0	its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . 
0	with the dog days of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . 
0	allen's funniest and most likeable movie in years . 
0	there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . 
0	elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . 
0	it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original . 
0	a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . 
0	an action/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat . 
0	scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . 
0	a perceptive , good-natured movie . 
0	'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . 
0	this film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . 
0	[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . 
0	offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in . ah , what the hell . 
0	broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient . 
0	'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . '
0	it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . 
0	here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . 
0	a picture as erratic as its central character . 
0	possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio . 
0	criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . 
0	return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . 
0	the modern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on action . 
0	enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd . 
0	muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . 
0	undercover brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black genre spoof . 
0	kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) 
0	disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . 
0	earnest but heavy-handed . 
0	the central character isn't complex enough to hold our interest . 
0	it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . 
0	skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . 
0	millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . 
0	the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . 
0	what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action . 
0	dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . 
0	what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and farcical . 
0	a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy . 
0	 . . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . 
0	this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . 
0	too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up . 
0	on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . 
0	quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdo do trocadilho ) , no h como negar o brilhantismo da argumentao de seu diretor . 
0	the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste . 
0	expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . 
0	the band performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold . 
0	perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , though . 
0	while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . 
0	this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . 
0	the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . 
0	soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . 
0	faultlessly professional but finally slight . 
0	a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . 
0	it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . 
0	the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist always pulls it back . 
0	this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . 
0	like schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . 
0	despite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . 
0	there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . 
0	a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . 
0	it's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . 
0	the pianist is polanski's best film . 
0	for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . 
0	flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . 
0	the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichd and too often strains credulity . 
0	the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . 
0	if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . 
0	basically , it's pretty but dumb . 
0	it's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . 
0	the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . 
0	an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . 
0	moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . 
0	take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . 
0	demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . 
0	falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . 
0	[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . 
0	neatly constructed thriller . 
0	a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . 
0	there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but " elling " manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . 
0	something must have been lost in the translation . 
0	with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake . 
0	the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . 
0	the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . 
0	 . . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . 
0	with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . 
0	thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . 
0	this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . 
0	confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . 
0	it's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . 
0	a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . 
0	wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . 
0	a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . 
0	purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . 
0	it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . 
0	though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch . 
0	 . . . begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully . 
0	this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . 
0	the script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue . 
0	the movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . 
0	what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb . 
0	a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s . 
0	to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . 
0	this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative . 
0	the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . 
0	it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . 
0	it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward . 
0	an encouraging effort from mccrudden
0	puportedly " based on true events , " a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is " based on a true story " with a straight face . 
0	without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions . 
0	a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . 
0	deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . 
0	on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . 
0	the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . 
0	it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . 
0	the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . 
0	a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . 
0	i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . 
0	an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . 
0	nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . 
0	everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . 
0	 . . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . 
0	has the capability of effecting change and inspiring hope . 
0	parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . 
0	with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . 
0	a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . 
0	the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . 
0	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 . 
0	it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . 
0	writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genres . 
0	a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television . 
0	burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . 
0	a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . 
0	with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger . 
0	an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . 
0	i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal . 
0	it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the original . 
0	blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . 
0	given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . 
0	[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the disney comedies from the 60s . 
0	overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . 
0	just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . 
0	there's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . 
0	predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . 
0	 . . . an inviting piece of film . 
0	a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . 
0	super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothers/abrahams films , and the decidedly foul stylings of their post-modern contemporaries , the farrelly brothers . 
0	whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . 
0	the real triumphs in igby come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . 
0	it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . 
0	you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions  disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . 
0	one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time . 
0	serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour . 
0	all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . 
0	 . . . a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual
0	it's great escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . 
0	as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . 
0	none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the problem with " xxx " is that its own action isn't very effective . 
0	yet another weepy southern bore-athon . 
0	birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . 
0	guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . 
0	now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . 
0	 " the dangerous lives of altar boys " has flaws , but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors
0	represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . 
0	starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a look . 
0	recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . 
0	so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . 
0	 . . . irritating soul-searching garbage . 
0	jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . 
0	while guzmn frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . 
0	eerily accurate depiction of depression . 
0	proves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . 
0	the result is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . 
0	the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . 
0	it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . 
0	not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . 
0	quite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . 
0	despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . 
