0	what's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . 
0	the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . 
1	a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . 
1	a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . 
1	drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . 
1	what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . 
0	works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . 
1	the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " gory mayhem " is your idea of a good time . 
0	there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate . 
1	although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . 
1	enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast . 
1	that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . 
1	melodrama with a message . 
0	a wordy wisp of a comedy . 
0	ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance
0	this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . 
0	the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . 
1	uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . 
0	at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it
1	while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . 
0	only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . 
0	it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction . 
1	vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . 
0	sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . 
0	what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . 
1	implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . 
1	what " empire " lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . 
0	like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? 
0	supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . 
0	i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . 
0	the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . 
0	the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . 
0	it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . 
1	a compelling motion picture that illustrates an american tragedy . 
0	overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . 
0	it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . 
1	you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report . 
0	sluggish , tonally uneven . 
0	does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . 
1	has its share of arresting images . 
1	while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . 
0	flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . 
0	never comes together as a coherent whole . 
1	a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . 
0	minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a report . 
1	an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . 
1	 . . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . 
0	written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . 
0	a well-acted , but one-note film . 
1	 . . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . 
0	dreary tale of middle-class angst
1	not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . 
0	some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . 
1	immersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . 
0	every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . 
1	a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . 
0	the film's center will not hold . 
0	despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . 
0	somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . 
0	it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . 
0	like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . 
1	this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . 
0	eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . 
0	the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or distributors again before the closing credits roll . 
1	rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . 
1	throughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . 
1	the unexplored story opportunities of " punch-drunk love " may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson . 
0	barely gets off the ground . 
1	serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . 
1	this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back . 
0	coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . 
1	to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . 
1	the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . 
0	producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway
0	contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . 
0	a glossy knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick . 
1	displaying about equal amounts of naivet , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . 
0	a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . 
1	son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . 
0	by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . 
1	a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . 
0	 . curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . 
0	predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . 
0	a predictable and stereotypical little b-movie . 
1	nair's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . 
1	an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of view . 
0	the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . 
1	the best thing i can say about this film is that i can't wait to see what the director does next . 
1	the film offers an intriguing what-if premise . 
1	this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . 
0	the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . 
0	well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . 
0	tennessee williams by way of oprah's book club . 
0	not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . 
0	it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . 
1	the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology . 
0	a great ending doesn't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . 
0	this is junk food cinema at its greasiest . 
0	all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . 
0	 . . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . 
0	the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . 
1	lasker's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter . 
1	effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . 
1	now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . 
1	mama africa pretty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main problem being that it's only a peek . 
0	4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . 
1	as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games . 
1	if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers . 
1	a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . 
1	the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . 
0	too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good , it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing . 
1	this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . 
1	the tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . 
1	it's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . 
0	it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . 
0	you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there . 
0	the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . 
0	[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . 
0	the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . 
0	it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it . 
1	a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film . 
1	the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . 
1	seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . 
1	coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . 
1	one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine state . 
0	after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . 
0	when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . 
0	neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . 
0	it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . 
1	watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . 
1	divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . 
0	avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . 
0	the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . 
1	sharp , lively , funny and ultimately sobering film . 
1	jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . 
1	lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . 
0	with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichs . 
1	stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . 
1	read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . 
1	it's not life-affirming  its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . 
0	an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . 
1	even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . 
0	black-and-white and unrealistic . 
1	 . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . 
1	it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . 
0	it won't be long before you'll spy i spy at a video store near you . 
1	going to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . 
1	ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . 
1	the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . 
0	final verdict : you've seen it all before . 
0	once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . 
1	the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . 
1	my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . 
0	it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film . 
0	considering the harsh locations and demanding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . 
0	if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you're far better served by the source material . 
1	on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . 
0	what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . 
0	this u-boat doesn't have a captain . 
0	i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere . 
1	the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . 
0	an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . 
1	a solidly seaworthy chiller . 
1	this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . well , skip to another review . 
1	harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . 
0	are monsters born , or made ? 
1	many insightful moments . 
1	it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications . 
1	the gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . 
1	an inventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . 
1	theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . 
1	if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . 
0	 . . . a pretentious mess . . . 
0	the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . 
1	richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . 
1	blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . 
0	much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . 
0	claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . 
1	the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways . 
1	the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . 
0	ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . 
1	salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . 
1	 . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . 
0	sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . 
0	'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . '
0	as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . 
0	no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . 
0	a generic international version of a typical american horror film . 
1	in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . 
0	i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes . 
1	kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . 
0	if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . 
1	the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . 
1	 . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . 
0	everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . 
1	the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . 
0	take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . 
0	nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . 
1	superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear line . 
1	it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . 
1	it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . 
1	old-form moviemaking at its best . 
1	it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . 
1	a well-put-together piece of urban satire . 
1	see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . 
1	a winning and wildly fascinating work . 
1	significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition . 
0	laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . 
0	with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . 
0	the plot combines the blues brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . 
1	some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since " saving private ryan " have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war . 
0	one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . 
1	japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date . 
0	the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get . 
1	the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . 
1	it's fascinating to see how bettany and mcdowell play off each other . 
0	 ( it ) highlights not so much the crime lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . 
1	one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . 
1	this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . 
1	good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . 
0	if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . 
0	feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . 
0	simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . 
0	enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . 
0	kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera . 
0	well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) . 
1	you could say that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . 
0	acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes " never again " worthwhile , but [writer/director] schaeffer should follow his titular advice
0	a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . 
0	given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . 
1	it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . 
1	that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . 
0	doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . 
1	compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph . 
1	this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done . it's a scorcher . 
0	how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . 
0	the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the point where it almost stops the blood flow to your brain ; it has a dull , costumey feel . 
1	it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . 
0	couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? 
0	a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . 
0	generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . 
0	hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . 
1	what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . 
0	the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . 
0	it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . 
1	beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . 
1	zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . 
0	secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . 
0	a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right . 
1	probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . 
0	koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . 
0	its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess . 
1	an enthralling , entertaining feature . 
1	the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . 
1	a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . 
0	a thriller without a lot of thrills . 
0	birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . 
1	this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of sensual empowerment . 
0	velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . 
1	 . . . a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations . 
1	it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . 
1	at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood . 
0	frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . 
1	waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . 
0	adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . 
0	 . . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs . 
1	sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but still a very good time at the cinema . 
1	it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . 
1	all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forced to follow . 
0	deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . 
1	the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . 
0	places a slightly believable love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . 
1	with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hlne angel is definitely a director to watch . 
1	director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could . 
1	with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . 
0	but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . 
1	chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flaws . 
1	the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . 
1	it's a count for our times . 
1	twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . 
0	may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen . 
0	 at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . 
0	tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often . 
1	the movie does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . 
0	shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting . 
0	a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . 
1	who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? 
1	the rare imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . 
0	the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . 
0	instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . 
1	this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . 
0	as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them . 
0	'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . 
0	falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funny . 
0	simply a re-hash of the other seven films . 
0	tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . 
0	the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . 
1	a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . 
0	this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . 
0	 . . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . 
1	imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . 
1	although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . 
1	miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . 
1	it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen . 
1	a literate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . 
1	they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . 
0	at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . 
1	you live the mood rather than savour the story . 
0	even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . 
0	when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . 
0	an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . 
0	the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . 
1	a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . 
1	not the best herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . 
1	while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . 
1	cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving graces . 
0	like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . 
0	a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . 
1	renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . 
1	 . . . an interesting slice of history . 
0	[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . 
0	because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . 
0	slap me , i saw this movie . 
1	lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree . 
0	impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . 
0	the last 20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart jokes
1	an admirable , sometimes exceptional film
0	although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . 
1	in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . 
0	rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naf's encounter with the world . 
0	 . . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . 
0	the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . 
0	i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on video by then . 
1	a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . 
0	the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale
0	there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . 
0	yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . 
1	the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . 
1	jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . 
1	witless but watchable . 
1	the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . 
0	this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . 
1	a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution . 
0	beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . 
1	mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival . 
0	one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . 
0	 . . . really horrible drek . 
1	 . . . a solid , unassuming drama . 
1	'they' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decided to leave a light on every night from now on . 
1	the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . 
0	feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network . 
0	la cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , rpidamente se transforma en una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible
0	execrable . 
0	has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . 
1	it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . 
1	the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . 
1	cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days
1	for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . 
1	meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . 
1	the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . 
1	star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . 
0	i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers . 
1	in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . 
0	its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . 
0	an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . 
0	it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . 
0	it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good . 
1	is it a total success ? no . is it something any true film addict will want to check out ? you bet . 
1	a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . 
0	a coarse and stupid gross-out . 
0	sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . 
0	the gantzes' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook . 
1	the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end . 
0	long time dead ? not nearly long enough . 
1	a moving , if uneven , success . 
1	as teen movies go , " orange county " is a refreshing change
1	secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . 
1	the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . 
0	you can practically smell the patchouli oil . 
1	 . . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . 
0	interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots . 
0	with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . 
0	not only unfunny , but downright repellent . 
0	perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to write home about . 
1	but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being earnest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . 
0	crikey indeed . 
0	credibility levels are low and character development a non-starter . 
0	watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . 
0	a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too late . 
0	after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichs , depression and bad alternative music . 
1	if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting . 
1	the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . 
1	an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . 
0	tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple  he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . 
1	it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . 
1	baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . 
0	one big blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . 
0	phoned-in business as usual . 
0	the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . 
0	given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . 
0	such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . 
1	lightweight but appealing . 
1	though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog's works , invincible shows he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . 
1	may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today . 
1	 . . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . 
0	this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . 
0	human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . 
1	has enough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . 
0	instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources  good sources , bad mixture
1	sweet and memorable film . 
1	campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . 
0	obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . 
0	schindler's list it ain't . 
1	twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career . 
0	parents beware ; this is downright movie penance . 
1	vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . 
0	the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . 
1	light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . 
1	crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . 
1	 . . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seeing at least once . 
1	brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . 
1	the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . 
0	verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . 
0	the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . 
0	the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . 
0	there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . 
0	shouldn't have been allowed to use the word " new " in its title , because there's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . 
1	it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . 
1	this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . 
1	maryam is a small film , but it offers large rewards . 
0	[gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . 
0	parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . 
0	all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . 
1	if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . 
0	when the first few villians are introduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a real winner , creativity at its peak . 
0	an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . 
1	if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . 
0	turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters
0	can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . 
0	plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on " the simpsons " has . 
1	so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . 
1	a lovely film for the holiday season . 
0	if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . 
1	very solid , very watchable first feature for director peter sheridan
1	nicole kidman makes it a party worth attending . 
0	deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . 
0	highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . 
1	the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . 
1	tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . 
0	[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands . 
1	call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . 
0	a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . 
0	devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . 
0	being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . 
0	the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . 
0	oozes condescension from every pore . 
0	the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . 
0	call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . 
0	 . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . 
0	is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? 
0	could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . 
0	it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . 
0	starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . 
1	the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . 
1	as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . 
0	the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . 
0	unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . 
0	shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption . 
0	 . . . the movie is just a plain old monster . 
0	tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . 
0	every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! 
0	a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point . 
0	there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . 
1	hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project . 
1	both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . 
0	an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening . 
0	does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . 
1	genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of love . 
0	harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . 
1	we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . 
1	warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this film . 
1	the messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time . 
1	one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . 
1	as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . 
0	helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge . 
0	maybe leblanc thought , " hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . " 
0	 . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . 
1	there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable . 
0	sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . 
1	the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a great movie . 
1	more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . 
1	an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . 
1	 . . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . 
1	this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . 
0	any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . 
0	sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light . 
1	a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . 
0	to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . 
1	 . . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's fun for kids of any age . 
1	i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . 
1	 . . . quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . 
1	contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly well . 
0	dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . 
1	[westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the camera . 
0	aggravating and tedious . 
0	offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already seen . 
1	it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . 
1	exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . 
1	a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . 
0	you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jell . 
1	in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . 
1	[a] satisfying niblet . 
0	the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here . 
1	a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . 
0	 . . . think of it as american pie on valium . 
0	no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . 
0	it drowns in sap . 
0	expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . 
0	it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile . 
0	in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . 
0	the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . 
0	the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . 
0	the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . 
0	there's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . 
0	comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . 
1	easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . 
1	 . . . wise and elegiac . . . 
1	the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . 
0	it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . 
1	chicago pode at ser um filme divertido e cativante ( como  ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direo contrria  evoluo dos musicais . 
1	baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . 
1	although i didn't hate this one , it's not very good either . it can be safely recommended as a video/dvd babysitter . 
0	in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . 
1	qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . 
1	this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . 
1	like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . 
1	as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . 
0	the movie feels like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . 
1	a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . 
1	the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . 
1	in some ways , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better . 
0	there's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . 
1	an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . 
0	extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . 
0	a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . 
1	features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . 
0	for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . 
1	psychologically savvy . 
1	an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick . 
1	further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . 
0	i'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . 
1	with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell . 
0	just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . 
1	it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro . 
0	[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , i'd want something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . 
1	[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass . 
0	a modest and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . 
1	mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . 
1	hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . 
0	fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . 
0	this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashing what was basically a one-joke picture . 
1	a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . 
1	an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . 
0	the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . 
0	tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . 
1	grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . 
0	the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . 
1	abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . 
0	an awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism . 
1	it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . 
1	well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . 
0	there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . 
1	a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother . 
1	the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . 
0	i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . 
1	irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . 
0	yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies . 
1	the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . 
0	the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? 
0	what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . 
0	pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . 
1	spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . 
0	marinated in clichs and mawkish dialogue . 
0	ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . 
1	based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters
1	a gentle and engrossing character study . 
1	hugely entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . 
0	[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . 
1	the hours makes you examine your own life in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . 
1	meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . 
0	there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . 
1	in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . 
0	gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . 
0	a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . 
1	an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind
1	a solid , psychological action film from hong kong . 
0	as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . 
0	succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . 
1	the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying clean . 
1	this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! 
1	[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . 
0	malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . 
0	not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . 
0	as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . 
0	it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or even shallow . 
0	the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . 
0	it's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby . 
1	a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . 
1	garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work . 
0	an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . 
1	it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . 
0	it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . 
1	[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise . 
1	 " red dragon " is entertaining . an obvious copy of one of the best films ever made , how could it not be ? but it is entertaining on an inferior level . it is a popcorn film , not a must-own , or even a must-see . 
0	brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . 
1	a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than " memento " 
0	the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . 
0	skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . 
0	all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . 
0	'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? '
0	the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . 
0	clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . 
1	there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . 
0	the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . 
0	a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . 
1	the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much . 
1	it's fairly self-aware in its dumbness . 
0	never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . 
1	essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . 
0	a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . 
0	watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . 
0	spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . 
1	that it'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture
1	texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . 
1	this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . 
1	the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . 
1	exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep us on our toes . 
0	the movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . 
0	the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . 
0	well-meant but unoriginal . 
0	sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . 
0	fails to bring as much to the table . 
1	mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . 
1	shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . 
0	don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . 
0	never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . 
0	aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . 
0	the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . 
1	the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . 
0	almost as offensive as " freddy got fingered . " 
0	it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . 
1	the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . 
1	it proves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study . 
0	how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . 
1	the film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . 
0	[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . 
1	maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . 
0	the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? 
0	it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . 
1	seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but . 
1	doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . 
0	this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . 
0	hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . 
1	combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? 
1	the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before . 
1	a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . 
1	has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre . 
0	releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . 
1	an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . 
0	what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form . 
1	nice piece of work . 
0	aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . 
0	a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . 
1	a pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . 
1	digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . 
0	trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . 
1	an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama . 
1	[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . 
0	a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . 
1	a moving story of determination and the human spirit . 
1	on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veronique . 
0	there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . 
0	if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now . 
1	it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . 
0	too bad maggio couldn't come up with a better script . 
0	at the very least , if you don't know anything about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . 
0	focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her " madness " so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . 
0	this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . 
1	it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . 
0	time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool " clockstoppers , " but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . 
0	uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . 
0	well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . 
0	 " looking for leonard " just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . 
1	a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . 
1	meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . 
1	promises is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . 
1	monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . 
0	a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '
1	the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details . 
0	trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead . 
1	the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . 
1	it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks . 
1	there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . 
0	this is a truly , truly bad movie . 
0	the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . 
1	maid in manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspection . 
1	the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la
0	despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . 
0	incoherence reigns . 
1	it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . 
0	davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . 
1	performances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . 
0	this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . 
0	rashomon-for-dipsticks tale . 
1	the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . 
0	those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . 
1	if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . 
1	brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . 
0	professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . 
1	an ambitious 'what if ? ' that works . 
1	the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . 
0	the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . 
1	it's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to . 
1	i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . 
1	baran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . 
1	as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . 
0	human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . 
0	a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characters barely move . 
1	a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions . 
0	 . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . 
0	the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . 
0	more of a career curio than a major work . 
0	the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . 
1	a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . 
1	if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . 
1	grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length
0	never inspires more than an interested detachment . 
1	the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . 
0	any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . 
0	what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it's icky . 
1	using an endearing cast , writer/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred . 
0	 . . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . 
1	toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . 
0	 . . . a bland murder-on-campus yawner . 
0	this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . 
1	as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul . 
0	bottom-rung new jack city wannabe . 
1	anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . 
0	tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . 
1	even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . 
0	that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . 
1	it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . 
0	watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . 
1	the comedy makes social commentary more palatable . 
0	the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . 
1	its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . 
1	would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . 
1	ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . 
1	cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . 
1	the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . 
0	nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . 
0	derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . 
0	it's a big idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . 
1	a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaze . 
