sara Sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them.

1

Maybe not a classic, but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again.

1

Hugely entertaining from start to finish, featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves, it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected Hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels.

0

Franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler, but he does not give the transcendent performance SONNY needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic.

1

Even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks, it's still entertaining to watch the target practice.

1

Fans of the modern day Hong Kong action film finally have the worthy successor to A Better Tomorrow and The Killer which they have been patiently waiting for.

0

This is not an easy film.

0

A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged.

0

Some writer dude, I think his name was, uh, Michael Zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude, the only thing that I ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck.

1

It challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should.

1

While obviously aimed at kids, The Country Bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio.

0

The following things are not at all entertaining: The bad sound, the lack of climax and, worst of all, watching Seinfeld (who is also one of the film's producers) do everything he can to look like a good guy.

0

In its chicken heart, Crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises.

1

A heady, biting, be-bop ride through nighttime Manhattan, a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego.

0

Squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations, Burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare.

1

Skin Of Man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics, but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults.

1

As satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago...has a delightfully dour, deadpan tone and stylistic consistency.