0	a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . 
0	stay away . far away . 
0	writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . 
0	debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and amateurish . 
0	far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . 
0	anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . 
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	spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . 
0	i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possible . 
0	behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . 
0	when you resurrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? 
0	tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . 
0	a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . 
0	i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . 
0	 " austin powers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . 
0	a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival . 
0	anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . 
0	shallow , noisy and pretentious . 
0	the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on bttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . 
0	boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . 
0	this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . 
0	insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . 
0	 . . . spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative . 
0	bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . 
0	it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . 
0	although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectious . 
0	[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , whether you're a fan of the books or not . 
0	morton deserves an oscar nomination . 
0	julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan . 
0	an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living . 
0	this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . 
0	it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the entire franchise . 
0	worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal'
0	a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . 
0	the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . 
0	smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country . 
0	plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . 
0	as refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream . 
0	it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . 
0	too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . 
0	the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little story in the process . 
0	you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . 
0	splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity . 
0	tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . 
0	a " black austin powers ? " i prefer to think of it as " pootie tang with a budget . " sa da tay ! 
0	uneasy mishmash of styles and genres . 
0	whether you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie . 
0	the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . 
0	the innocence of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be . 
0	what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . 
0	the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . 
0	it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . 
0	the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies . 
0	more whiny downer than corruscating commentary . 
0	darkly funny and frequently insightful . 
0	'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . 
0	to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . 
0	imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . 
0	writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . 
0	little more than a frothy vanity project . 
0	the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . 
0	jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . 
0	bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . 
0	the all-french cast is marveilleux . 
0	it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . 
0	presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . 
0	mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . 
0	two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . 
0	the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichs from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times
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	 . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . 
0	parker cannot sustain the buoyant energy level of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion
0	whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . 
0	a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . 
0	it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . 
0	the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . 
0	a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . 
0	myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . 
0	an unexpectedly sweet story of sisterhood . 
0	this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . 
0	impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim . 
0	it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . 
0	the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a " dungeons and dragons " fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . 
0	there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . 
0	lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . 
0	it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . 
0	the subtle strength of " elling " is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . 
0	this is more a case of 'sacre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . 
0	steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . 
0	exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise . 
0	there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . 
0	jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot . 
0	the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . 
0	at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . 
0	the structure the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned . 
0	the cast is uniformly excellent and relaxed . 
0	the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere . 
0	the film tunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . 
0	affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . 
0	 . . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . 
0	you will likely prefer to keep on watching . 
0	no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . 
0	a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration . 
0	a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . 
0	methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . 
0	while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . 
0	an hour and a half of joyful solo performance . 
0	this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired . 
0	byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . 
0	the movie is a trove of delights . 
0	no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . 
0	even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . 
0	apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter . 
0	 . . . a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . 
0	a weird , arresting little ride . 
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 . 
0	nothing about it fits . 
0	remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago . 
0	eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . 
0	de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . 
0	deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant . 
0	resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . 
0	the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvino . 
0	a sour , nasty offering . 
0	after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . 
0	at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . 
0	the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams . 
0	assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan . 
0	 coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . 
0	i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . 
0	sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . 
0	a very familiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . 
0	though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see . 
0	allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . 
0	flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . 
0	grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . 
0	 " the time machine " is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself , it has no sense of humorit's just plain bored . 
0	even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . 
0	time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . 
0	el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . 
0	while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out . 
0	although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . 
0	the only thing " swept away " is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . 
0	young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . 
0	the film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it's propelled by the acting . 
0	 . it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . 
0	while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . 
0	what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . 
0	recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion . 
0	the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . 
0	the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . 
0	idiotic and ugly . 
0	one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . 
0	any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . 
0	plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . 
0	this time out , [sade] is an unsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . 
0	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	at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . 
0	woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . 
0	khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . 
0	[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . 
0	pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . 
0	feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . 
0	despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . 
0	the whole film has this sneaky feel to it  as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . 
0	though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . 
0	old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship . 
0	the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . 
0	a delightful , if minor , pastry of a movie . 
0	the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) thirdemotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . 
0	from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . 
0	an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore . 
0	the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . 
0	each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . 
0	deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits . 
0	tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . 
0	chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . 
0	soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . 
0	a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . 