1	you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that works . 
0	if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . 
1	films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . 
1	it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . 
1	if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . 
1	the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably like it . 
0	queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . 
1	a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic . 
0	odd and weird . 
1	jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . 
0	worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . 
0	about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the movie . 
1	cusack's just brilliant in this . 
1	although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . 
0	a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . 
0	too simple for its own good . 
1	poignant and delicately complex . 
1	maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . 
1	a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . 
1	a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . 
0	it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . 
1	skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . 
1	the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . 
0	responsvel direto pelo fracasso 'artstico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox no consegue sequer aproveitar os pouqussimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . 
1	biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . 
0	what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . 
1	an almost unbearably morbid love story . 
0	the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . 
1	as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . 
1	by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . 
0	none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens . 
1	the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups . 
0	 . . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . 
0	if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? 
1	the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . 
1	if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . 
1	it strikes hardest when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . 
1	it's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . 
1	extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . 
0	este  apenas mais um ( longo ) episdio do programa da mtv . a nica diferena  que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . 
1	fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's work . 
0	[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . 
1	by applying definition to both sides of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . 
1	filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . 
0	audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . 
1	 . . . a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year . 
0	this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself . 
0	death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . 
0	do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor . 
1	a compelling portrait of moral emptiness
0	the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . 
0	at once half-baked and overheated . 
1	i have two words to say about reign of fire . great dragons ! 
1	dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them apart . 
0	an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . 
1	see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . 
0	all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . 
1	an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences the chteau is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . 
1	director todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . 
0	it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . 
1	jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . 
0	the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . 
0	a era do gelo diverte , mas no convence .  um passatempo descompromissado  e s . 
0	instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . 
1	[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . 
1	peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . 
0	the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . 
0	rarely has a film's title served such dire warning . 
0	 . . . a rather bland affair . 
0	the premise of " abandon " holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess . 
0	harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . 
0	too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . 
1	the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . 
1	the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . 
0	the cartoon that isn't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters . 
1	this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . 
0	this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . 
1	a thoughtful look at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 . 
1	the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . 
1	bring on the sequel . 
0	for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movie . 
0	 . . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle . 
1	even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . 
0	equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . 
1	a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . 
0	while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw . 
1	part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . 
1	washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . 
1	 . . . the plot weaves us into a complex web . 
1	a gangster movie with the capacity to surprise . 
1	just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer . 
1	the performances are an absolute joy . 
0	a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . 
0	all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . 
1	creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . 
1	it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . 
1	the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . 
1	 . . . a magnificent drama well worth tracking down . 
1	broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . 
1	 . . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject  taking us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . 
1	this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . 
0	dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . 
0	here's a self-congratulatory 3d imax rah-rah . 
1	the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . 
0	to call the other side of heaven " appalling " would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be . 
1	it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . 
0	a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . 
1	i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise . 
1	it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . 
0	i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . 
1	oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . 
0	this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . 
1	every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . 
1	a riveting story well told . 
1	whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . 
0	sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . 
0	one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . 
1	for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . 
1	poetic , heartbreaking . 
1	a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it . 
0	the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . 
0	not once in the rush to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '
1	ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . 
0	piccoli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . 
1	a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . 
0	the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . 
1	you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . 
0	like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't want to . 
0	don't let your festive spirit go this far . 
0	if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven seagal come across these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? 
1	jir hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . 
0	ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . 
0	the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . 
1	while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . 
1	we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to finish . 
0	hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . 
1	arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year
1	the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael . 
1	like a south-of-the-border melrose place . 
1	katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . 
0	even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . 
1	a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . 
1	nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . 
1	tailored to entertain ! 
1	miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . 
1	so refreshingly incisive is grant that for the first time he'll probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . 
0	though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . 
0	for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . 
1	parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buuel's casings
0	bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . 
0	starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . 
0	godawful boring slug of a movie . 
1	the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and simply the best family film of the year . 
1	beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . 
1	from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . 
1	each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . 
1	the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . 
1	if " lilo & stitch " isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since " dumbo " certainly ranks as the most original in years . 
0	a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . 
0	why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . 
0	equal parts bodice-ripper and plodding costume drama . 
1	my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they would have been doing something wrong . 
0	due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . 
0	predictably melodramatic . 
1	nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . 
1	the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . 
1	the pleasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . 
1	a terrific date movie , whatever your orientation . 
1	light , cute and forgettable . 
0	i think it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . '
0	'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . 
0	despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off
1	tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . 
0	just isn't as weird as it ought to be . 
1	a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . 
1	the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . 
1	there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . 
0	 . . . stale and uninspired . 
1	no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . 
0	cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . 
0	sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . 
0	not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . 
0	such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go . 
0	you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . 
1	though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . 
1	lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new . 
1	for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . 
0	i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . 
1	the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality
1	there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . 
1	a very well-made , funny and entertaining picture . 
1	i like this movie a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . 
0	it's not too fast and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anything . 
0	the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . 
1	a tasty masala . 
0	it's an awfully derivative story . 
1	a smart , compelling drama . 
0	if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . 
1	an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction . 
1	benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . 
1	the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t . 
0	the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end . 
0	has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . 
0	yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong . 
1	wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . 
1	sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . 
1	a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . 
0	apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . 
0	doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . 
0	ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . 
1	all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . 
1	stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . 
1	droll caper-comedy remake of " big deal on madonna street " that's a sly , amusing , laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate " bellini " begins to look like a " real kaputschnik . " 
1	labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . 
1	a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . 
0	the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . 
1	those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . 
1	fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . 
0	a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . 
0	the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . 
0	a better title , for all concerned , might be swept under the rug . 
0	while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . 
1	a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . 
0	with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . 
1	[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . 
1	a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . 
1	novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach . 
1	sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . 
0	here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . 
0	too much power , not enough puff . 
1	the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . 
1	i don't know precisely what to make of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . 
1	writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times , clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza . 
0	constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . 
0	a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . 
0	the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . 
1	a movie with a real anarchic flair . 
1	humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . 
1	i like it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . 
1	this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . 
1	the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . 
0	one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . 
1	the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . 
0	ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . 
1	this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . 
0	gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . 
0	[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compelling than the execution
1	it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . 
1	a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . 
1	a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . 
1	the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world . 
0	the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off . 
0	directed in a paint-by-numbers manner . 
0	though it was made with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . 
0	the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . 
0	[a] poorly executed comedy . 
0	has the feel of an unedited personal journal . 
1	a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love . 
1	a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children . 
1	a real story about real people living their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentally handicapped family member . 
0	helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . 
0	this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , despite a few whopping shootouts . 
0	the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . 
1	one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . 
0	an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . 
0	pumpkin wants to have it both ways . 
1	the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . 
0	narc is all menace and atmosphere . 
1	first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . 
1	one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . 
0	 . . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . 
1	though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . 
0	while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other . 
1	rabbit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . 
1	it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . 
1	mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . 
0	[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . 
1	[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . 
1	it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . 
0	a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . 
0	unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . 
0	not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . 
0	proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . 
0	i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . 
1	while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . 
0	historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . 
1	 . . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . 
0	why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? 
0	will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . 
0	if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . 
1	[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true . 
0	a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . 
0	eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . 
1	spiderman rocks
1	in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichs disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . 
1	gloriously straight from the vagina . 
1	streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , " big trouble " is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . 
0	when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . 
1	disturbing and brilliant documentary . 
0	it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichs the filmmakers could dredge up . 
1	rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . 
0	theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? 
1	forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of friday-night excitement and milla power . 
1	while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . 
1	 . . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . 
0	i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing . 
1	spare yet audacious . . . 
0	if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . 
0	a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama . 
1	awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . 
0	the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . 
0	while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . 
0	sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . 
0	lurid and less than lucid work . 
1	diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful . 
0	rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . 
0	complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . 
0	too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . 
0	ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies . 
1	devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . 
0	this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . 
1	plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . 
1	majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places . 
1	smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . 
0	cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . 
1	winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . 
0	its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary . 
1	not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time . 
0	rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . 
1	absorbing character study by andr turpin . 
0	ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . 
1	while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . 
1	seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . 
0	kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . 
1	skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . 
1	a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . 
1	it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . 
1	director of photography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand . 
1	because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . 
1	the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after . 
0	there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . 
0	where last time jokes flowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . 
0	let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedly " inspired " was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen . 
1	 . . . a true delight . 
1	time out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and alienation . 
0	a loquacious and dreary piece of business . 
1	fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation . 
1	imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . 
0	an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . 
1	a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . 
0	an empty , purposeless exercise . 
0	by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i found myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie . 
1	what a great way to spend 4 units of your day . 
1	many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie one bit . 
0	it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . 
0	initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . 
1	the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . 
1	american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . 
1	you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . 
1	an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . 
0	we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground . 
0	fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . 
0	director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . 
0	a humorless journey into a philosophical void . 
1	sweet home alabama " is what it is  a nice , harmless date film . . . 
0	the story . . . is moldy and obvious . 
0	if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . 
0	the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . 
1	together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . 
0	more trifle than triumph . 
1	a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . 
1	the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go away . 
1	the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . 
1	as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . 
1	ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . 
0	all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . 
1	the movie is one of the best examples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . 
0	it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . 
1	an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story . 
0	despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . 
1	a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll . 
0	jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . 
0	all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion . 
1	there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . 
0	the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . 
1	una pelcula oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . 
1	sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers . 
1	a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . 
0	wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . 
1	it's a talking head documentary , but a great one . 
1	like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . 
0	anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . 
1	rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether , in this case , that's true . 
0	check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like chris rock . 
1	funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . 
1	daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain . 
0	its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . 
0	taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . 
1	presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . 
0	it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . 
1	there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . 
0	due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . 
0	nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . 
0	weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . 
0	was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ? 
1	has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . 
0	lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . 
0	puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . 
0	mildly entertaining . 
0	far more enjoyable than its predecessor . 
0	the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . 
0	so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat . 
0	the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . 
0	as plain and pedestrian as catsup--
0	more maudlin than sharp . 
1	emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . 
1	moore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . 
0	sucking all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . 
1	return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . 
1	intimate and panoramic . 
1	mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . 
1	flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . 
0	just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . 
0	the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . 
1	doug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a nice wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . 
1	an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . 
0	an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much energy or tension . 
1	for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor . 
0	even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . 
1	in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . 
0	love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . 
0	neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . 
0	for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . 
0	a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . 
1	highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . 
1	helps to remind the first world that hiv/aids is far from being yesterday's news . 
0	the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . 
1	a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . 
0	other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . 
1	mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . 
0	stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in reno . " go back to sleep . 
0	 . . . the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy . 
0	the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . 
0	a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . 
0	the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . 
0	sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . 
0	 " bad " is the operative word for " bad company , " and i don't mean that in a good way . 
0	makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . 
0	a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged . 
0	ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . 
0	has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies . . . 
1	a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined . 
0	adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . 
1	legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . 
0	doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez . 
1	although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . 
0	it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . 
1	miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . 
0	for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . 
1	stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . 
0	it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that's often written off as indie film naturalism . 
0	no surprises . 
1	chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . 
0	buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichs and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . chips off the old block . 
0	 . . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity . 
0	the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . 
1	only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . 
0	it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . 
1	 . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . 
1	maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . 
1	visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . 
1	tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . 
0	the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . 
0	stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . 
1	the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . 
1	in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big screen . 
0	jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . 
0	some of it is clever , but it is never melodic/
1	kids will love its fantasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . 
1	kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . 
0	billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . 
1	here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . 
1	cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . 
1	while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whimsy . 
1	we've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher . 
1	this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . 
0	bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie . 
0	it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . 
1	an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . 
1	it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's head
1	holm . . . embodies the character with an effortlessly regal charisma . 
0	mild , meandering teen flick . 
0	an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . 
0	given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . 
1	one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who sees it . 
0	does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters
0	scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you're too buff / fred thinks he's tough / and velma - wow , you've lost weight ! 
1	godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . 
1	energetic and boldly provocative . 
0	[a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . 
0	after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . 
1	this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it . 
1	this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . 
1	an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . 
1	spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . 
1	at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . 
0	a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . 
0	takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . 
0	a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . 
1	precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? 
1	an asian neo-realist treasure . 
0	denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . 
1	sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . 
0	screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . 
0	manages to show life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . 
1	foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . 
1	not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . 
1	an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order
1	bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . 
1	despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . 
0	passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . 
1	everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . 
0	the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . 
1	[drumline] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . 
1	terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . 
0	for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time . 
1	at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . 
1	what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch . 
0	some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . 
0	the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . 
0	has its moments , but it's pretty far from a treasure . 
0	 . . . blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . 
1	one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . 
0	feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . 
1	amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . 
1	zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space adventure . 
1	having never been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . 
1	a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say . 
1	the film's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . 
1	 . . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . 
1	the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . 
1	its sheer dynamism is infectious . 
1	if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . 
0	a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . 
1	dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . 
0	a beautifully made piece of unwatchable drivel . 
0	another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . 
0	this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . 
1	impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . 
0	a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . 
0	a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade . 
1	a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . 
1	manages to delight without much of a story . 
0	unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . 
0	sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its lan , humor , bile , and irony . 
0	there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . 
0	the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . 
1	the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . 
1	invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . 
1	a teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting , less symmetrical , less obviously cross-shaped creation . 
1	it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . 
0	 " the kid stays in the picture " is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . 
1	denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . 
1	there's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . 
1	though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . 
0	everything that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . 
0	sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . 
0	the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . 
1	confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . 
1	it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun . 
0	when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best
0	it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . 
0	apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . 
0	 . . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already . 
1	there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . 
0	it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . 
0	american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . 
1	with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . 
0	the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . 
0	watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music never heard . 
1	el peso de un lquido incoloro , el peso del lquido vital , del amor como elemento de vida , y de muerte . . . 
1	continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . 
0	an awful snooze . 
0	all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . 
1	to call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . 
1	another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . 
0	at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . 
0	such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . 
0	overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film . 
1	it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . 
1	a small movie with a big impact . 
0	it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . 
1	a charming but slight comedy . 
0	while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . 
1	rifkin's references are . . . impeccable throughout . 
1	throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment . 
0	co-writer/director jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . 
0	a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art . 
1	clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises  but still quite tasty and inviting all the same . 
0	children and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . 
1	robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . 
1	belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big , brassy , disturbing , unusual and highly successful film . 
1	those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give " scratch " a second look . 
1	it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout . 
1	a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . 
0	chen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . 
0	watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . 
0	many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . 
1	this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . 
1	a smart , witty follow-up . 
0	god is great , the movie's not . 
1	for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . 
0	a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . 
0	it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . 
1	a vivid cinematic portrait . 
1	if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you - decasia
0	a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . 
0	blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . 
0	though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . 
0	an opportunity missed . 
1	the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . 
1	laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . 
1	begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . 
1	an engaging overview of johnson's eccentric career . 
0	as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . 
0	boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . 
1	brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition . 
0	you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . 
1	every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy
1	the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's best work in some time . 
1	the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne
1	wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . 
1	thoroughly enjoyable . 
0	an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . 
0	a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre
0	in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '
1	savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . 
0	opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between . 
0	i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . 
1	what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . 
0	cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . 
0	benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . 
1	proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent sequel . 
0	it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly . 
1	a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . 
1	at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . 
1	whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria . 
1	playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . 
0	the picture doesn't know it's a comedy . 
1	weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . 
0	bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . 
1	it's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . 
1	george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . 
0	for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . 
1	a tender , heartfelt family drama . 
1	viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . 
1	the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . 
0	too silly to take seriously . 
0	sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . 
1	bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la celluloid . 
0	soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . 
1	it's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . 
1	it will delight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . 
1	almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like " the addams family " to everyone looking in . . . " my big fat greek wedding " comes from the heart . . . 
1	payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business . 
1	like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . 
0	may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . 
1	a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . 
1	the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture . 
0	there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . 
0	a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . 
1	this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . 
0	 . . . a confusing drudgery . 
0	 . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . 
1	good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . 
1	a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . 
1	if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . 
0	ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . 
0	a dull , dumb and derivative horror film . 
1	gambling and throwing a basketball game for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . 
0	an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . 
0	tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . 
1	a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . 
0	rather less than the sum of its underventilated pre-fils confrontations . 
0	 is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful . 
0	so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . 
0	lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . 
0	this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . 
0	to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . 
1	the komediant is a tale worth catching . 
0	directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . 
0	on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . 
1	if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite . 
0	viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . 
0	the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . 
0	it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . 
1	it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid . 
0	there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale . 
0	there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . 
1	its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time . 
1	as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel " the death of napoleon " and directed by alan taylor , napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn
1	really quite funny . 
0	k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . 
0	earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . 
0	even if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . 
0	imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with footage from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . 
1	a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . 
1	the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . 
1	what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . 
1	mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . 
1	roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck  few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project . 
0	the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . 
1	seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . 
1	working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . 
1	desta vez , columbus capturou o pomo de ouro . 
1	morton is , as usual , brilliant . 
1	passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . 
0	director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . 
0	 . . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . 
1	rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . 
1	uses high comedy to evoke surprising poignance . 
0	if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . 
0	been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . 
1	the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . 
0	drowning's too good for this sucker . 
0	one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . 
1	gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . 
1	a piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . 
0	a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . 
1	told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . 
0	davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is . 
1	 " mr . deeds " is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought . 
1	unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . 
0	tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span . 
1	that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . 
0	shallow . 
1	a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . 
1	the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . 
0	queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . 
1	it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . 
1	the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . 
0	reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . 
1	the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . 
0	there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . 
1	it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . 
0	this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . 
0	it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . 
1	it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . 
