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. . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 1 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . | 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 |
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . | 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 |
solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . | 1 |
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . | 0 |
often silly 聳 and gross 聳 but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . | 0 |
like a south-of-the-border melrose place . | 1 |
the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . | 0 |
. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . | 1 |
this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . | 0 |
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . | 0 |
it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . | 1 |
there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 0 |
solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke | 0 |
" the best disney movie since the lion king " | 1 |
whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . | 1 |
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . | 0 |
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 0 |
enduring love but exhausting cinema . | 0 |
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . | 1 |
this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! | 0 |
girls gone wild and gone civil again | 1 |
an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy . | 0 |
a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . | 1 |
the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . | 1 |
the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . | 0 |
the first bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . | 1 |
at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . | 1 |
not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . | 1 |
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . | 0 |
noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . | 1 |
freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . | 0 |
an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . | 1 |
the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . | 0 |
a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll . | 1 |
like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1 |
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . | 0 |
hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . | 1 |
from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . | 0 |
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . | 1 |
o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . | 1 |
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . | 0 |
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . | 0 |
the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . | 0 |
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . | 0 |
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . | 0 |
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 |
[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 |
a taut , sobering film . | 1 |
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today . | 1 |
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 |
maybe leblanc thought , " hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . " | 0 |
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . | 0 |
a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . | 1 |
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . | 1 |
try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . | 1 |
mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . | 1 |
using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . | 1 |
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 |
psychologically savvy . | 1 |
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . | 1 |
the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . | 0 |
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality | 1 |
there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . | 1 |
a slight but sweet film . | 1 |
the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers . | 1 |
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 |
a twisty , moody slice of southern gothic . . . | 1 |
[a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | 0 |
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . | 1 |
a painfully funny ode to bad behavior . | 1 |
a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy . | 0 |
this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . | 1 |
i'm just too bored to care . | 0 |
the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . | 1 |
i liked this film a lot . . . | 1 |
hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story . | 1 |
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . | 1 |
an extremely unpleasant film . | 0 |
there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . | 0 |
. . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . | 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 |
there's a lot to recommend read my lips . | 1 |
delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . | 1 |
the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . | 1 |
perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . | 1 |
about as satisfying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through . | 0 |
shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . | 0 |
it's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . | 0 |
craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . | 1 |
an awful snooze . | 0 |
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! | 0 |