0	a surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . 
0	with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest yard . 
0	anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . 
0	at once a testament to the divine calling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge . 
0	there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics
0	without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . 
0	a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . 
0	it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! 
0	this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . 
0	simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . 
0	although the editing might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in modern japan . 
0	both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . 
0	a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . 
0	alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . 
0	a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . 
0	a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . 
0	[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . 
0	falls short in explaining the music and its roots . 
0	it's hard to imagine anybody ever being " in the mood " to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . 
0	miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . 
0	a tasty slice of droll whimsy . 
0	elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . 
0	the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . 
0	unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . 
0	the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . 
0	oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material
0	a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film . 
0	fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . 
0	i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . 
0	a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events . 
0	stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . 
0	it tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . 
0	the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . 
0	if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . 
0	o ltimo suspeito ganha fora ao tambm funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . 
0	an ambitious and moving but bleak film . 
0	the band's courage in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . 
0	twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone . 
0	an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . 
0	it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . 
0	as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . 
0	sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . 
0	trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! " 
0	a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . 
0	twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . 
0	a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time . 
0	the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . 
0	it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . 
0	topkapi this is not . 
0	the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . 
0	 . . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . 
0	it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs . 
0	spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . 
0	the movie tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . 
0	davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . 
0	a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart . 
0	the director , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun . 
0	chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . 
0	vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . 
0	instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? 
0	its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's previous popcorn work . 
0	the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . 
0	it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking . 
0	as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . 
0	while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . 
0	'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '
0	an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot
0	a bodice-ripper for intellectuals . 
0	it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . 
0	largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . 
0	though only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . 
0	a fifty car pileup of cliches . 
0	parris' performance is credible and remarkably mature . 
0	one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . 
0	an absurdist spider web . 
0	a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . 
0	an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . 
0	victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . 
0	it's exactly what you'd expect . 
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	yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end that extravagantly redeems it . 
0	a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . 
0	it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . 
0	it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . 
0	the movie is so thoughtlessly assembled . 
0	if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . 
0	peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments . 
0	a chick flick for guys . 
0	though writer/director bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship , it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup's anchoring performance . 
0	adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . 
0	there's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . 
0	culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . 
0	a sensitive and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot . 
0	birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . 
0	a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . 
0	a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . 
0	celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to beat . 
0	has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together . 
0	a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . 
0	'carente de imaginacin , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un pice de romance , es una verdadera prdida de tiempo y dinero'
0	all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . 
0	pretty good little movie . 
0	a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . 
0	the observations of this social/economic/urban environment are canny and spiced with irony . 
0	adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . 
0	this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . 
0	the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . 
0	dark and disturbing , but also surprisingly funny . 
0	like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . 
0	for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . 
0	ill-considered , unholy hokum . 
0	filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . 
0	a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . 
0	you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . 
0	a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . 
0	full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . 
0	so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . 
0	visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . 
0	shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail
0	it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding
0	 . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . 
0	the movie bounces all over the map . 
0	not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . 
0	haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . 
0	the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shocks . 
0	doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . 
0	the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . 
0	a witty , whimsical feature debut . 
0	buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy role . 
0	less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . 
0	gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traicin que seguramente se convertir en un nuevo clsico del gnero . 
0	trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . 
0	neither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . 
0	the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of " intacto's " dangerous and seductively stylish game . 
0	in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . 
0	[a] thoughtful , visually graceful work . 
0	but buying into sham truths and routine " indie " filmmaking , freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible , just horribly mediocre . 
0	the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . 
0	 . . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . 
0	truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . 
0	sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . 
0	one key problem with these ardently christian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . 
0	even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . 
0	automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . 
0	interminably bleak , to say nothing of boring . 
0	conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . 
0	that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . 
0	quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house . 
0	tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . 
0	the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . 
0	solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . 
0	a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . 
0	this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . 
0	snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . 
0	[a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . 
0	at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . 
0	a resonant tale of racism , revenge and retribution . 
0	mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens . 
0	beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . 
0	one from the heart . 
0	two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . 
0	its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers . 
0	expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . 
0	it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . 
0	boisterous and daft documentary . 
0	narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . 
0	the fly-on-the-wall method used to document rural french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent technique of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . 
0	the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . 
0	this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . 