1	the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . 
1	an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . 
0	it is a comedy that's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . 
1	murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . 
0	not once does it come close to being exciting . 
0	kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . 
0	just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . 
1	it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . 
0	the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . 
1	the film's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . 
1	what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? 
0	for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience
0	as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . 
0	too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . 
1	an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad . 
0	borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . 
0	the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . 
0	the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . 
0	a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse . 
1	eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spike lee . 
0	what goes on for the 110 minutes of " panic room " is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . 
1	jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . 
1	one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . 
0	eckstraordinarily lame and severely boring . 
1	japanese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . 
1	a feel-good picture in the best sense of the term . 
0	while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . 
1	the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well directed . 
0	it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . 
1	on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film . 
1	watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . 
0	somehow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . 
0	de niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . 
0	like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . 
0	a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . 
0	lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . 
0	it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . 
1	more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . 
1	it's an offbeat treat that pokes fun at the democratic exercise while also examining its significance for those who take part . 
1	its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . 
1	like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . 
1	an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express toward a new year of magic and mischief . 
0	if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . 
1	captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . 
1	the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . 
1	compellingly watchable . 
1	rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . 
1	insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! 
1	from the opening strains of the average white band's " pick up the pieces " , you can feel the love . 
0	walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . 
1	an original little film about one young woman's education . 
1	there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies . 
1	it's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . 
1	a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine . 
1	bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough . 
1	a different kind of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . 
1	although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fun . 
1	 . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . 
0	one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . spears . 
0	a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . 
1	 " it's all about the image . " 
0	there's suspension of disbelief and then there's bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . 
0	chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . 
1	with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . 
0	the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bad rap . 
1	while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . 
0	unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party . 
0	just plain silly . 
1	an impressive if flawed effort that indicates real talent . 
0	the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . 
0	an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . 
0	an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . 
0	sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . 
1	a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' bow wow . 
1	while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest . 
1	as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . 
1	edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery . 
1	i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . 
1	an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient
0	it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune . 
1	a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions . 
1	majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . 
0	the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . 
0	this is really just another genre picture . 
1	it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . 
0	dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? 
1	a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . 
0	it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . 
0	terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . 
1	a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser . 
1	like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . 
1	 " cremaster 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! " 
1	somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . 
0	john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . 
0	the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . 
1	there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . 
0	the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . 
0	what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . 
0	the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . 
0	may puzzle his most ardent fans . 
0	an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . 
1	a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . 
1	a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . 
1	hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . 
1	nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate theme . 
1	it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . 
0	for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably run out screaming . 
0	the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept . 
0	writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . '
1	a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . 
1	graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world . 
1	while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . 
0	the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . 
0	the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles  several of them . 
0	wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . 
0	the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . 
0	feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . 
0	cassavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . 
0	much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . 
0	there's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . 
1	sex with strangers is fascinating . . . 
0	what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . 
1	makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . 
0	it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . 
1	all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely . 
1	this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . 
0	most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's radio show and his simpson voice-overs . 
1	a taut , sobering film . 
1	what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . 
1	this 90-minute postmodern voyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than i'd expected it to be . 
1	the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . 
1	an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world . 
0	it's got the brawn , but not the brains . 
1	by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . 
1	pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . 
0	an afterschool special without the courage of its convictions . 
0	nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . 
1	you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . 
0	for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . 
1	 " the mothman prophecies " is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls . 
0	exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . 
0	except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . 
0	despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . 
0	the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . 
0	the film would work much better as a video installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . 
0	it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . 
0	nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break . 
0	like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . 
1	a movie of riveting power and sadness . 
0	except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . 
1	offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing . 
1	an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . 
1	takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer
1	a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . 
0	 . . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch . 
1	viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic . 
0	a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . 
0	this is a good movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . 
1	to the degree that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance . 
1	the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . 
0	content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . 
1	mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . 
1	the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . 
1	this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . 
1	a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . '
0	solaris " is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . 
1	though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . 
1	[ns] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . 
1	compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . 
1	 " brown sugar " admirably aspires to be more than another " best man " clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film . 
0	this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life . 
1	reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . 
0	this time kaufman's imagination has failed him . 
1	forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . 
0	unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . 
0	[seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . 
0	a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . 
1	an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence . 
0	even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . 
1	[an] absorbing documentary . 
0	it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . 
1	this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . 
0	the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . 
0	did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? 
0	starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . 
0	for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear . 
0	an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving . 
0	the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? 
0	why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? 
0	here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . 
0	formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . 
0	an intriguing near-miss . 
1	a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . 
0	in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . 
1	the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . 
0	can't seem to get anywhere near the story's center . 
1	the rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . 
0	despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . 
0	things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . 
0	if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . 
1	sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . 
1	does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . 
0	shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . 
1	it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . 
0	the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . 
1	shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . 
1	a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . 
1	this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . 
1	white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . 
1	may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . 
1	aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . 
0	how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? 
1	birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . 
1	the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission . 
0	if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . 
1	originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . 
0	a sudsy cautionary tale . 
0	there may have been a good film in " trouble every day , " but it is not what is on the screen . 
1	exciting documentary . 
1	 " auto focus " works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era
0	humor in i spy is so anemic . 
1	it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . 
1	for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . 
0	i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x . 
0	formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . 
0	movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . 
1	spend your benjamins on a matinee . 
1	a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . 
1	murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth . 
1	yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . 
1	we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . 
0	the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . 
0	while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . 
0	it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . 
1	road to perdition does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . 
1	lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . 
0	with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . 
1	at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . 
1	this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . 
0	at first , the sight of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . 
1	goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . 
0	it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . 
1	so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '
0	apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . 
1	watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . 
0	the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . 
0	it all comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . 
0	the entire movie is filled with deja vu moments . 
1	a work of astonishing delicacy and force . 
0	for dance completists only . 
0	it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . 
0	sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . 
0	 . . . routine , harmless diversion and little else . 
0	the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . 
0	two hours of junk . 
0	if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . 
1	the delicious trimmingsarrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minutewith a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . 
1	as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . 
1	the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . 
0	wins my vote for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award . 
0	contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . 
0	it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . 
1	the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . 
0	this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . 
1	the pitch must have read like a discarded house beautiful spread . 
0	the cold turkey would've been a far better title . 
1	 . . . only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . 
0	bad company leaves a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . 
1	one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . 
0	offensive in the way it exploits the hot-button issue of domestic abuse for cheap thrills and disgusting in the manner it repeatedly puts a small child in jeopardy , treating her as little more than a prop to be cruelly tormented . 
1	birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . 
0	opens as promising as any war/adventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama , better suited for a movie titled " glory : a soldier's story . " 
0	it might not be 1970s animation , but everything else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons  a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness . 
1	windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live . 
1	i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you . 
1	this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . 
0	it's just not very smart . 
1	a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . 
0	it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . 
1	reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . 
1	with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . 
1	even if you can't pronounce " gyro " correctly , you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor , which transcends ethnic boundaries . 
0	reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . 
0	a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . 
0	that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies . 
1	even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to watch . 
1	watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . 
0	sit through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . 
1	the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . 
1	caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . 
0	woody allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . 
1	one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . 
1	brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . 
0	eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . 
0	since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story . 
0	although based on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for two hours . 
1	[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . 
0	on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc . , without the latter's imagination , visual charm or texture . 
1	it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years . 
0	a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . 
1	audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . 
1	a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . 
0	boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas . 
0	its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . 
0	despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . 
1	a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . 
1	earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . 
1	the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . 
0	mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . 
0	as an actor , the rock is aptly named . 
1	judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . 
1	rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes . 
1	bright seems alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches . 
1	it's the best film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . 
1	a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . 
0	yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . 
0	potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . 
1	wise and deadpan humorous . 
1	very predictable but still entertaining
1	 . . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . 
0	an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . 
0	the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . 
1	exhilarating but blatantly biased . 
1	upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them . 
0	hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . 
0	 . . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . 
1	you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . 
1	a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . 
0	we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . 
0	there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . 
0	though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . 
1	same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . 
0	george , hire a real director and good writers for the next installment , please . 
1	a mess , but it's a sincere mess . 
1	by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . 
1	[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place . 
0	the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . 
0	a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '
1	a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . 
0	a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . 
1	far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . 
1	craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . 
0	it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest - audience sadism -- is evaded completely . 
0	the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . 
0	let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . 
1	too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience . 
1	unflinchingly bleak and desperate
0	it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . 
0	 . . . better described as a ghost story gone badly awry . 
0	the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is . 
0	it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . 
1	worth a look as a curiosity . 
1	both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . 
1	with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . 
1	the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . 
0	most of the action setups are incoherent . 
1	williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . 
0	an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . 
0	if disney's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet makes . 
1	the film hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . 
0	detox is ultimately a pointless endeavor . 
0	whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wife/colleague , terri -- is a movie children should enjoy . 
0	one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . 
1	what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration . 
1	the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . 
1	gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . 
1	 . . . quite endearing . 
1	it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . 
1	not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . 
0	this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . 
1	 a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . 
1	it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . 
1	broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . 
1	84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun . 
0	the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . 
0	the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . 
1	a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . 
0	just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of time . 
1	is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to find out . 
0	the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . 
0	impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . 
1	terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . 
0	it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . 
0	paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . 
0	the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . 
1	there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . 
0	[a] rather thinly-conceived movie . 
0	woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . 
0	it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . 
1	as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . 
0	there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . 
1	were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . 
1	reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . 
1	it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . 
1	a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . 
0	two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . 
0	a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 . 
1	'frailty " starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . 
1	far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . 
1	a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . 
0	his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . 
1	a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . 
0	it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . 
1	a poignant lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . 
1	a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . 
1	pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins . 
1	unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge . 
0	the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . 
0	there's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . 
0	godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . 
0	this isn't a movie ; it's a symptom . 
0	scotland , pa . blurs the line between black comedy and black hole . 
0	if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . 
0	the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . 
1	robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . 
1	remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . 
1	what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . 
0	reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . 
1	although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . 
0	looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . 
1	the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . 
1	while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care . 
0	an " o bruin , where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . 
0	the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . 
0	nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . 
0	as it stands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . 
0	[l]ame and unnecessary . 
0	the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . 
1	deliriously funny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises
0	when a set of pre-shooting guidelines a director came up with for his actors turns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished film , that's a bad sign . a very bad sign . 
0	the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . 
0	it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . 
0	what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . 
1	what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . 
0	collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-9/11 , an antique , in the end . as are its star , its attitude and its obliviousness . 
0	the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . 
1	the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . 
0	harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . 
0	like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . 
0	kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . 
0	has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release . 
0	solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke
1	australian actor/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . 
0	the central story lacks punch . 
0	 . . . unbearably lame . 
1	in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . 
0	less than fresh . 
0	crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama . 
0	never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . 
0	it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van . 
1	an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . 
1	until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . 
1	because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . 
1	stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . 
0	a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . 
0	what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . 
0	presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . 
0	ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . 
1	a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . 
0	a grating , emaciated flick . 
1	it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . 
0	a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . 
0	it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . 
1	though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . 
0	silly , loud and goofy . 
0	in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . 
0	fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . 
1	what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . 
1	enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . 
0	it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . 
0	a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . 
1	it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise . 
1	a must see for all sides of the political spectrum
0	horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . 
1	my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . 
1	this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . 
1	a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . 
1	a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . 
1	watching beanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it . 
0	amazingly lame . 
1	those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . 
1	a three-hour cinema master class . 
0	charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing . 
0	the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . 
0	it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . 
1	the performances are uniformly good . 
1	leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . 
0	this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation . 
1	it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . 
1	an infinitely wittier version of the home alone formula . 
0	too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century . 
0	it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . 
0	during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . 
1	mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . 
1	it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . 
0	it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . 
1	ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . '
1	achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium . 
1	a moving and solidly entertaining comedy/drama that should bolster director and co-writer juan jos campanella's reputation in the united states . 
1	these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . 
0	sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . 
0	charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions . 
0	sensitive though not quite revelatory documentary . 
1	the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . 
0	[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . 
1	a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . 
0	even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . 
0	perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . 
0	flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journey . 
1	a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy . 
1	a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for terror . 
0	thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . 
0	an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades
0	the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . 
0	it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractors always accuse him of making . 
1	the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . 
0	 . . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa dud from frame one . 
1	maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . 
1	the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . 
0	that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . 
1	one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far tamer than advertised . 
1	 " white oleander , " the movie , is akin to a reader's digest condensed version of the source material . 
1	i'd watch these two together again in a new york minute . 
0	just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . 
1	tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . 
0	fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . 
0	kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . 
0	it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . 
0	a little objectivity could have gone a long way . 
0	the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . 
1	director rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one . 
1	a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . 
0	so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . 
1	unpretentious , charming , quirky , original
1	like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . 
0	a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . 
1	michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . 
1	this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . 
0	quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . 
0	every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . 
1	[the film] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whether the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . 
0	the stories here suffer from the chosen format . 
1	the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but  in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has  ironically - distanced us from the characters . 
1	an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . 
1	there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . 
1	rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . 
1	australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . 
1	a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understated and touching . 
0	stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . 
0	it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . 
1	wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . 
1	evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . 
0	dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted
1	for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo . 
0	the thriller side of this movie is falling flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the concept of actually investigating the case . 
0	yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . 
1	if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . 
0	the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tossed at them . 
0	it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . 
0	the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . 
0	you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . 
1	[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . 
1	poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . 
1	a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . 
0	the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . 
1	not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some time . 
1	soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . 
0	a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . 
0	bland but harmless . 
1	even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . 
1	disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . 
0	for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . 
0	it can't decide if it wants to be a mystery/thriller , a romance or a comedy . 
0	the action clichs just pile up . 
1	a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . 
1	despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . 
1	just offbeat enough to keep you interested without coming close to bowling you over . 
1	a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness . 
0	hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . 
1	the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . 
1	it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnerving way . 
0	a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . '
1	a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . 
0	the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . 
0	there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . 
0	 . . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . 
1	with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . 
1	 a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we're all in this together . 
0	the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . 
0	a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not . 
0	the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . 
0	alternately frustrating and rewarding . 
0	an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium . 
1	a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . 
1	my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . 
0	while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . 
0	problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . 
1	antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . 
0	who needs love like this ? 
1	the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . 
1	feral and uncomfortable . 
1	a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . 
0	there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . 
0	to say analyze that is de niro's best film since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . 
1	a film that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . 
1	a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . 
0	the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . 
1	the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . 
0	it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . 
0	the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . 
1	there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . 
1	though it's become almost redundant to say so , major kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . 
0	at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . 
0	'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . 
1	'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . 
1	beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . 
1	a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film . 
0	there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . 
0	it bites hard . 
1	one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . 
1	unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . 
1	a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old " twilight zone " episode . 
0	the french director has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . 
1	lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects
1	who knows what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . 
1	could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . 
1	smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . 
1	call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity . 
0	even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . 
0	there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . 
1	the film brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . 
0	it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . 
0	a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crme brle . 
1	a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash
1	one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . 
0	distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . 
1	in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . 
0	more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . 
0	 . . . silly humbuggery . . . 
0	a markedly inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confessional . 
1	kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . 
1	is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's like having an old friend for dinner' . 
0	collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . 
0	director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . 
1	director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of " iris " or " american beauty , " but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . 
0	presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . 
0	there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . 
1	the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . 
0	call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid . 
1	the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . 
0	the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . 
0	a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . 
1	a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . 
1	broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . 
0	watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . 
0	this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '
1	a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . 
1	not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . 
1	it's a glorious groove that leaves you wanting more . 
1	kinnear's performance is a career-defining revelation . 
0	imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . 
0	a quaint , romanticized rendering . 
1	one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . 
1	merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . 
0	despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . 
0	for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . 
1	this flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . 
0	a lifetime movie about men . 
1	graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . 
0	fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . 
0	if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . 
1	it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . 
0	credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves
1	a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds . 
0	what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . 
1	 " the ring " is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that inspired it , and it carries the same strengths and flaws . 
0	one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . 
1	a wonderful character-based comedy . 
1	waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . 
0	welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it , but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst . 
1	like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . 
1	starts slowly , but adrien brody  in the title role  helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . 
0	the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie
0	the film is really not so much bad as bland . 
1	[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh . 
1	it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . 
1	below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . 
1	if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . 
0	it's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped em together here . 
1	one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the year . 
1	both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . 
0	reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish . 
1	without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . 
0	the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament . 
0	it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than six years old . 
1	it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . 
1	damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . 
1	this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . 
1	feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . 
0	 . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . 
0	all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . 
1	a funny film . 
1	this is a very fine movie -- go see it . 
0	i can analyze this movie in three words : thumbs friggin' down . 
0	i'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film . 
1	this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . 
1	colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . 
1	the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . 
0	there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . 
0	haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . 
0	made by jackasses for jackasses . 
0	teen movies have really hit the skids . 
0	the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . 
0	robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . 
1	an enjoyable above average summer diversion . 
1	without [de niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . 
1	[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . . 
1	a lot smarter than your average bond . 
0	if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . 
1	a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . 
0	the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . 
1	two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . 
1	the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . 
0	a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . 
1	all three women deliver remarkable performances . 
1	smart , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . 
1	the movie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . 
1	though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film . 
1	this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . 
1	an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . 
1	at its best early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . 
0	characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . 
0	they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . 
0	despite the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plotting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . 
0	while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . 
0	even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . 
1	it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original . 
1	with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie . 
0	not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . 
1	bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . 
0	i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . 
1	 . . . a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . 
1	a pleasant romantic comedy . 
1	not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . 
0	murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . 
0	throw smoochy from the train ! 
