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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . | where 's the movie here ? | 1 |
the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . | as a film director , labute continues to improve . | 0 |
full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . | pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . | 1 |
full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . | but the actors make this worth a peek . | 0 |
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale . | when your subject is illusion versus reality , should n't the reality seem at least passably real ? | 1 |
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale . | one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 0 |
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 1 |
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . | waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself . | 0 |
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 1 |
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | i like it . | 0 |
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . ' | undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos . | 1 |
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . ' | though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . | 0 |
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . | 1 |
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | ... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 0 |
the film is flat . | execrable . | 1 |
the film is flat . | the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . | 0 |
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 . | if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x. | 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 . | this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | 0 |
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | as a film director , labute continues to improve . | 1 |
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | 0 |
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . | a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 1 |
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . | it 's never dull and always looks good . | 0 |
where 's the movie here ? | make like the title and dodge this one . | 1 |
where 's the movie here ? | all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . | 0 |
the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental . | this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | 1 |
the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental . | whether or not you 're enlightened by any of derrida 's lectures on `` the other '' and `` the self , '' derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . | 0 |
and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . | even better than the first one ! | 1 |
and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . | everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . | 0 |
make like the title and dodge this one . | to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there 's no indication that he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . | 1 |
make like the title and dodge this one . | the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough . | 0 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself . | the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself . | though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . | 0 |
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . | 1 |
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . | 0 |
sly , sophisticated and surprising . | it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . | 1 |
sly , sophisticated and surprising . | first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . | 0 |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . | a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 1 |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . | it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | 0 |
everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . | so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | 1 |
everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . | there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | 0 |
the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it . | a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want . | 1 |
the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it . | i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . | 0 |
a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . | a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | 1 |
a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . | a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake . | 0 |
what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 1 |
what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . | 0 |
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with . | the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power . | 1 |
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with . | dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . | 0 |
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | little more than a well-mounted history lesson . | 1 |
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 0 |
you 'll know a star when you see one . | spielberg 's picture is smarter and subtler than -lrb- total recall and blade runner -rrb- , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . | 1 |
you 'll know a star when you see one . | an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades | 0 |
adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt | first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . | 1 |
adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt | the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . | 0 |
the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between . | spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . | 1 |
the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between . | a film of delicate interpersonal dances . | 0 |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . | it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . | 1 |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . | the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one -lrb- and no one -rrb- . | 0 |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | execrable . | 1 |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | a cutesy romantic tale with a twist . | 0 |
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . | a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy . | 1 |
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . | a modestly surprising movie . | 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 . | there 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . | 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 . | one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 0 |
nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . | but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . | 1 |
nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . | elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | 0 |
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . | imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . | 1 |
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . | a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . | 0 |
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 . | first-time director joão pedro rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . | 1 |
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 . | 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 . | 0 |
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . | this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 1 |
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . | if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . | 0 |
like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | 1 |
like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 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 . | 0 |
with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . | 1 |
with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | but seriously , folks , it does n't work . | 0 |
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | 1 |
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown . | 0 |
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades | and that is where ararat went astray . | 1 |
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades | nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . | 0 |
originality is sorely lacking . | ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . | 1 |
originality is sorely lacking . | -lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 0 |
but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun . | if only it were , well , funnier . | 1 |
but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun . | a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . | 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 . | this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . | 1 |
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 . | but seriously , folks , it does n't work . | 0 |
the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 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 . | woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back . | 0 |
tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . | the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . | first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . | 0 |
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | may puzzle his most ardent fans . | 1 |
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | brave and sweetly rendered love story . | 0 |
elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | 1 |
elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | but seriously , folks , it does n't work . | 0 |
disgusting . | what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 1 |
disgusting . | happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . | 0 |
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . | 1 |
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | where 's the movie here ? | 0 |
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . | 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 |
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . | where 's the movie here ? | 0 |
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