0	the drama discloses almost nothing . 
0	the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . 
0	instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . 
0	the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . 
0	the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . 
0	the superior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . 
0	there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . 
0	the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . 
0	 . . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . 
0	a loving little film of considerable appeal . 
0	director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times . 
0	strange it is , but delightfully so . 
0	jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . 
0	mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . 
0	dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . 
0	walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . 
0	consistently clever and suspenseful . 
0	inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . 
0	crummy
0	funny but perilously slight . 
0	knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . 
0	for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . 
0	the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . 
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 . 
0	the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . 
0	clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . 
0	a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . 
0	a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . 
0	a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . 
0	it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . 
0	for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . 
0	the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . 
0	the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . 
0	you won't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these veggies . 
0	a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . 
0	hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptic . 
0	the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . 
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 . 
0	steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . 
0	much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . 
0	this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . 
0	a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . 
0	a clever blend of fact and fiction . 
0	lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . 
0	the beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . 
0	'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its face in . '
0	too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style . 
0	asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . 
0	the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . 
0	you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . 
0	spielberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the action , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . 
0	lame , haphazard teen comedy . 
0	too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . 
0	a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy . 
0	it's definitely a step in the right direction . 
0	this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . 
0	director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . 
0	do you say " hi " to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? 
0	watching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . 
0	a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection . 
0	assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation . 
0	[a] strong piece of work . 
0	stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie career . 
0	any one episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes . 
0	to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . 
0	strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . 
0	two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . 
0	i've never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . 
0	what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons . 
0	the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . 
0	we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire . 
0	the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . 
0	meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . 
0	a lame comedy . 
0	not too far below the gloss you can still feel director denis villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his characters . 
0	a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . 
0	the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . 
0	may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . 
0	the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome . 
0	a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . 
0	has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . 
0	a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . 
0	the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . 
0	what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . 
0	it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . 
0	well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . 
0	an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . 
0	they're going through the motions , but the zip is gone . 
0	it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . 
0	while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . 
0	martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . 
0	men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . 
0	it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary . 
0	it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . 
0	awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '
0	 . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . 
0	contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . 
0	apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . 
0	throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . 
0	the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . 
0	a small gem from belgium . 
0	its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . 
0	famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the clich-riddled genre can offer . 
0	delivers more than its fair share of saucy hilarity . 
0	die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . 
0	the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time . 
0	there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . 
0	rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . 
0	a whole lot foul , freaky and funny . 
0	about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . 
0	this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . 
0	it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewer . 
0	a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic weimar republic . 
0	[t]oo many of these gross out scenes . . . 
0	a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a direct-to-video' release . 
0	the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . 
0	this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirming . 
0	though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . 
0	the film tries too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . 
0	an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . 
0	twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . 
0	daring and beautifully made . 
0	by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . 
0	[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . 
0	unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . 
0	may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . 
0	this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . 
0	poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . 
0	on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . 
0	like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . 
0	more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat . 
0	maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements . 
0	a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . 
0	kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . 
0	isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . 
0	a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films . 
0	one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . 
0	an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . 
0	effective but too-tepid biopic
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	herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . 
0	you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . 
0	lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . 
0	aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . 
0	a painfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . 
0	like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and south korea's future adds a much needed moral weight . 
0	this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . 
0	mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . 
0	this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . 
0	light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at least artistically . 
0	a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . 
0	the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . 
0	a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . 
0	director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . 
0	painfully padded . 
0	holden caulfield did it better . 
0	it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . 
0	a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . 
0	the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . 
0	one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . 
0	lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . 
0	spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . 
0	a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . 
0	the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . 
0	a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . 
0	the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . 
0	the year's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . 
0	still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different . 
0	thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . 
0	it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . 
0	a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '
0	the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . 
0	it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . 
0	this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . 
0	moderately involving despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . 
0	the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . 
0	time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . 
0	frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . 
0	labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . something for everyone . 
0	a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . 
0	while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't swim . 
0	once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle
0	wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . 
0	becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . 
0	a meatier deeper beginning and/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the " a " range , as is , it's a very very strong " b+ . " i love the robust middle of this picture . 
0	douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . 
0	if only merchant paid more attention the story . 
0	efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . 
0	shrewd but pointless . 
0	steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . 
0	tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . 
0	she may not be real , but the laughs are . 