1	feardotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . 
0	clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverence . 
0	gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . 
0	a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . 
1	sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . 
1	suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . 
1	i liked this film a lot . . . 
1	i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . 
0	the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . 
0	hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . 
0	this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . 
1	worth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . 
0	the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . 
0	for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . 
1	the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable . 
1	lovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . 
0	who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're back ! " , " they're out there ! " and " they're coming ! " 
1	while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . 
0	as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . 
0	i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . 
0	 . . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . 
1	a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . 
0	a very average science fiction film . 
1	what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . 
1	for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . 
1	if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . 
1	i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . 
1	as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting . 
0	one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . 
1	an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . 
1	the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's never boring . 
1	the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . 
1	despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . 
0	reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script
0	a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . 
0	the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . 
0	pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . 
0	the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . 
0	warmed-over hash . 
1	it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously . 
1	cube's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . 
0	sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't save it . 
0	a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have meant the internet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . 
0	the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . 
0	utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . 
0	earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock . 
0	this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . 
1	one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . 
0	unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks " the four feathers " bare . 
0	this isn't a " friday " worth waiting for . 
1	imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor
1	this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . 
0	the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . 
1	this is one of polanski's best films . 
0	as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . 
0	loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . 
1	a french film with a more down-home flavor . 
0	ah-nuld's action hero days might be over . 
0	purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . 
1	building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . 
1	lejos del paraso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y odos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . 
0	it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . 
0	appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never quite ignites . 
1	i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . 
0	an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . 
1	there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over . 
1	an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment . 
1	your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . 
1	beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . 
0	there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . 
0	there is not an ounce of honesty in the entire production . 
1	it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . 
0	instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . 
0	an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movie dogma . 
0	an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . 
1	a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . 
1	 . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams . 
0	in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . 
0	the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . 
0	outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken
1	miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . 
0	a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . 
0	a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . 
1	coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . 
0	with tiny little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool . 
1	audacious-impossible yet compelling . . . 
1	this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . 
0	the movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? 
0	 . . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . 
0	it looks good , but it is essentially empty . 
0	if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg . 
1	shiner can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship material
1	if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! 
1	like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . 
1	narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . 
1	missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . 
1	elegant , mannered and teasing . 
0	this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of damon runyon crooks . 
0	certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . 
0	freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . 
1	the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . 
0	broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . 
1	at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . 
1	fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . 
1	there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch . 
0	sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . 
0	a selection of scenes in search of a movie . 
0	the movie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth . 
1	less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . 
0	bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . 
0	with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer/director/producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry . 
0	the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . 
0	nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . 
1	compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . 
0	the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . 
1	the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . 
0	director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . 
1	that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . 
0	it tries too hard , and overreaches the logic of its own world . 
0	to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . 
0	nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try . 
1	elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them . 
0	some of seagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . 
0	in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . 
1	where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examination of america's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . 
0	it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . 
1	everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . 
1	at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . 
1	an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . 
1	an exhilarating serving of movie fluff . 
0	whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . 
1	an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing . 
0	like the world of his film , hartley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . 
0	divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy . 
0	if this holiday movie is supposed to be a gift , somebody unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff , and left behind the crap ( literally ) . 
0	good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . 
0	exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . 
1	a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . 
1	a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . 
1	the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess built into it . 
0	spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . 
0	a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . 
1	but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . 
1	a classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done . 
1	a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . 
0	alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . 
1	even these tales of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . 
0	i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was making no sense at all . 
1	[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . 
1	evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's " house of games " and last fall's " heist " so much fun . 
1	the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . 
1	i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . 
1	as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '
0	in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . 
1	wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . 
0	'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '
1	thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . 
0	we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . 
1	the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . 
1	throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another . 
1	the film is one of the year's best . 
0	loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . 
1	i couldn't recommend this film more . 
1	this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . 
0	feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . 
0	enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . 
0	for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . 
1	it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . 
1	[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel . 
1	ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . 
1	the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true " us " versus " them " . 
1	brave and sweetly rendered love story . 
1	it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas . 
0	interesting and thoroughly unfaithful version of carmen
0	this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '
0	this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . 
0	there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down . 
1	as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . 
1	brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness . 
0	what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . 
0	the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . 
0	the movie gets muted and routine . 
0	a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . 
1	tends to pile too many " serious issues " on its plate at times , yet remains fairly light , always entertaining , and smartly written . 
0	director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . 
1	what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america . . . sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight
0	there's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . 
0	scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . 
1	featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , " sade " covers the same period as kaufmann's " quills " with more unsettlingly realistic results . 
0	john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . 
0	a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . 
0	a clichd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . 
0	as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . 
1	a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . 
1	shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . 
0	there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . 
1	it's funny , as the old saying goes , because it's true . 
0	the thrill is ( long ) gone . 
1	director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . 
0	the attempt is courageous , even if the result is wildly uneven . 
1	the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . 
1	cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera . 
1	for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . 
1	if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it . 
0	if you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then . 
0	a film that loses sight of its own story . 
0	mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . 
1	every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . 
0	on the right track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to get there . 
0	there's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself . 
1	an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . 
0	for all its surface frenzy , high crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view , so little to offer . 
1	worth the effort to watch . 
1	blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . 
0	a zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . 
0	dismally dull sci-fi comedy . 
0	so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming . 
1	if you're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you're looking for . it depends on how well flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . 
0	a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . 
1	comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . 
1	australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . 
0	scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . 
0	the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years . 
0	preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . 
0	it's just a little too self-satisfied . 
0	the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . 
1	twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down  greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . 
0	there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . 
0	the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments . 
1	 . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . 
0	terminally brain dead production . 
1	it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . 
1	while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . 
1	all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . 
1	slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . 
0	the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood . 
0	too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel . 
1	although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . 
0	a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . 
0	a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . 
0	while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . 
0	disjointed parody . 
1	like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . 
0	don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk . 
1	a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . 
0	lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . 
1	the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . 
0	bearable . barely . 
0	the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . 
1	i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . 
1	one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . 
1	 . . . a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs  sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . 
1	what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . 
0	with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . 
0	a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . 
1	[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . 
0	i wish i could say " thank god it's friday " , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . 
1	death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . 
1	intriguing and stylish . 
1	samuel beckett applied to the iranian voting process . 
1	ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon
1	goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! 
0	if you saw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police . 
0	another week , another gross-out college comedy--ugh . 
0	when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . 
0	instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started . 
0	the story itself is actually quite vapid . 
1	what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . 
0	competently directed but terminally cute drama . 
1	it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . 
0	at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . 
0	jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . 
1	from spiritual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean renoir . 
1	brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . 
0	as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . 
1	in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness . 
1	poignant and funny . 
0	egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . 
1	one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this year . 
0	 in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reduction . 
1	a dark , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation . 
0	offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . 
1	flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performance . 
1	he's the scariest guy you'll see all summer . 
0	it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making . 
0	i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . 
0	long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser . 
1	ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detachment that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card . 
1	cool ? this movie is a snow emergency . 
0	as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame . 
0	if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . 
0	 . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . 
0	enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . 
0	it's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns . 
1	so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . 
1	chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . 
1	a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . 
0	i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . 
0	the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . 
1	this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments . 
1	a painfully funny ode to bad behavior . 
1	 . . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . 
0	it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television . 
1	the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . 
0	the real question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? '
1	not a cozy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . 
0	if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . 
1	most haunting about " fence " is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us
0	mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . 
0	this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . 
0	mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . 
1	the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor . 
1	a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . 
0	lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . 
1	noyce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective . 
0	an extremely unpleasant film . 
0	in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . 
1	'it's better to go in knowing full well what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists . cynics need not apply . '
1	a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers . 
1	 . . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . 
0	a film that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . 
1	it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . 
1	as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . 
0	an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . 
1	the recording session is the only part of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of fandom . 
1	sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . 
0	with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . 
0	suffers from all the excesses of the genre . 
0	it's not just the vampires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . 
0	whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . 
1	knows how to make our imagination wonder . 
1	a muted freak-out
1	compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . 
0	a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . 
1	the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . 
0	this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . 
0	director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the " miami vice " checklist of power boats , latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't , however , deliver nearly enough of the show's trademark style and flash . 
1	the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . 
1	plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . 
0	the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . 
1	rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . 
1	at just over an hour , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . 
1	it is definitely worth seeing . 
0	in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . 
1	one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . 
0	what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . 
1	underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . 
0	this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . 
0	the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few good laughs . 
0	the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . 
1	the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . 
1	with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . 
0	you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story . 
0	it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . 
0	to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . 
1	this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . 
1	it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . 
1	hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . 
0	a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it . 
1	a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . 
1	preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . 
1	romanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . 
1	its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . 
0	the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . 
0	a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies . 
0	complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort
0	a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . 
0	devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . 
1	plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . 
0	possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . 
0	'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . 
0	what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . 
0	hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ain't pretty . 
0	about as satisfying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through . 
1	a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . 
1	less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . 
0	imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . 
1	it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . 
0	the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . 
1	a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . 
1	affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . 
0	without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelstrm is just another winter sleepers . 
1	one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . 
1	if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . 
0	de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back . 
0	summer's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this . 
1	its gentle , touching story creeps into your heart . 
1	oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition . 
0	the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered . 
0	it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . 
0	though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation . 
1	it's the sweet cinderella story that " pretty woman " wanted to be . 
0	[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . 
0	[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . 
0	several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in " unfaithful . " why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . 
0	this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . 
0	just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . 
1	norton is magnetic as graham . 
1	the date movie that franz kafka would have made . 
0	flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . 
1	at its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . 
0	van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . 
0	[green is] the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . 
1	there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works . 
0	chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror . 
1	macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role . 
0	let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay home . 
1	charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . 
1	graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . 
0	as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up . 
1	grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . 
0	as pedestrian as they come . 
0	there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted . 
1	you're not merely watching history , you're engulfed by it . 
1	it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . 
1	the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . 
0	it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . 
0	borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . 
0	judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . 
0	halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . 
0	the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts . 
0	despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . 
0	for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . 
1	spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivers the goods . 
1	drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . 
1	one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . 
0	the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . 
0	mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . 
1	nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . 
1	noyce has worked wonders with the material . 
0	despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . 
1	noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . 
1	one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . 
0	ninety minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included
0	a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . 
0	[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . 
1	one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . 
1	[it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . 
1	nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years . 
1	half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film
0	the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . 
1	has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now . 
1	boisterous , heartfelt comedy . 
1	everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . 
0	flat , misguided comedy . 
1	leigh's film is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . 
1	it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two weddings and a funeral " fun . 
1	both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others . 
0	in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . 
0	every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . 
0	nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . 
0	the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossible to care . 
1	saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion . 
1	the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny . 
0	a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . 
0	an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . 
0	so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . 
0	bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . 
0	the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . 
0	no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . 
0	like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . 
0	all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . 
0	 . . . too sappy for its own good . 
0	opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . 
0	distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . 
1	a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , revenge and above all , faith . 
0	a summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . 
1	delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . 
1	what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . 
0	in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . 
1	there's a lot to recommend read my lips . 
0	the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9/11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . 
1	secretary is just too original to be ignored . 
0	there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . 
1	in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . 
1	there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . 
0	a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . 
0	it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . 
0	the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . 
0	a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . 
0	a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . 
0	 . . . too dull to enjoy . 
0	it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . 
0	it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track . 
1	waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originality . 
0	[t]he film is never sure to make a clear point  even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . 
1	affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . 
1	pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . 
1	an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . 
1	do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? 
1	this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . 
1	some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . 
0	get out your pooper-scoopers . 
1	clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up . 
1	ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . 
0	once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't funny . 
1	imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi</b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! 
1	it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . 
0	it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny . 
1	attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . 
0	stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . 
1	consummate actor barry has done excellent work here . 
1	thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . 
1	after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . 
0	 . . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . 
1	it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . 
1	it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . 
1	this slight premise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . 
1	anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . 
1	vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . 
0	i got a headache watching this meaningless downer . 
1	everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . 
1	most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . 
1	the movie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events . 
1	it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year . 
0	bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon . 
1	while not as aggressively impressive as its american counterpart , " in the bedroom , " moretti's film makes its own , quieter observations
1	denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . 
0	just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . 
1	it's sweet . it's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . 
1	it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . 
1	'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generation . '
0	a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . 
1	thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda . 
0	if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . 
1	i don't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie . 
1	a quasi-documentary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . 
0	rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . 
1	a hugely rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . 
0	began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of course . 
0	christina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . 
0	do not see this film . 
0	feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . 
1	it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . 
0	why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? 
0	not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . 
1	despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . 
1	there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . 
1	troubling and powerful . 
0	build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . 
0	the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects  from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . 
0	if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . 
0	according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . 
0	a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . 
1	it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience . 
0	fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . 
0	we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left us cold . 
1	a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey comedy . 
0	 . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend " never again . " 
1	triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . 
0	hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . 
1	together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . 
1	a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs . 
1	you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the credits roll . 
1	star wars is back in a major way . 
1	some body will take you places you haven't been , and also places you have . 
1	el ttulo no engaa : la pelcula narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentar cierta realidad , y donde el sexo es . . . 
0	the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . 
0	the story and characters are nowhere near gripping enough . 
1	a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . 
0	feels shrill , simple and soapy . 
0	normally , rohmer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . 
0	its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . 
1	it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . 
1	an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . 
1	a stirring road movie . 
0	while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer
0	the film has [its] moments , but they are few and far between . 
0	ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . 
1	likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . 
0	director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . 
0	a sentimental mess that never rings true . 
0	the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . 
0	 . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . 
1	more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch . 
1	beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . 
1	what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . 
0	meyjes's movie , like max rothman's future , does not work . 
1	this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer . 
0	too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . 
0	a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . 
0	a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . 
1	for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . 
0	the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . 
1	it's got all the familiar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas . 
1	we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer . 
1	featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . 
1	viewers of " the ring " are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . 
1	it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . 
0	cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . 
1	mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . 
0	this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . 
1	here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . 
0	the movie is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students . 
1	we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . 
0	watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen . 
1	worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees . 
0	the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . 
1	there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . 
0	usually when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it . 
1	gives everyone something to shout about . 
0	haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . 
1	in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . 
0	something akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . 
0	watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . 
0	the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . 
0	what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? 
1	as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . 
1	anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . 
0	human nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . 
1	highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . 
1	bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . 
1	a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . 
0	though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . 
0	expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . 
0	it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject . 
1	an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do . 
0	these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a lapdance . 
1	shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high . 
0	seriously , rent the disney version . 
0	 " juwanna mann ? " no thanks . wewannour money back , actually . 
1	as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and luca] makes for an arousing good time . 
0	slap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half . 
1	captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted " other . " 
0	downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating . 
0	reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . 
1	able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history . 
1	it's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . 
1	with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . 
0	this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . 
1	hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . 
1	rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . 
0	what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . 
0	gere gives a good performance in a film that doesn't merit it . 
0	passably entertaining but also mechanical and joyless . 
0	 . . . hudlin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . 
0	in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . 
1	instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . 
0	it's tommy's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel like mopping up , too . 
1	[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . 
0	it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . 
1	each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man vs . the man . 
1	often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . 
1	an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . 
0	there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent . 
0	by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad . 
1	a slick , skillful little horror film . 
1	it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity . 
0	the mantra behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hard . '
1	fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . 
0	gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . 
0	an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . 
1	k-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn . 
1	keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . 
1	 " the turntable is now outselling the electric guitar . . . " 
1	chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achievement . 
1	polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? 
1	with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . 
0	[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . 
0	what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . 
0	a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind . 
1	an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . 
0	much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome clich . 
1	this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . 
1	an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . 
1	witty , vibrant , and intelligent . 
0	the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . 
1	'de niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . '
0	this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . 
1	ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . 
0	a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . '
0	how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? 
1	worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . 
0	it's drained of life in an attempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . 
1	you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . 
0	mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . 
1	if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . 
0	all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . 
0	the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . 
1	everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . 
0	i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very bad . 
1	this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . 
0	basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . 
0	a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . 
0	twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . 
1	a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest . 
1	thoughtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun . 
1	it's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you don't try to look too deep into the story
0	michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . 
1	with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in derry . 
0	your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . 
0	shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . 
1	the film is exhilarating to watch because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor . 
0	to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . 
0	whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . 
1	the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . 
0	mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . 
0	the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . 
1	this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . 
0	while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . 
0	often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? 
1	a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . 
1	the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed . 
1	post 9/11 the philosophical message of " personal freedom first " might not be as palatable as intended . 
1	highly watchable stuff . 
1	i encourage young and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! 
1	the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . 
1	exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . 
0	fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . 
1	'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '
0	troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . 
1	the script is smart , not cloying . 
1	devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . 
0	this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
0	the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition . 
0	solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , " erin brockovich , " " out of sight " and " ocean's eleven , " never were . 
1	possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . 
1	the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . 
1	ferrara's best film in years . 
0	it's all surface psychodramatics . 
0	as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . 
0	it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . 
1	this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of one of its most predictable . 
1	the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet . 
1	an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale . 
0	 . . . post-september 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . 
1	'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrn de orqudeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '
0	with a " spy kids " sequel opening next week , why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a " snl " has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? 
1	painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . 
1	more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . 
0	it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle . 
1	for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to stroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seeking out . 
0	the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . 
1	although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . 
1	steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece
0	the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . 
1	for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . 
1	a taut , intelligent psychological drama . 
0	the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself . 
1	provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . 
0	the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . 
0	the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . 
0	feels strangely hollow at its emotional core . 
1	i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here . 
0	julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . 
0	no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . 
0	has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . 
1	a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . 
0	in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '
1	 . . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a " what was it all for ? " feeling to it , but like the 1920's , the trip there is a great deal of fun . 
0	while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . 
0	no movement , no yuks , not much of anything . 
1	davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . 
0	cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . 
1	functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . 
1	makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . 
0	writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . 
1	after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen . 
0	the whole thing's fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . 
0	when the plot kicks in , the film loses credibility . 
1	 " the emperor's new clothes " begins with a simple plan . . . . well , at least that's the plan . 
0	hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . 
1	a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . 
1	this version's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . 
0	this formulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career . 
0	if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you . 
0	looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . 
1	a beautiful paean to a time long past . 
0	a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . 
1	weird . rewarding . 
0	scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be . 
1	apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien fundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . . 
0	the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . 
0	no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . 
1	ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . 
1	an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson . 
1	a hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . 
1	directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . 
0	while super troopers is above academy standards , its quintet of writers could still use some more schooling . 
0	a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . 
1	more than simply a portrait of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . 
0	it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . 
1	the long-range appeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . 
0	this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . 
1	gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . 
0	star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . 
1	nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . '
1	an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . 
0	too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash . 
1	a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . 
1	 . . . a well-observed and disturbing little movie
1	hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . 
1	a fun family movie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '
1	the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . 
0	although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . 
1	when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark . 
1	romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . 
0	[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . 
1	earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . 
1	an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema . 
1	like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series . 
0	the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . 
1	there's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . 
0	a collage of clichs and a dim echo of allusions to other films . 
0	the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . 
0	all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . 
0	has none of the crackle of " fatal attraction " , " 9  weeks " , or even " indecent proposal " , and feels more like lyne's stolid remake of " lolita " . 
1	the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . 
1	the visuals alone make metropolis worth seeing . 
0	cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . 
0	while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness . 
0	enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . 
1	photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . 
1	it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . 
0	the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . 
1	the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing . 
1	an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the theme of motherhood . 
1	a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clichs and showcases a group of dedicated artists . 
1	a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . 
1	there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . 
1	late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love . 
1	one funny popcorn flick . 
0	an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . 
0	a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . 
1	it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . 
0	a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards . 
0	neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . 
0	however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence . 
0	[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . 
0	the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? '
0	every note rings false . 
1	dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . 
0	circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . 
1	suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . 
1	a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . 
0	stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . 
1	the performances take the movie to a higher level . 
0	a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . 
1	witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . 
0	affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . 
1	it took 19 predecessors to get this ? 
0	everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . 
0	the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . 
1	the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . 
0	to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago . . . 
1	here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . 
1	what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . 
1	peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery
1	based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . 
0	one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i've ever seen . 
0	conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences . 
1	holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks . 
0	none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . 
0	always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . 
0	gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . 
1	mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopeful and always fun . 
0	its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . 
1	great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood . 
0	one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . 
0	the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . 
1	the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . 
0	'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . 
1	farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . 
1	symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . 
1	when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . 
1	a cutesy romantic tale with a twist . 
0	despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . 
1	as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . 
1	a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . 
1	most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . 
1	a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . 
1	the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . 
1	the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture . 
0	feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . 
0	as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . 
1	the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . 
1	a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . 
0	intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . 
0	the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . 
1	a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family . 
0	this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . 
0	doesn't amount to much of anything . 
0	 . . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . 
1	thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . 
0	late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . 
0	after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . 
0	heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . 
1	the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . 
1	don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some . 
1	insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . 
0	it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens
1	for movie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . 
1	a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . 
0	not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . 
1	angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . 
0	despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . 
0	ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . 
1	shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . 
0	lacks dramatic punch and depth . 
0	like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . 
0	[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain . 
1	a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films
0	[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . 
0	after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . 
1	a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . 
1	the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide . 
1	the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . 
1	a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' hearts . 
1	from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . 
0	an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy . 
0	none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . 
1	lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . 
1	a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . 
0	madonna still can't act a lick . 
1	lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience . but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming . 
0	a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . 
1	it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene . 
1	the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . 
1	if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch . 
0	blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky " pretty woman " retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . 
0	the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . 
0	caso voc sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do trmino da projeo , no se preocupe : ningum lhe enviar penas simbolizando covardia . 
1	full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . 
0	[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . 
0	the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . 
0	the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . 
0	the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . 
1	 the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . 
1	the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . 
0	occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . 
0	lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . 
1	you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt . 
0	supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . 
0	the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . 
1	an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . 
1	bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores . 
0	despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there
0	the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . 
1	both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . 
1	highly engaging . 
0	ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . 
1	carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . 
1	pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . 
1	the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . 
0	the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long . 
0	it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . 
0	watching " ending " is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . 
0	kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . 
0	fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . 
1	the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor treat . 
1	though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . 
1	i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's garbage . 
0	it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it . 
0	should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . 
0	parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . 
0	a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriage be saved ? " columns from ladies home journal . . . 
0	sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? 
0	de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . 
0	resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . 
0	drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . 
0	lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . 
0	in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . 
0	this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . 
0	the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . 
0	 . . . has virtually no script at all . . . 
0	green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project . 
1	cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . 
1	those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . 
0	amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . 
1	skip work to see it at the first opportunity . 
0	[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . 
1	it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . 
1	a beautifully observed character piece . 
1	will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . 
1	if you've ever wondered what an ending without the input of studio executives or test audiences would look like , here it is . 
1	y tu mam tambin es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quiz el proyecto ms arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarn
0	nearly every attempt at humor here is doa . 
1	director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . 
1	a tremendous piece of work . 
1	while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . 
0	the movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . 
1	an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs . 
0	the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . 
1	michel piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . 
0	though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . 
0	the most horrific movie experience i've had since " can't stop the music . " it may as well be called " jar-jar binks : the movie . " it's that painful . 
0	zaidan's script has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . 
1	a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . 
0	without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . 
0	no , it's not nearly as good as any of its influences . 
1	the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . 
0	the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . 
0	the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . 
1	if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie feels authentic . 
1	the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . 
1	hardly a film that comes along every day . 
0	for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . 
1	a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . 
1	the result is something quite fresh and delightful . 
0	unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . 
0	 . . . hokey art house pretension . 
1	the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . 
0	the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . 
1	pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical . 
0	in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . 
0	directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut . 
0	the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . 
1	nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . . 
0	a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . 
0	with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . 
1	a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . 
1	it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing . 
0	the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . 
0	never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . 
1	it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . 
0	adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? 
1	be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . 
1	even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . 
1	charlotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . 
0	originality is sorely lacking . 
0	'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '
1	henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect
1	jackson is always watchable . 
1	cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . 
1	an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy
1	discursive but oddly riveting documentary . 
0	stale , futile scenario . 
1	it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . 
1	both damning and damned compelling . 
0	'the chteau is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
0	this is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . 
0	the issue of faith is not explored very deeply
0	a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men . 
1	like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . 
0	all the queen's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . 
1	a sober and affecting chronicle of the leveling effect of loss . 
0	one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . 
1	a new film from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . 
0	i can't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . 
1	it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastic movie . 
1	crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . 
0	an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . 
1	max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . 
1	exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere . 
0	seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . 
0	the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change . 
1	a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make . 
1	the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . 
1	everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . 
0	it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . 
1	what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is . 
0	the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . 
0	it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut . 
0	very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in " stuart little 2 " : there's just no story , folks . 
1	it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . 
1	this beautifully animated epic is never dull . 
1	it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages . 
0	suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . 
1	intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being . 
1	as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . 
0	the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . 
0	your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . 
0	a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . 
1	despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . 
1	a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . 
0	i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise . 
1	whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . 
1	 . . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . 
0	a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . 
0	some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were made for the palm screen . 
0	well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy . 
1	'aunque recurre a ciertos clichs del gnero , la poderosa actuacin de robin williams perdona las fallas del guin . '
1	the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . 
0	bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film
1	a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . 
0	cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '
1	a slick , engrossing melodrama . 
1	stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . 
1	a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . 
1	like mike is a harmlessly nave slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . 
1	pray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . 
1	the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . 
1	a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . 
1	the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough . 
0	from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . 
1	both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . 
0	blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period . 
1	the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . 
1	it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . 
0	a non-mystery mystery . 
0	eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shot . 
0	the characters are based on stock clichs , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . 
1	the chateau is a risky venture that never quite goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy . 
0	curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . 
1	succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . 
0	 " collateral damage " goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment  until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief
0	there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . 
1	if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . 
1	allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today . 
0	a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . 
1	there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script . 
0	can't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . 
0	for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictable . 
1	the movie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting . 
1	occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremely effective . 
0	this thing works on no level whatsoever for me . 
1	best indie of the year , so far . 
1	nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head . 
0	shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . 
0	a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . 
0	there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . 
0	none of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funny . 
0	it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting . 
0	the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . 
0	though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . 
1	sure , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the film comes off winningly , even though it's never as solid as you want it to be . 
0	the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . 
1	by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . 
0	boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . 
1	as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten . 
0	when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . 
1	although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles . 
0	fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . 
1	one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made . 
0	the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . 
1	so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . 
0	mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . 
1	it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . 
1	tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . 
0	harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . 
1	funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic . 
1	k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . 
1	with tightly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises . 
1	made me unintentionally famous  as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen . 
0	despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . 
1	your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film . 
1	the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . 
0	ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! 
0	sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy chase and goldie hawn . 
1	otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye . 
0	labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . 
1	if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . 
0	partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . 
0	a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . 
0	like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . 
0	at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . 
1	it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . 
1	this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . 
0	will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . 
0	this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . 
0	it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . 
1	the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . 
0	the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . 
0	before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . 
1	an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values . 
0	while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . 
1	though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . 
1	it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . 
1	good , solid storytelling . 
1	s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . 
0	replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . 
1	a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . 
1	real women have curves doesn't offer any easy answers . 
1	there's an energy to y tu mam tambin . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . 
0	walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . 
0	 . . . a movie that , quite simply , shouldn't have been made . 
0	it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . 
1	the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things together , neatly , by the end . 
1	the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in " last dance " ] . 
1	the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . 
1	the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . 
0	has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . 
0	girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . 
1	huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine . 
0	in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . 
1	eric byler's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . 
0	if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . 
1	tackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audience down . 
0	glazed with a tawdry b-movie scum . 
0	a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . 
0	a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison . 
1	after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . 
1	dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . 
0	a prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp . 
0	the whole affair is as predictable as can be . 
0	each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . 
1	a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . 
1	this story still seems timely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends . 
1	the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . 
0	crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families . 
1	overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . 
1	it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . 
1	impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . 
0	full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure . 
1	god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . 
0	as social expos , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . 
0	there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . 
1	a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . 
0	scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . 
0	van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . 
0	festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . 
1	some movies are like a tasty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . 
1	using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . 
1	like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . 
0	nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . 
0	in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . 
0	the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . 
0	with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . 
0	seems like someone going through the motions . 
0	the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . 
1	beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proof fence . 
1	quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . 
0	what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . 
1	a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . 
0	its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up . 
0	would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . 
1	there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . 
1	a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . 
0	starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . 
0	gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . 
0	i'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unless you're the kind of person who has seen every wim wenders film of the '70s . 
1	i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . 
1	an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . 
0	a pretentious mess . 
0	barely goes beyond comic book status . 
0	it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . 
0	the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . 
1	ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . 
0	not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans . 
0	do we really need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? 
1	despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . 
0	the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . 
0	tiresomely derivative and hammily acted . 
1	steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . 
1	it's like a " big chill " reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . 
0	all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . 
1	transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . 
1	this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? 
0	completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . 
1	manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . 
0	i hate this movie
0	much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad . 
0	plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . 
1	a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . 
1	the film oozes craft . 
1	where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far less enjoyable . 
1	the film's sharp , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . 
0	this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . 
0	mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . 
0	while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . 
0	the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . 
0	i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . 
1	the lady and the duke is eric rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama
1	feels untidily honest . 
0	you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . 
0	imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . 
1	works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . 
1	exciting and well-paced . 
0	this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . 
0	it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . 
1	the movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . 
0	there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . 
0	somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . 
0	it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seem possible . 
0	an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work . 
0	a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . 
0	the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . 
1	a deep and meaningful film . 
1	intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . 
1	fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy . 
1	as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . 
0	consists of a plot and jokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g
1	last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . 
0	just one bad idea after another . 
1	if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . 
1	adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . 
1	dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . 
1	 . . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . 
0	a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . 
1	it's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . 
1	working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . 
1	frida isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway's the lion king and the film titus , brings . 
1	a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . 
0	lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . 
0	calculated swill . 
1	there's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . 
1	an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . 
0	a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real movie . 
1	this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . 
0	nothing more than a mediocre trifle . 
0	a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . 
1	the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . 
0	while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house . 
1	a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . 
0	the plot meanders from gripping to plodding and back . 
1	if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . 
0	a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . 
0	based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . 
1	a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride . 
1	a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . 
1	the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinema du sarcasm
0	occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often boring . 
0	this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . 
0	please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . 
1	is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . 
0	it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . 
1	'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del clsico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . '
1	a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered . 
1	it's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . 
1	it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . 
0	the story's pathetic and the gags are puerile . 
1	fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . 
1	never [sinks] into exploitation . 
1	this orange has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . 
1	a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world . 
0	report card : doesn't live up to the exalted tagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) . 
0	a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . 
0	adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . 
1	 . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . 
1	for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . 
0	i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . 
0	'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '
0	will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . 
0	suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . 
0	a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia
1	a deviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . 
1	rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . 
1	the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . 
1	while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're presented with a wry dark humor . 
1	deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . 
0	a singularly off-putting romantic comedy . 
1	 " mostly martha " is a bright , light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . 
0	will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . 
1	count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . 
0	this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . 
0	when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . 
0	it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . 
0	resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . 
1	its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . 
0	once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . 
1	the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . 
1	there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . 
1	if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . 
1	on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play . 
0	reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . 
1	if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . 
1	barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . 
1	life on the rez is no picnic : this picture shows you why . 
1	this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count elvira's hooters . 
0	this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . 
0	this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amlie . 
1	it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital video does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year . 
0	it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . 
1	quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . 
1	this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . 
0	definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . 
0	if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . 
0	everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . 
1	an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . 
0	you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! 
0	ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? 
1	if you're a fan of the series you'll love it and probably want to see it twice . i will be . 
1	i just loved every minute of this film . 
1	it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . 
0	ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . 
0	this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . 
1	like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . 
1	 . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . 
1	 " what really happened ? " is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . 
0	the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . 
1	the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . 
0	when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . 
1	some may choose to interpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darker . 
1	my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . 
1	this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities . 
1	it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . 
1	not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . 
1	cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . 
0	this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay . 
1	broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . 
0	the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . '
0	sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . 
1	while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . 
1	the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . 
1	roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . 
1	a conventional but heartwarming tale . 
1	raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . 
1	this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . 
0	well , it does go on forever . 
0	under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . 
1	sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . 
1	nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . 
1	when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , " real women have curves " is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . 
0	a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . 
0	i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . 
0	does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . 
0	glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . 
0	it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . 
0	crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . 
0	memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual . 
0	the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . 
0	needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . 
0	horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . 
1	good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . 
1	the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross's turn as ken . 
1	it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . 
1	 " antwone fisher " is an earnest , by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . 
1	provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . 
0	 . . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . 
0	jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . 
1	it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . 
0	it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it . 
1	there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . 
0	analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . 
0	a bit of an unwieldy mess . 
1	the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . 
0	if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . 
0	if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and clich . 
1	[a] real pleasure in its laid-back way . 
0	i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . 
0	the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . 
0	it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream : " got aids yet ? " 
0	feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . 
0	director david fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . 
0	meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . 
1	what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? 
0	a porn film without the sex scenes . 
1	a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . 
1	the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . 
1	the next generation of mob movie . part low rent godfather . part three stooges . 
1	a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy . 
1	 . . . an enjoyably frothy 'date movie' . . . 
1	renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . 
1	the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . 
0	the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . 
1	though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . 
0	it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding mtier . 
0	it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill
1	this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice . 
1	what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . 
1	creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . 
0	a film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity . 
0	 . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . 
0	so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . 
0	feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . 
1	an operatic , sprawling picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . 
1	provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue . 
1	happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . 
0	the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run . 
1	what it lacks in substance it makes up for in heart . 
0	 . . . salaciously simplistic . 
0	comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . 
1	the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . 
1	thanks to the chteau's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . 
1	the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . 
0	sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . 
1	what makes it worth watching is quaid's performance . 
0	[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . 
0	 . . . hypnotically dull . 
0	a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . 
1	 . . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . 
0	it was a dark and stormy night . . . 
1	the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . 
0	christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . 
1	not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . 
1	it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . 
0	miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . 
0	after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . 
1	makes s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . 
0	the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . 
0	not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . 
0	going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film . 
1	chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer . 
1	offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends . 
0	 . . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . 
1	a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two
0	innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good . 
0	uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . 
1	corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all . 
1	the wwii drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . 
1	[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialogue she creates for her characters . 
1	 . . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . 
0	there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . 
1	stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . 
0	roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . 
1	lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . 
1	[sports] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . 
1	here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . 
0	seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie . 
1	a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . 
0	as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . 
1	a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism . 
0	morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . 
0	you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . 
0	the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . 
1	a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . 
1	[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable . 
0	it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . 
1	offers that rare combination of entertainment and education . 
0	brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the point of suffocation . 
0	what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . 
0	believability wasn't one of the film's virtues . 
1	with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone
1	less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . 
1	drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth . 