0	it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . 
0	 . . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . 
0	ararat feels like a book report
0	if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from friday . 
0	a gem of a movie . 
0	its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . 
0	this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil
0	does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . 
0	it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing . 
0	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	two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . 
0	it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . 
0	likely to expertly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . 
0	giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . 
0	the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . 
0	when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . 
0	runs on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance . 
0	you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . 
0	maud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . 
0	a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . 
0	uplifting , funny and wise . 
0	an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . 
0	it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . 
0	one of those so-so films that could have been much better . 
0	it may not be " last tango in paris " but . . . 
0	depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . 
0	until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . 
0	it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . 
0	my big fat greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . 
0	a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . 
0	the first bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . 
0	talkiness isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . 
0	 . . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . 
0	 " the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store " 
0	a melancholy , emotional film . 
0	all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in something that is improbable . 
0	though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . 
0	though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . 
0	painful to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . 
0	complex , affecting and uniquely almodvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . 
0	we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . 
0	sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family . 
0	a deliciously mordant , bitter black comedy . 
0	stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . 
0	beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . 
0	the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . 
0	pompous and garbled . 
0	what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? 
0	in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . 
0	the premise is in extremely bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them . 
0	'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit
0	it will break your heart many times over . 
0	in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . 
0	whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one . 
0	a respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . 
0	feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women . 
0	i don't think this movie loves women at all . 
0	sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned . 
0	though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . 
0	jagger the actor is someone you want to see again . 
0	the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . 
0	with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . 
0	an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . 
0	so young , so smart , such talent , such a wise * * * . 
0	beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . 
0	the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . 
0	almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . 
0	gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . 
0	the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . 
0	greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation . 
0	a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . 
0	this one is strictly a lightweight escapist film . 
0	the film grows on you . and how . 
0	though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writer/director achero manas's film is schematic and obvious . 
0	k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . 
0	there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way . 
0	its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . 
0	reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining . 
0	a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . 
0	consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . 
0	a modestly made but profoundly moving documentary . 
0	 " birthday girl " is an actor's movie first and foremost . 
0	katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself
0	howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buuel retrospective . 
0	 . . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . 
0	though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before . 
0	with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . 
0	this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . 
0	one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . 
0	imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . 
0	this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . 
0	if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . 
0	demme's loose approach kills the suspense . 
0	the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre . 
0	humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . 
0	an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , however , is original . 
0	oversexed , at times overwrought comedy/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty , female and single . 
0	eight legged freaks ? no big hairy deal . 
0	generic thriller junk . teens only . 
0	a splendid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience . 
0	this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parental eyes , gives peace yet another chance . 
0	take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . 
0	scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . 
0	a modestly surprising movie . 
0	illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller . 
0	dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit
0	the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . 
0	wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . 
0	fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! 
0	you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings . 
0	genuinely unnerving . 
0	the spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . 
0	one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved . 
0	a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . 
0	a warm , funny , engaging film . 
0	 " one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? " um . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? 
0	an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . 
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 needn't waste their time on it . 
0	murder by numbers just doesn't add up . 
0	in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . 
0	shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic . 
0	though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . 
0	suffers from a flat script and a low budget . 
0	scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . 
0	there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . 
0	there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . 
0	as saccharine as it is disposable . 
0	plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . 
0	a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . 
0	press the delete key . 
0	obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . 
0	a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . 
0	its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . 
0	the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . 
0	a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys . 
0	a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . 
0	just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . 
0	limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . 
0	zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . 
0	it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form . 
0	i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . 
0	it's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . 
0	suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . 
0	the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . 
0	satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . 
0	a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary . 
0	hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . 
0	the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . 
0	 " simone " is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . 
0	exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . 
0	though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . 
0	bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . 
0	every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . 
0	a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . 
0	chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . 
0	a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . 
0	you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to . 
0	a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . 
0	egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . 
0	rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . 
0	we do get the distinct impression that this franchise is drawing to a close . 
0	it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality
0	an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . 
0	a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . 
0	believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . 
0	like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . 
0	director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . 
0	coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . 
0	 . . . a bland , pretentious mess . 
0	i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . 
0	a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . 
0	a poignant comedy that offers food for thought . 
0	in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . 
0	hollywood's answer to an air ball . 
0	astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . 