0	a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . 
0	suffers from a decided lack of creative storytelling . 
0	this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations . 
1	nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . 
0	must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . 
0	children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . 
0	what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism . 
0	it's splash without the jokes . 
0	message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither . 
0	a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . 
0	the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . 
0	director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . 
0	de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . 
0	enduring love but exhausting cinema . 
0	there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . 
0	trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . 
1	 . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations . 
1	even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate . 
0	don't even bother to rent this on video . 
0	largely a for-fans artifact . 
1	the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . 
1	it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . 
1	paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . 
0	not a stereotype is omitted nor a clich left unsaid . 
1	 " me without you " is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . 
1	if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . 
1	surprisingly insightful
0	cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short film . 
1	human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . 
0	all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . 
0	 . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . 
1	the film has a kind of hard , cold effect . 
0	ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! 
0	weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . 
1	pull[s] off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but also the feel . 
0	belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating . 
1	reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . 
0	the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . 
0	less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . 
1	a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . 
0	this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . 
0	plodding , peevish and gimmicky . 
0	they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . 
0	leaks treacle from every pore . 
0	arguably the year's silliest and most incoherent movie . 
1	the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l . a . beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults . 
0	trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . 
1	holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! 
0	a wildly inconsistent emotional experience . 
0	best described as i know what you did last winter . 
1	made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . 
1	buy popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . 
0	[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . 
0	the master of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , " dead circus performer " funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . 
0	what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . 
1	the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . 
0	the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense . 
1	in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition
1	while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the original . 
1	the entire cast is extraordinarily good . 
0	if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . 
0	insufferably naive . 
0	maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . 
1	passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . 
0	this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . 
0	plays like some corny television production from a bygone era
0	even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . 
1	it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . 
0	the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . 
1	the writing is clever and the cast is appealing . 
0	there's a solid woman- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . 
1	the film is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are . 
0	apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film . 
0	i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . 
0	the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . 
0	 " an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . " 
1	fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . 
1	notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlights . 
0	should have gone straight to video . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . 
0	plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . 
0	martin scorsese cria um espetculo visual que no possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . 
0	a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel . 
0	the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . 
1	it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . 
0	has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . 
0	the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . 
0	manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . 
0	woefully pretentious . 
0	be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . 
1	leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . 
1	a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . 
1	very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . 
1	a wild , endearing , masterful documentary . 
1	george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . 
0	 . . . another example of how sandler is losing his touch . 
1	this new time machine is hardly perfect yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad . 
1	this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . 
1	if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look like something like this . 
1	generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . 
1	triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . 
1	there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . 
1	hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . 
0	hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . 
0	the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . 
1	not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . 
0	makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . 
1	move over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . 
1	munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpected . 
0	[davis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . 
1	straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . 
0	a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . 
1	infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . 
0	the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? 
0	just like the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . 
0	this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . 
1	psychologically revealing . 
1	simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . 
1	a woman's pic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . 
0	the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . 
0	it's got its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awhile . 
1	speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . 
1	[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . 
0	 " i blame all men for war , " [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . 
0	villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . 
0	while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . 
0	i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away' on this screenplay . 
0	terrible . 
0	barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . 
0	 . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise . 
1	it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the trip . 
0	with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . 
0	comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . 
0	a dreadful live-action movie . 
1	a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . 
1	an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . 
0	the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . 
1	it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . 
1	the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati . 
0	the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . 
1	from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . 
1	it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one character , or really sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in different direction . 
1	it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . 
0	did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . 
1	overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy . 
1	the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . 
0	short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . 
1	a simple , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompasses a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascist past . 
0	punitively affirmational parable . 
0	certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . 
0	it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success . 
0	the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . 
1	an exquisitely crafted and acted tale . 
1	there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . 
0	feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum . 
0	i walked away not really know who " they " were , what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly , i didn't care . 
1	a small movie with a big heart . 
1	one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . 
0	not so much farcical as sour . 
0	despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . 
0	the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . 
1	this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '
1	it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . 
0	as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . 
0	its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . 
1	real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . 
0	not even the hanson brothers can save it
0	the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . 
1	denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances
0	involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . 
0	for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . 
0	all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . 
1	sweetly sexy , funny and touching . 
0	the film didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due . 
0	narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . 
1	what makes the movie special is its utter sincerity . 
1	it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . 
1	this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family
1	an intoxicating experience . 
0	the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . '
1	polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . 
1	as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . 
0	we haven't seen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! 
0	what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . 
1	[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . 
1	a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . 
1	evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking . 
0	there's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . 
1	like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . 
1	even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . 
1	a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . 
0	[a] stale retread of the '53 original . 
1	oh , james ! your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! 
0	return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . 
0	despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . 
0	a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . 
1	constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . 
0	it's just plain boring . 
1	a riveting documentary . 
1	its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway . 
0	the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . 
0	entertaining enough , but nothing new
0	the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . 
0	taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . 
0	you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . 
1	while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience . 
1	prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . 
1	strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . 
0	the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture
0	blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . 
0	even as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . 
0	i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . 
0	borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . 
0	feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series . 
1	a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi . 
0	when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . 
1	as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator david presson . 
0	these characters become wearisome . 
0	the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . 
1	es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . simple y sencillamente te sorprender . 
0	the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . 
1	the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases
1	gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . 
0	one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off
1	apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the anim tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . 
1	a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . 
0	the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . 
0	what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . 
1	a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . 
0	even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . 
0	the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . 
0	as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . 
1	bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent . 
0	better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine . 
0	so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . 
1	there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . 
1	ultimately , " mib ii " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mindless . 
0	watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . 
1	it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . 
0	for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words " radical " or " suck " into a sentence . 
0	i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . 
0	when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . 
0	exactly what it claims to be -- a simple diversion for the kids . 
0	murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . 
0	a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts . 
0	seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . 
1	for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . 
1	miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affection . 
1	the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . 
1	we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . 
0	the film is like sitting in a downtown caf , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . 
1	a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . 
0	an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . 
1	how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . 
1	on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . 
1	the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . 
1	 . . . blade ii is more enjoyable than the original . 
0	any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . 
1	highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . 
0	too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous premise . 
1	a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . 
1	daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . 
1	a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . 
0	not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . 
0	no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . 
0	what's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . 
1	'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '
0	mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . 
1	nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . 
1	a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . 
0	has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . 
0	arty gay film . 
0	hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . 
1	not a bad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . 
0	another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie . 
1	 ( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . 
1	a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . 
0	accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . 
1	even though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth . 
1	ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . 
0	the story has little wit and no surprises . 
0	nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here . 
0	the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . 
1	equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . 
1	if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . 
1	arguably the best script that besson has written in years . 
1	if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . 
1	great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . 
1	for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . 
0	outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an integral part of the ride . 
0	very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . 
1	a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . 
1	nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . 
1	the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . 
1	no wonder they're talking about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . 
1	one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . 
1	much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . 
1	the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience riveted . 
1	reassuring , retro uplifter . 
1	pacino is the best he's been in years and keener is marvelous . 
0	it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . 
0	no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars . 
0	it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad cows . 
0	there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subject . 
0	director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . 
1	it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . 
0	none of birthday girl's calculated events take us by surprise . . . 
0	not sweet enough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . 
0	in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy . 
0	the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . 
1	not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . 
0	i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . 
0	bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . 
0	though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . 
0	with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie . 
0	this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . 
1	it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . 
1	yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better . 
1	 . . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) 
0	often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . 
0	a great idea becomes a not-great movie . 
1	griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . 
0	utter mush . . . conceited pap . 
0	the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . 
1	it'll keep you wide awake and . . . very tense . 
0	like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . 
0	 " abandon " will leave you wanting to abandon the theater . 
0	this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better . 
0	with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual broomfield is going to have the courage to knock on that door . 
0	as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . 
0	you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . 
0	not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . 
1	charming and witty , it's also somewhat clumsy . 
0	it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . 
0	a culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is . 
1	writer/ director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . 
1	frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . 
0	sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better films . 
1	although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . 
1	a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . 
1	this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the world . 
1	what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice . 
1	nothing is sacred in this gut-buster . 
0	this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . 
0	as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else . 
1	schrader examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . 
1	the gags are often a stitch . 
0	slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . 
1	steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . 
1	there's no reason to miss interview with the assassin
1	as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . 
1	dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become " the punk kids' revolution . " 
1	a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . 
1	merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . 
0	the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . 
0	an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . 
0	will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . 
1	i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls
0	the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . 
1	woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . 
0	it all drags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . 
0	serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . 
1	a moving and not infrequently breathtaking film . 
0	the film takes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . 
0	an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street activism . 
1	uno de los policiales ms interesantes de los ltimos tiempos . 
0	some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . 
1	 . . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . 
1	while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . 
0	his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level . 
1	the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . 
0	this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . 
0	lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . 
1	the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . 
0	they takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . 
0	it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . 
1	the production design , score and choreography are simply intoxicating . 
0	it's tough to be startled when you're almost dozing . 
1	a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : doug pray's scratch . 
0	nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . 
0	godard's ode to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that's unfocused and tediously exasperating . 
1	funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a city where people still read . " 
1	 . . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a long time . 
1	the far future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . 
1	an amused indictment of jaglom's own profession . 
1	 " spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer , and hopefully , sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan , you can't miss it . if you're not , you'll still have a good time . " 
0	without a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . 
1	intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed . 
0	comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . 
1	takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . 
0	the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . 
1	the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic . 
0	there is nothing redeeming about this movie . 
0	for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . 
1	mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . 
0	makes 98 minutes feel like three hours . 
0	one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . 
0	certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horrible either . 
1	a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life . 
1	thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami . 
0	looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen . 
0	 if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . 
1	red dragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . 
0	this action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . 
0	i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . 
0	one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . 
1	what's so striking about jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . 
0	mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid . 
0	with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . 
0	when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . 
1	for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . 
1	 " 13 conversations about one thing " is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . 
1	it's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . 
0	 . . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . 
1	there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . 
1	it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison . 
1	the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . 
0	a compendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . 
1	as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . 
1	 . . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichs to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . 
1	davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . 
1	rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . 
0	 . . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . 
0	by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . 
1	visually captivating . 
0	'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree . 
1	i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . 
0	what's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . 
0	god help the poor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . 
1	allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . 
1	jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . 
1	she's as rude and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations . 
0	a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potency . 
0	her film is like a beautiful food entre that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . 
0	this thing is virtually unwatchable . 
0	dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy dog longs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . 
1	unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity ofemotional recovery . 
0	has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick . 
1	a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . 
0	mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . 
0	'opening up' the play more has partly closed it down . 
0	bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . 
1	morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . 
0	one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . 
1	the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . 
0	the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . 
1	 . . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . 
1	a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . 
1	the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . 
0	it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . 
1	a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . 
0	busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . 
1	more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quills] did by showing them . 
0	it's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . 
0	vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . 
1	claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . 
1	morvern rocks . 
0	so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . 
1	perhaps the best sports movie i've ever seen . 
1	blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological . 
1	it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . 
0	includes too much obvious padding . 
0	ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '
1	what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey . 
0	this film , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . 
1	there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is time for their first public recital . 
0	 . . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . 
1	a wildly funny prison caper . 
0	self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . 
1	cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . 
1	a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . 
1	in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . 
1	critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps . 
0	it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . 
1	a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . 
1	muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . 
0	has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher stand-up act . 
1	an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . 
1	more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . 
1	rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . 
1	a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every clich of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . 
1	a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . 
1	piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . 
0	less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffle . 
0	 . . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . 
1	a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this . 
1	the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . 
0	i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . 
1	woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . 
1	the film jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . 
1	mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . 
1	the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . 
0	this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . 
1	like the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . 
1	it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . 
1	it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . 
1	tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . 
0	all this turns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dull . 
0	the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . 
0	a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . 
0	what [frei] gives us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . 
1	bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . 
0	77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . 
0	i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . 
0	fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . 
1	executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . 
0	the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad . 
1	unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '
0	forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . 
0	the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . 
0	try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . 
0	scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . 
1	byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . 
0	it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . 
1	in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters  damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . 
0	the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . 
0	[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . 
1	it's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . 
1	fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarded by borstal boy . 
0	this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . 
0	alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . 
1	absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . 
0	the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . 
0	choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . 
0	it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . 
1	works as pretty contagious fun . 
1	the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . 
1	ns gosta muito de as duas torres . 
0	visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . 
0	while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own . 
1	i love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off . 
1	ms sarcstica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . 
1	what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we've shared a great adventure . 
0	there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . 
0	the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . 
1	it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . 
0	friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ? 
1	while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . 
0	the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . 
1	witty , touching and well paced . 
1	it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . 
0	what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . 
0	how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 million on this ? 
1	it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . 
0	some episodes work , some don't . 
1	not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . 
0	it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big screen . 
0	director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . 
1	a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship . 
1	a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . 
1	other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . 
0	[at least] moore is a real charmer . 
0	if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus' son , they'd come up with something like bart freundlich's world traveler . 
1	not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . 
0	the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . 
0	 " my god , i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes , you are , ben kingsley . 
0	the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point . 
1	disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical " bedknobs and broomsticks , " which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . 
0	it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . 
0	for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inside of them . 
1	engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . 
0	stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . 
0	a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . 
1	in its own floundering way , it gets to you . just like igby . 
0	such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production . 
0	'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory . too bad . 
0	a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . 
0	an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories . 
0	vaguely interesting , but it's just too too much . 
0	plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . 
1	michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . 
1	if you want to see a train wreck that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . 
0	with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap . 
0	a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . 
0	it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . 
1	perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . 
1	real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . 
0	ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . 
0	a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . 
1	the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge
1	it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . 
1	the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . 
1	a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . 
0	an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . 
1	to the film's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of reality versus sappy sentiment . 
1	a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . 
0	no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . 
1	perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . 
0	it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . 
0	goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . 
0	it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . 
1	it may not be history  but then again , what if it is ?  but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . 
0	the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . 
1	its director's most substantial feature for some time . 
1	a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . 
1	it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . 
0	the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . 
1	[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . 
1	with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . 
1	branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . 
0	 . . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . 
0	if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . 
1	some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . 
1	daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget . 
1	garca bernal and talancn are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want things to work out . 
0	johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . 
0	trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's brain . 
1	illuminating if overly talky documentary . 
0	femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? 
0	whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title . 
1	you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . 
1	manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . 
0	it's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . 
1	an impeccable study in perversity . 
1	entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! 
0	at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . 
1	for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! 
1	a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . 
0	has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool . 
0	this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . 
0	the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . 
0	unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . 
1	amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . 
0	how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . 
1	insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more . 
0	jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . 
1	a charmer from belgium . 
1	between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . 
0	the pool drowned me in boredom . 
0	earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . 
1	it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . 
1	a flawed but engrossing thriller . 
1	it's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty . 
0	this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . 
0	there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delights . 
0	this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . 
0	 . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynical piece of work . 
1	occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . 
0	you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . 
0	so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . 
1	romantic , riveting and handsomely animated . 
0	a ragbag of cliches . 
1	it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair . 
1	jae-eun jeong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . 
1	jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . 
1	this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . 
0	director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . 
1	a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . 
0	if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half past dead . 
0	despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . 
1	the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . 
1	even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice . 
0	lstima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . 
0	a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . 
1	majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . 
1	not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend . 
0	juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . 
1	a film that will enthrall the whole family . 
1	easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . 
1	so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . 
0	delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . 
0	putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . 
0	maybe it's the star power of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul " full frontal " seems , well , contrived . 
1	so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . 
1	the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space
0	 . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . 
0	schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . . 
0	 . . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor  but it's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . 
0	cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . 
1	ultimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . 
1	the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality . 
0	she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . . 
1	the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . 
1	you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . 
0	a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness . 
1	one can't deny its seriousness and quality . 
0	new best friend shouldn't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . 
0	a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder
1	much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . 
1	while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . 
0	i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . 
1	you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all . 
0	amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the " other side of the story . " 
1	stands as a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9/11 . 
1	has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion . 
1	jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . 
1	the animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . 
1	it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will . 
0	it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . 
0	with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . 
1	the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . 
1	that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . 
1	demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . 
0	the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . 
1	'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . '
0	got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1/2-hour , dissipated length . 
1	satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . 
1	vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . 
0	there's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . 
0	a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama . 
0	what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . 
0	we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . 
1	far from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . 
1	grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . 
0	anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . 
0	a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . 
1	here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . 
0	sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . 
0	only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience . 
1	visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . 
1	ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hackles up . 
1	beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images . 
1	unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . 
0	hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . 
0	it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . 
0	it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . 
0	while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise . 
1	an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . 
0	the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill two hours . 
1	it may not be as cutting , as witty or as true as back in the glory days of weekend and two or three things i know about her , but who else engaged in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and moral issues involved in the process ? 
1	whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . 
0	deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . 
0	sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . 
1	scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . 
1	harmless fun . 
1	the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system . 
1	confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . 
1	a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . 
0	tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , " the sting . " 
0	elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . 
1	the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . 
1	one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . 
1	shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . 
0	tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . 
1	if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . 
1	as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success . 
1	smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . 
0	the chteau would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . 
1	too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . 
0	it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . 
1	leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . 
0	i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . 
1	lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . 
0	though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . 
0	though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . 
1	[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . 
1	one of the greatest films i've ever seen . 
0	writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . 
0	i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy . 
0	the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . 
0	the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . 
1	a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . 
1	transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . 
0	alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . 
0	bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . 
0	it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller's rush . 
0	ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . 
0	'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . 
0	if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . 
0	a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . 
0	even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . 
0	the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise . 