0	a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . 
0	one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce . 
0	trapped won't score points for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness . 
0	the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . 
0	it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . 
0	boy oh boy , it's a howler . 
0	unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater near you . 
0	because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . 
0	more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . 
0	the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . 
0	unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . 
0	talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . 
0	offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . 
0	mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make " " the good girl " a film worth watching . 
0	a sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity . 
0	a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact . 
0	schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . 
0	i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . 
0	horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . 
0	priggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . 
0	despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . 
0	an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . 
0	the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . 
0	although there are several truly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . 
0	with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller
0	fairly run-of-the-mill . 
0	frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . 
0	the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . deeds was to that of frank capra . 
0	it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? 
0	a quiet , disquieting triumph . 
0	if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn . 
0	 . . . a ho-hum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorable . 
0	the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . 
0	this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels like unrealized potential
0	raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . 
0	from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . 
0	the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . 
0	 . . . a solid , well-formed satire . 
0	either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . 
0	it's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force . 
0	a wildly entertaining scan of evans' career . 
0	a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! 
0	director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place . 
0	no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . 
0	angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . 
0	 . . . with " the bourne identity " we return to the more traditional action genre . 
0	even the digressions are funny . 
0	hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . 
0	all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . 
0	as green-guts monster movies go , it's a beaut . 
0	it's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . 
0	the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . 
0	it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . 
0	befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
0	contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . 
0	in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . 
0	the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . 
0	a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . 
0	this is amusing for about three minutes . 
0	the camera whirls ! the camera twirls ! oh , look at that clever angle ! wow , a jump cut ! 
0	so-so entertainment . 
0	like old myths and wonder tales spun afresh . 
0	it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lit . so i just did . 
0	the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses . 
0	 . . . an otherwise intense , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented young gaghan's resume . 
0	much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . 
0	there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . paul cox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . 
0	what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . 
0	hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . 
0	ahhhh . . . revenge is sweet ! 
0	there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . 
0	even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment
0	 . . . the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . 
0	one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . 
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 . 
0	worthy of the gong . 
0	the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . 
0	if this dud had been made in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . 
0	everything that was right about blade is wrong in its sequel . 
0	a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . 
0	not exactly the bees knees
0	reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . 
0	[a] stuporously solemn film . 
0	there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . 
0	 . . . if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . 
0	the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . 
0	[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . 
0	seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . 
0	a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . 
0	the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . 
0	jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . 
0	resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche . 
0	it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . 
0	not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . 
0	a half-assed film . 
0	all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . 
0	wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . 
0	the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . 
0	reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . 
0	i'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . 
0	while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanics of comedy . 
0	though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . 
0	there's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . 
0	an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . 
0	if you like quirky , odd movies and/or the ironic , here's a fun one . 
0	no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . 
0	what enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . 
0	sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? 
0	a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness . 
0	there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally . 
0	nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . 
0	it just goes to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . 
0	plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . 
0	make like the title and dodge this one . 
0	the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . 
0	ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . 
0	it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . 
0	turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . 
0	a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy . 
0	pascale bailly's rom-com provides amlie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . 
0	does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . 
0	a picture that extols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion . 
0	art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . 
0	the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . 
0	from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , " besotted " is misbegotten
0	unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . 
0	we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . 
0	funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . 
0	there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . 
0	for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . 
0	return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . 
0	like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . 
0	one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . 
0	 ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . 
0	it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . 
0	both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . 
0	talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quite worth seeing . 
0	thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents
0	more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . 
0	 . . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . 
0	the material and the production itself are little more than routine . 
0	writer/director walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable . 
0	the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . 
0	a big-budget/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . 
0	supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . 
0	in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . 
0	merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . 
0	the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . 
0	a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . 
0	i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre
0	deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . 
0	one of the worst films of 2002 . 
0	one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in . 
0	although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . 
0	it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . 
0	schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . 
0	an extraordinarily silly thriller . 
0	a meatballs for the bare-midriff generation . 
0	for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented piece . 
0	though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . 
0	it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . 
0	the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . 
0	with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wins . 
0	so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy . 
0	loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . 
0	would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy . 
0	deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . 
0	it's an earnest debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predictable . 
0	world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . 
0	not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . 
0	one of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . 
0	boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . 
0	undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . 
0	this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! 