0	nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy . 
1	kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers . 
0	good for a few unintentional laughs , " extreme ops " was obviously made for the " xxx " crowd , people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting , writing , and direction . 
1	happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . 
1	nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . 
0	one thing's for sureif george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . 
1	a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . 
1	if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! 
0	it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . 
0	this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . 
0	in moonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . 
1	stay clear of reminding yourself that it's a " true story " and you're likely to have one helluva time at the movies . 
1	the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . 
0	high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . 
0	follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . 
1	often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . '
0	a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground
1	despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . 
1	with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . 
0	thoroughly awful . 
0	a very depressing movie of many missed opportunities . 
0	don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . 
0	nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . 
1	will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . 
0	the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project . 
1	liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . 
1	very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . 
0	i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the story to actually give them life . 
1	offers a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication . 
1	the most compelling wiseman epic of recent years . 
1	polished , well-structured film . 
0	this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . 
0	the script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . 
0	muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . 
1	talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . 
1	ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . 
1	i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . 
0	meanders between its powerful moments . 
0	the last three narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . 
0	obvious
0	it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 minutes too long . 
1	while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious . 
0	a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . 
0	it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . 
1	gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . 
1	the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . 
1	a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . 
1	a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . 
1	os problemas tm incio a partir do momento em que samos do cinema e comeamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver .  ento que sinais realmente desaponta . 
1	we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lot of life on the reef . 
1	[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . 
1	allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duracin
0	what a pity . . . that the material is so second-rate . 
1	the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . 
1	i have a confession to make : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! 
0	halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . 
1	this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . 
0	behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise ! 
0	there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . 
0	a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . 
1	rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go . 
0	the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . 
1	schtte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . 
0	it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . 
0	who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '
1	less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself . 
1	some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . 
1	land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . 
1	the tenderness of the piece is still intact . 
0	hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . 
0	one lousy movie . 
1	a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . 
0	there's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . 
1	elvira fans could hardly ask for more . 
0	jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company . 
0	apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . 
0	slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? 
0	is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? 
1	the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . 
0	why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ? 
1	though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . 
1	a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events . 
1	pretty darn good , despite its smarty-pants aura . 
1	well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . 
1	the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . 
1	exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . 
1	director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . 
1	a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . 
0	the new faces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . 
1	[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . 
0	at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . 
1	tells a fascinating , compelling story . 
1	ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent years . 
1	ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . 
1	special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . 
1	from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in warm water under a red bridge'
0	oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . 
0	mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . 
1	informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . 
0	wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . 
0	you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's real life is boring . 
0	this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . 
1	effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . 
0	the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors
1	an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . 
0	a whimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . 
0	shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . 
0	an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . 
0	a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . 
1	another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . 
1	a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . 
0	[a] slummer . 
0	a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . 
1	sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . 
1	cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . 
0	[sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions . 
0	the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . 
1	like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . 
1	the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . 
0	essentially " fatal attraction " remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along . . . 
1	maryam is more timely now than ever . 
1	what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . 
1	red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . 
0	on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . 
1	by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . 
0	when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? 
0	one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . 
1	a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . 
1	this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . 
0	by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . 
0	yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence . 
1	 " home movie " is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . 
1	[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . 
0	the result is an 'action film' mired in stasis . 
0	the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . 
1	making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . 
1	though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . 
0	unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . 
0	imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might look like vulgar . 
1	those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . 
0	needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . 
1	cho's fearless in picking apart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . 
1	confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . 
0	 . . . overly melodramatic . . . 
1	will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them . 
0	epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . 
1	it's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . 
1	with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . 
0	every bit as bogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no real point . 
1	you don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . 
1	you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance . 
1	light years/ several warp speeds/ levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equal of some of its predecessors . 
0	a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work . 
0	to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . 
0	it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . 
0	it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . 
0	taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . 
1	alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . 
0	who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . 
0	never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery . 
0	this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . 
0	as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible task of making them jell . 
1	mr . tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor . 
0	the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . 
1	alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . 
0	no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . 
1	 . . . one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages . . . 
1	windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . 
1	mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage . 
1	though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . 
0	everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . 
1	' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '
1	may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . 
0	too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . 
0	in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz . 
1	there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memory . 
0	it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . 
1	makes one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . 
1	flavorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . 
0	it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . 
0	a noble failure . 
1	dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . 
0	it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . 
0	swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . 
1	it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . 
0	this one is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . 
0	if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . 
0	everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view . 
1	maneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . 
1	in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . 
0	the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . 
1	it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . '
0	there aren't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . 
0	the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots . 
0	one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history . 
0	the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . 
1	assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . 
1	not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . 
1	a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . 
0	bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . 
0	for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . 
0	unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . 
0	an overstylized , pured mlange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . 
1	the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . 
0	[u]nrelentingly stupid . 
0	though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . 
0	it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . 
1	the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . 
0	this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . 
0	so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises
0	had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . 
1	a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . 
0	the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . 
1	 . . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind . 
0	another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . 
1	by turns very dark and very funny . 
1	kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . 
0	instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once ? 
0	the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not really . 
1	there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . . 
1	the most consistently funny of the austin powers films . 
0	too much of the humor falls flat . 
0	 . . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry . 
1	this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . 
1	what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . 
0	an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . 
0	might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . 
0	if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . 
1	proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . 
0	anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . 
1	never once predictable . 
0	the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . 
0	steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . 
0	a less-than-thrilling thriller . 
0	the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . 
1	as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . 
1	aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . 
1	highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up . 
0	the plan to make enough into an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a souffl gone wrong . 
0	zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . 
0	even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . 
1	a glorious mess . 
0	like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . 
0	cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time . 
0	what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? 
1	a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . 
0	if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . 
0	upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . 
0	a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . 
0	some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . 
1	daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
1	those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . 
0	disturbingly superficial in its approach to the material . 
1	 . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . 
0	for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . 
1	whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . 
0	the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . 
0	the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . 
1	proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . 
1	the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . 
0	outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . 
1	this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . 
1	a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . 
0	it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . 
0	there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flattering . 
0	kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . 
0	maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back . 
0	meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . 
1	sum " is jack ryan's " do-over . " give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . 
0	mr . wollter and ms . seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . 
0	one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . 
1	though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . 
0	this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . 
1	nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . 
1	it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . 
1	at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . 
1	i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memory . 
0	a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . 
0	off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . 
0	i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . 
1	as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . 
0	the problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . 
1	10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . 
1	in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . 
0	if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . 
1	the acting alone is worth the price of admission . 
0	too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . 
1	a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . 
0	does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? 
1	you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . 
0	this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work . 
1	you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . 
0	the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . 
0	90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . 
1	it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . 
0	the chocolate factory without charlie . 
0	solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . 
1	well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . 
1	in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . 
1	dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . 
0	they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book . 
1	tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable . 
0	the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . 
1	fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . 
1	grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . 
0	too clever by about nine-tenths . 
1	it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look . 
0	if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . 
1	lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . 
0	show me the mugging . 
0	an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . 
0	those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . 
0	the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . 
0	feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . 
0	the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . 
0	the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes . the problem is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . 
1	whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on " the other " and " the self , " derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . 
0	yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents . 
0	the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . 
1	francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . 
0	an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . 
0	a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . 
1	remarkable for its intelligence and intensity . 
1	 uma pena que , mais tarde , o prprio filme abandone o tom de pardia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichs que havia satirizado . 
1	ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . 
0	the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . 
0	if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . 
0	 " sorority boys " was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad . 
0	displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver
1	though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . 
0	drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . 
1	the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . 
1	if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticket right here . 
1	a film of delicate interpersonal dances . caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . 
0	you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie . 
1	the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich . 
0	the film is flat . 
0	this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . 
1	whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . 
1	to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . 
0	this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . 
1	with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . 
0	an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . 
0	by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please ! 
0	snipes is both a snore and utter tripe . 
0	murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . 
1	bouquet gives a performance that is masterly . 
0	put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . 
1	all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . 
1	it is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters . 
0	these are textbook lives of quiet desperation . 
0	when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . 
1	kudos to the most enchanting film of the year . 
0	writer/director john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but , when he veers into sodden melodrama , punctuated by violins , it's disastrous and kate's jealous female friends become downright despicable . 
0	too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . 
0	there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . 
0	eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . 
1	the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . 
1	 ( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . 
0	a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . 
0	it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say . 
0	although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . 
1	the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man . 
0	the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . 
1	both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . 
0	the movie is obviously a labour of love so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . 
0	es triste tener que decirles que lo nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . 
1	it's hard to imagine alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . 
0	succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . 
1	definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with . '
1	like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . 
0	splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings . 
1	it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . 
1	 " nicholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . 
1	it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . 
1	call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . 
1	while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . 
0	tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . 
0	we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . 
1	while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . 
1	you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject . 
0	 . . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . 
1	the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new " conan " and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger , jean-claud van damme or steven segal . 
1	not a bad journey at all . 
0	most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave . 
0	too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . 
0	the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't much fun without the highs and lows . 
1	 . . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun . 
0	the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . 
1	 . . . once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . 
0	for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . 
1	the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and openness . 
1	it's never dull and always looks good . 
0	i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story . 
0	it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . 
1	it never fails to engage us . 
0	a mostly tired retread of several other mob tales . 
0	finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . 
1	a worthy entry into a very difficult genre . 
1	sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramticos para arrancar lgrimas do espectador , o pianista  um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . 
1	the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him . 
1	contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memria . 
1	in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . 
1	it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes . 
0	the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . 
1	it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . 
1	i loved the look of this film . 
0	it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . 
0	a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . 
0	little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable . 
1	fans of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . 
1	measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . 
1	the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . 
0	there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? 
0	weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . 
0	despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . 
1	offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . 
1	a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing film . 
1	its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . 
1	a great companion piece to other napoleon films . 
1	for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . 
1	a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . 
1	unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . 
1	this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! 
0	no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . 
0	although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . 
0	klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . 
0	it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . 
1	a chilling movie without oppressive gore . 
0	handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked souffl . 
0	wishy-washy . 
1	the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough . 
0	it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . 
1	by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . 
1	gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . 
0	like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on
1	we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed . 
0	a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly piece . 
1	hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . 
0	kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . 
0	in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . 
0	big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . 
1	if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . 
1	for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . 
1	if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care . 
0	showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again . 
1	it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . 
1	director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading . 
1	 . . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see . 
0	possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . 
1	the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . 
0	a decidedly mixed bag . 
1	a subtle , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . 
1	binoche and magimel are perfect in these roles . 
0	the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . 
0	forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . 
1	it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . 
0	once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . 
1	devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . 
0	a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . 
1	the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . 
0	this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '
1	with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . 
1	an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . 
0	granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . 
1	thanks to haynes' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . 
1	secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . 
1	director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . 
0	while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . 
0	a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . 
0	my reaction in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . 
1	it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . 
1	occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new . 
0	the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . 
0	there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew . 
0	an uninspired preachy and clichd war film . 
0	 sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . 
1	a comic gem with some serious sparkles . 
0	calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . 
1	will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . 
1	escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . 
0	under-rehearsed and lifeless
0	thin period piece . 
1	directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . 
0	 . . . familiar and predictable , and 4/5ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . 
1	secretary " is owned by its costars , spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . 
0	so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . 
1	a good piece of work more often than not . 
1	rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust . 
0	a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . 
1	the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . 
1	the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . 
1	 . . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . 
1	bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . 
0	doesn't add up to much . 
1	has a solid emotional impact . 
0	slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . 
1	like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock . 
0	what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . 
1	this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . 
1	left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . 
0	this is nothing but familiar territory . 
0	the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . 
0	comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , " crossroads " instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . 
0	nelson's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . 
1	' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little ones get a fuzzy treat . '
0	comes across as a fairly weak retooling . 
0	weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . 
1	a thought-provoking picture . 
1	if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . 
1	works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . 
1	more good than great but freeman and judd make it work . 
0	will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . 
1	maguire is a surprisingly effective peter/spider-man . 
0	it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forward to the russos' next offering . 
1	with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintar's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . 
0	quick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? 
1	part of the film's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . 
0	it's a deeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . 
0	the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . 
1	the film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them . 
1	a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . 
1	time out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term . 
0	the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit . 
0	a bit too eager to please . 
1	opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . 
1	showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . 
0	the movie is a mess from start to finish . 
1	steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . 
0	[i]t's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . 
0	aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . 
1	fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten
1	tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . 
1	as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . 
1	cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered " shut up " to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . 
0	the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . 
1	lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . 
1	often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . 
1	one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . 
1	the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . 
0	'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '
1	i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . 
1	i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . 
1	it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . 
1	both deeply weird and charmingly dear . 
1	macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . 
1	it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . 
0	in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . 
0	it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . 
0	frenetic but not really funny . 
1	old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . 
0	as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . 
0	i can't remember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problemit's supposed to be a drama . 
1	a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners . 
1	a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . 
1	its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace past tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . 
1	the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . 
1	the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . 
0	no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . 
0	a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . 
1	sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . 
1	it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfolds . 
1	it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . 
1	a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . 
0	the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense . 
1	a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . 
1	nervy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . 
0	it's one long bore . 
0	a incompetncia de marcus adams como roteirista s  superada por sua pssima direo . 
1	as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . 
1	cho's timing is priceless . 
0	there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . 
1	in other words , it's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it's robert duvall ! c'mon ! 
1	[haynes'] homage to such films as " all that heaven allows " and " imitation of life " transcends them . simply put , " far from heaven " is a masterpiece . 
1	about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . 
1	in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . 
0	with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . 
1	it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . 
1	if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . 
1	it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death . 
0	for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . 
1	a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . 
0	nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . 
0	a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . 
0	wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '
0	louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . 
1	though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . 
0	pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . 
0	a direct-to-void release , heading nowhere . 
0	[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen . 
0	just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . 
0	portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . 
0	plays like john le carr with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . 
1	with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . 
0	audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . 
0	the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new york ) . 
0	the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . 
0	where the film falters is in its tone . 
0	it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time . 
0	you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . 
1	the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . 
1	a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film history . 
1	two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . 
0	empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . 
1	a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . 
0	one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . 
0	the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . 
0	an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . 
1	these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . 
0	the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . 
1	a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . 
1	seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work . 
0	on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . 
0	at the bottom rung of the series' entries . 
1	the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . 
1	if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start . 
0	it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't . 
0	what's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . 
0	those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . 
1	jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . 
1	a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans . 
1	if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . 
0	meandering and glacially paced , and often just plain dull . 
0	horrible
0	perry's good and his is an interesting character , but " serving sara " hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy . 
0	even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . 
0	starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . 
1	a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . 
0	winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . 
1	some movies blend together as they become distant memories . mention " solaris " five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . 
1	a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . 
0	attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . 
1	the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . 
1	you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies . 
0	a strong first quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . 
0	i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . 
0	a frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick , contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , small and decadent for the malls . 
1	worth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . 
0	done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment . 
0	william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . . 
1	its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . 
0	it's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition . 
1	a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . 
1	while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . 
0	a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full price . 
1	it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . 
1	i liked a lot of the smaller scenes . 
1	for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . 
0	nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . 
1	gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . 
0	 . . . bibbidy-bobbidi-bland . 
1	it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . 
0	when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . '
1	the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . 
0	nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay . 
1	scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . 
0	to portray modern women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . 
0	[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . 
0	what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? 
0	looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . 
1	moonlight mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . 
1	to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichs , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking . 
1	it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . 
0	there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . 
1	a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . 
0	'pocas ideas interesantes , un final pseudo mstico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensacin de inconformidad que hace pensar ms de una vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precio del boleto . '
1	heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's moral ascension . 
0	eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . 
1	this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . 
0	what's next : " my mother the car ? " 
0	yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '
1	a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . 
1	much monkeyfun for all . 
0	the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . 
0	the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours . 
0	we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . 
1	with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . 
0	the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . 
1	if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure . 
0	parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . 
1	the kind of nervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . 
1	those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . 
1	a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence . 
0	ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there ain't none , you have a problem . 
1	sly , sophisticated and surprising . 
1	an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . 
0	the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name . 
1	the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . 
0	after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . 
1	chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . 
0	almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . 
1	a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . 
0	not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow . 
0	the sequel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready . 
1	examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as wiseman's previous studies of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers . 
1	charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity . 
0	costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . 
0	flaunts its quirky excesses like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . 
0	harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likely think of this one . 
0	the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . 
1	remember the kind of movie we were hoping " ecks vs . sever " or " xxx " was going to be ? this is it . 
1	you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . 
0	a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . 
1	on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . 
0	with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller " new best friend " , who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . 
1	for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . 
1	an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . 
1	beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . 
1	this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . 
0	as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . 
0	set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york . 
0	the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . 
1	marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . 
0	a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . 
0	apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . 
0	creepy but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . 
1	williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . 
1	like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . 
1	connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . 
1	becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . 
1	it's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . 
1	longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . 
1	a well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . 
1	red dragon " never cuts corners . 
0	the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modern day . 
0	the project's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . 
0	 . . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . 
1	with dickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . 
1	argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . 
0	a film that suffers because of its many excesses . 
1	an awfully good , achingly human picture . 
1	an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work . 
1	the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . 
1	the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . 
1	some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust . 
0	lawrence preaches strictly to the converted . 
1	the film is full of charm . 
1	there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . 
0	it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one . 
1	the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . 
1	melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . 
0	comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible . 
0	despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . 
0	with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . 
1	once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and action/effects on the spectacular scale . 
0	at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . 
1	an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances
1	one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . 
0	not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . 
0	the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . 
1	a slight but sweet film . 
1	tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard . 
1	manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . 
0	just a bloody mess . 
1	as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . 
1	what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . 
1	it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . 
1	it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . 
1	my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . 
0	a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . 
0	an inconsequential , barely there bit of piffle . 
1	to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . 
0	a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . 
1	i walked away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . 
0	most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most . 
0	[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . 
0	since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . 
0	those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . 
1	like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . 
1	ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city . 
0	[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . 
0	one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this way . 
1	what time is it there ? is not easy . it haunts you , you can't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it . 
0	too long , and larded with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . 
1	it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration . 
0	the problem isn't that the movie hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . 
1	often hilarious . 
1	it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . 
1	watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power . 
1	like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie despite its mainland setting . 
1	the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . 
1	ray liotta and jason patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody deserves any prizes here . 
0	offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . 
0	'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . 
1	dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver . 
0	hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . 
0	the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . 
0	a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . 
1	it thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice/venice . 
1	whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . 
0	a little weak -- and it isn't that funny . 
1	it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . 
0	every joke is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? 
0	hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . 
0	the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . 
0	with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . 
0	even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . 
1	the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . 
1	one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . 
0	i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . 
0	worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . 
1	could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ? 
1	unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . 
0	it's just rather leaden and dull . 
0	the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank . 
1	kinnear gives a tremendous performance . 
1	allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . 
0	simplistic , silly and tedious . 
1	[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . 
0	it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . 
0	this director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . 
0	in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . 
0	a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . 
0	lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . 
1	the first half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . 
1	the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . 
0	it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . 
0	interesting , but not compelling . 
1	fun and nimble . 
1	an artful , intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . 
1	without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . 
1	just how these families interact may surprise you . 
1	if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . 
0	a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . 
1	thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . 
0	they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans . 
0	schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . 
1	nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . 
1	makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . 
0	gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . 
0	a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . 
0	the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . 
1	despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams " bathroom break ! " 
0	a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . 
0	a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller . 
1	top-notch action powers this romantic drama . 
1	the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor
0	the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . 
1	 . . . the first 2/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor . . . 
1	mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . 
1	manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . 
0	according to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . 
1	while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . 
1	all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . 
0	it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man clich atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo's] best work . 
0	directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name
0	will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? 
1	much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . 
1	this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . 
0	stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . 
1	trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . 
1	spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . 
1	whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . 
0	what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety . 
0	this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . 
0	was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's next . . . ghost blimp ? 
0	an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . 
1	as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . 
1	the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aesop
0	though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and clich . 
1	for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . 
1	gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . 
1	this in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . 
0	attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . 
1	see it . debate it . remember it . 
0	the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . 
0	you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . 
1	sex is one of those films that aims to confuse . 
1	its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . 
0	more intellectually scary than dramatically involving . 
1	it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance
0	shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . 
1	a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . 
0	dilbert without the right-on satiric humor . 
1	about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . 
1	about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . 
0	a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . 
1	campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . 
1	this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . 
0	never does " lilo & stitch " reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . " 
1	elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . 
1	while bollywood/hollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals , it also has plenty for those ( like me ) who aren't . 
0	instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . 
0	life is a crock -- or something like it . 
0	it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . 
0	 it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . 
0	the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . 
0	 . . . although this idea is " new " the results are tired . 
1	by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . 
1	a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing
1	an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . 
0	it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . 
1	thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . 
1	because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somehow never seen before . 
0	the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . 
1	it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . 
0	sayles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old story . 
0	it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . 
1	the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . 
1	fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing something purer than the real thing . 
0	just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . 
1	time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets
1	all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . 
1	over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . 
0	paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . 
0	these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . 
1	what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . 
0	even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . 
0	 . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . 
1	it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . 
0	the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . 
1	adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . 
0	no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . 
1	a delightful coming-of-age story . 
1	a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . 
1	a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . 
0	the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . 
1	an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . 
1	 . . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . 
1	the french are rather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . 
0	the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiences from ever wanting to see another foreign film . 
1	there's plenty to impress about e . t . 
0	in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . 
0	it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . 
0	it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . 
1	don't expect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . 
1	engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . 
1	if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . 
0	if the movie were all comedy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness . 
1	even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . 
0	a tv episode inflated past its natural length . 
1	the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effects . 
1	a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . 
1	ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existncia de papai noel era um fato inquestionvel . 
0	just a kiss is a just a waste . 
1	sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . 
0	a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . 
1	a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disney . 
0	eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good . 
0	seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . 
0	this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . 
0	a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . 
0	drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . 
1	hilarious , acidic brit comedy . 
1	the values that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure . 
0	aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . 
0	viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . 
1	steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . 
0	the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . 
1	it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . 
1	reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidotes . 
1	although occasionally static to the point of resembling a stage play , the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs . 
0	muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . 
1	[a] wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting . 
1	although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tale . 
1	it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers . 
0	hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . 
1	a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . 
1	a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . 
0	the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . 
1	contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii
1	the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . 
0	the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . 
0	payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . 
0	sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . 
1	evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . 
0	and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! 
1	the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . 
1	in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . 
0	director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . 
1	the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . 
0	despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . 
1	as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . 
1	this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . 
0	the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . 
1	it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart . 
1	it trusts the story it sets out to tell . 
1	does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . 
1	simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances . 
0	the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises . 
1	huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack . 
1	the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movies . 
0	'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . '
1	flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . 
1	a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . 
1	a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . 
0	the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . 
0	a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . 
0	the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . 
1	noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . 
0	what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? 
1	i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . 
1	a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . 
1	'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '
0	a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . 
0	 . . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught . 
1	probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . 
0	a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . 
1	frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . 
0	none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . 
1	while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . 
0	it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . 
1	 . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observacin de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . 
0	the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . 
1	the people in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're never sure how things will work out . 
1	it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . 
0	while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy . 
0	no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . 
1	ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . 
0	what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . 
0	an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . 
0	cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . 
1	his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . 
1	russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . 
0	a puzzling experience . 
1	day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs . 
0	far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . 
1	these are lives worth watching , paths worth following . 
1	 " . . . something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . " 
1	you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . 
1	the bottom line is the piece works brilliantly . 
1	if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makers' ) credit that we believe that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . 
1	veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . 
0	what you would end up with if you took orwell , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . 
0	partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . 
0	confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . 
0	there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid
1	humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . 
1	it's immensely ambitious , different than anything that's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do . 
0	schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . 
0	the lower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . 
0	it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . 
0	a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . 
0	only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . 
0	there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . 
1	in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest . 
1	scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . 
0	shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . 
1	decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . 
1	beautifully produced . 
1	it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . 
1	[a] rare , beautiful film . 
0	it treats women like idiots . 
1	a beautiful , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . 
0	the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . 
0	is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? 
0	the work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . 
0	rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . 
0	a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . 
1	finely crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed
0	[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . 
1	 " punch-drunk love " is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . . 
1	an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . 
1	standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . 
1	the tone is balanced , reflective and reasonable . 
1	a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . 
0	earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . 
0	this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . 
0	can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . 
0	a complete waste of time . 
0	pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . 
0	a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . 
1	the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . 
0	equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid . 
1	at times the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion picture ; it's an utterly static picture . 
0	a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . 
1	it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . 
1	an excellent romp that boasts both a heart and a mind . 
0	the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . 
1	if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . 
1	a tone poem of transgression . 
0	goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . 
0	 . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . 
0	a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . 
1	if you are an actor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage , then esther's story is a compelling quest for truth . 
1	vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . 
0	pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrams , in their feature debut . 
1	a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage " be careful what you wish for " is given a full workout . 
0	i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents . . . 
0	a negligible british comedy . 
1	watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . 
1	it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . 
0	remember when bond had more glamour than clamor ? no more . 
1	strange and beautiful film . 
1	like the best 60 minutes expos , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . 
0	feels familiar and tired . 
0	it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movieif only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . 
0	the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . 
1	berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making " die another day " one of the most entertaining bonds in years
1	the film delivers what it promises : a look at the " wild ride " that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans . 
1	you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . 
0	the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . 
0	a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . 
1	one of the greatest romantic comedies of the past decade . 
1	 . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . 
1	there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . 
0	cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . 
1	not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort . 
1	this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . 
0	now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . 
1	smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wise . 
1	a joyous occasion
1	mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . 
1	leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . 
1	the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . 
1	the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . 
1	some movies suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast . 
0	all mood and no movie . 
0	shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story . 
1	a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . 
1	it's a masterpiece . 
1	there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . 
1	asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . 
0	 . . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . 
1	richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez . 
0	rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment . 
0	first-time director joo pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . 
0	an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow . 
0	 . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this " un-bear-able " project ! 
0	has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . 
1	 . . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . 
0	the film can depress you about life itself . 
1	as a revenge thriller , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . 
0	perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . 
1	colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . 
0	just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . 
1	a worthwhile way to spend two hours . 
1	if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . 
0	leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . 
0	strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . 
1	manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . 
1	add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director . 
1	it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . 
0	de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subject matter . 
1	the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . 
1	by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . 
1	wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . 
0	you're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous . 
0	not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . 
0	with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . 
0	the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . 
0	[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . 
0	so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . 
0	not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . 
1	the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . 
0	cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . 
0	more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine
1	most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . 
0	a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . 
0	the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece ! 
1	there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . 
0	wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . 
0	about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . 
1	sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . 
0	`martin lawrence live' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . 
0	below is well below expectations . 
1	 . . . " bowling for columbine " remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . 
0	the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . 
1	hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . 
1	the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . 
1	sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . 
1	smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . 
0	a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . 
1	at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . 
1	not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . 
1	a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it
1	one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . 
0	a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . 
1	the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . 
0	all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . 
1	will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . 
1	try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . 
0	with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . 
0	rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next . 
0	if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . 
0	even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . 
1	about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come . 
1	those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to know . 
0	it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . 
0	sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . 
1	sleek and arty . 
1	it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywood . 
1	'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias romnticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '
0	it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death
0	i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits
0	guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . 
0	like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . 
1	one fantastic ( and educational ) documentary . 
1	the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . 
0	sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . 
0	absurdities and clichs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . 
0	eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . 
0	jolie's performance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips . 
1	this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . 
1	it's a treat  a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . 
1	an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . 
1	even if you don't understand what on earth is going on , this is a movie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . 
0	like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . 
0	the script's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . 
0	so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . 
1	lead actress ga , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . 
0	it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time . 
0	the star who helped give a spark to " chasing amy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , " the sum of all fears . " 
1	blanchett's performance confirms her power once again . 
1	this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . 
0	[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . 
1	in my opinion , analyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel . 
1	it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . 
1	as comedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . 
0	star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . 
1	i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . 
0	suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . 
0	human nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreal . 
0	this film biggest problem ? no laughs . 
0	despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . 
1	one of the best movies of the year . 
0	viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout . 
0	the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . 
1	beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . 
0	kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . 
0	a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . 
0	so clichd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart . 
0	like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . 
1	audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . 
1	classic cinema served up with heart and humor
1	a movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be . 
0	wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . 
0	in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larger point , and little social context . 
1	for the most part , the film does hold up pretty well . 
1	the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . 
0	hollywood ending just isn't very funny . 
0	after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . 
0	it's not a bad premise , just a bad movie . 
0	one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . 
0	[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . 
0	swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . 
1	no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . 
0	the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . 
0	philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . 
1	a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its source material . 
1	majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident . 
1	fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . 
1	somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . 
0	there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . never quite settles on either side . 
0	the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . 
0	that the chuck norris " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . 
0	blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . 
0	it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . 
1	by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit . 
1	this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . 
0	i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . 
1	perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . 
0	such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us " the skulls " and last year's " rollerball . " enough said , except : film overboard ! 
1	newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . 
0	its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . 
1	it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon . 
1	martyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more . 
1	 ( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . 
0	most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . 
1	an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . 
1	ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . 
1	a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . 
1	this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . 
1	brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women's depression . 
0	nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . 
1	a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone . 
0	long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame . 
0	has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favors to their famous parents . 
0	you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . 
0	it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal . 
0	yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? 
1	not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idolized culture , self-loathing and sexual politics . 
0	part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . 
0	a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . 
1	passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . 
0	a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . 
0	'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . '
0	overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue
1	like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . 
1	 . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . 
1	captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . 
1	a genuine mind-bender . 
1	while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story . 
0	it's mildly amusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . 
0	the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . 
1	the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism
0	this is the first film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . 
0	the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . 
1	the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . 
1	made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . 
0	no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money . 
0	director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? 
0	obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque . 
0	hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . 
1	scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . 
0	philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . 
0	an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . 
1	the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . 
1	returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . 
1	an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . 
1	the movie isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here . 
0	an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . 
0	don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . 
0	 " roger michell ( " notting hill " ) directs a morality thriller . " 
1	there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . 
1	try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . 
1	the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . 
1	canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . 
0	the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did . 
0	eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . 
1	the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . 
1	by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so . 
1	it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . 
0	the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't remember a single name responsible for it . 
0	the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . 
0	behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . 
1	it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today . 
0	the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute . 
1	in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . 
0	it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . 
1	the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . 
1	you just know something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . 
0	there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . 
1	boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . 
1	if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . 
0	the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . 
1	an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . 
0	a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . 
0	new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . 
1	short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . 
0	i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap clich . 
0	they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . 
0	a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . 
1	an original gem about an obsession with time . 
0	a preposterous , prurient whodunit . 
1	a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration . 
0	many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . 
1	jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . 
1	the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . 
0	the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material . 
1	a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . 
1	[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . 
0	a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . 
1	enticing and often funny documentary . 
1	a smart , arch and rather cold-blooded comedy . 
1	feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . 
1	manages to be original , even though it rips off many of its ideas . 
1	a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . 
1	although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . 
0	high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ marine/legal mystery , and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff , nearly subliminally , as the old-hat province of male intrigue . 
1	i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . 
0	i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot . 
1	 " on guard ! " won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors , daniel auteuil , have a whale of a good time . 
0	the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . 
1	inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring partners . 
1	jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . 
0	wallace seems less like he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together
1	a smart little indie . 
0	la de salma es una versin de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningn contenido . 
0	for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale . 
1	if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun . 
1	if a big musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . 
1	a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . 
1	the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . 
1	a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . 
1	it's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . 
0	 . . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . 
1	a quiet , pure , elliptical film
1	the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . 
1	a very charming and funny movie . 
0	chai's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . 
0	this is a film living far too much in its own head . 
1	the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . 
0	i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . 
0	ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . 
0	a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . 
1	 . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable . 
0	your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . 
1	she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . 
0	bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . 
0	if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them mate . 
0	pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or two . 
0	formulaic to the 51st power , more like . 
0	exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair . 
1	a comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life . 
1	a creaky staircase gothic . 
0	a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . 
1	ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . 
0	morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot either . 
1	writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . 
0	it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . 
0	the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . 
1	this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . 
0	some fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . 
0	as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . 
1	an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . 
0	woody , what happened ? 
1	arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation . 
1	the talents of the actors helps " moonlight mile " rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . 
0	there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . 
1	really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . 
1	by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better . 
1	the pianist is the film roman polanski may have been born to make . 
1	there is greatness here . 
1	at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . 
0	smothered by its own solemnity . 
1	a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . 
1	a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . 
0	despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . 
1	even if you've seen " stomp " ( the stage show ) , you still have to see this ! 
1	as an introduction to the man's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . 
1	successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . 
0	a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . 
1	touch ! 
0	the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . 
0	yet another genre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . 
0	'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck . 
0	the film's essentially over by the meet-cute . 
1	a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piece of character-driven storytelling . 
1	a visual spectacle full of stunning images and effects . 
0	if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . 
1	bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . 
0	the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . 
0	the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . 
0	if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure , one of those movies that's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't . 
0	adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
0	the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . 
0	cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them . 
0	it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . 
1	an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . 
0	just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else . 
1	an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection . 
0	without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . 
0	i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . 
0	a high-minded snoozer . 
1	the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer . 
1	there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100 . 
1	captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . 
1	visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . 
0	simplistic fluff-ball of whimsy . 
0	while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . 
1	an impressive hybrid . 
1	having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . 
0	begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . 
0	you can practically hear george orwell turning over . 
0	our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender  and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . '
0	whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . 
1	this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked . 
0	while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . 
1	collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . 
1	an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural clash . 
0	the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . 
1	alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . 
1	the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any " jackass " fan could want . 
0	lacks depth . 
1	westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . 
1	for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applauded . 
1	a stylish thriller . 
0	there is so much plodding sensitivity . 
0	two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . 
0	only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for . 
1	certainly the performances are worthwhile . 
1	the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . 
1	it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . 
1	a model of what films like this should be like . 
1	oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptation . 
0	[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . 
0	as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . 
0	if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . 
0	the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . 
1	the film benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . 
0	it's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen . 
1	i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe . 
0	 . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . 
0	`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . 
1	jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . 
1	[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . 
1	a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom  handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . 
0	bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description . 
0	it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! 
1	a movie that at its best doesn't just make the most out of its characters' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . 
1	britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . 
0	a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . 
0	the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . 
1	may not have generated many sparks , but with his affection for astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow . 
0	charming , if overly complicated . . . 
0	it's everything you don't go to the movies for . 
0	the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . 
1	a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness . 
0	what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . 
0	mckay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness
1	stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . 
0	i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . 
0	jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . 
0	strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturing . 
1	it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . 
0	a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't save . 
0	in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space . 
0	wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! 
1	this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit . 
0	take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . 
0	unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . 
0	did we really need a remake of " charade ? " 
0	a film with a great premise but only a great premise . 
0	almost gags on its own gore . 
0	the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants . . . who might be distracted by the movie's quick movements and sounds . 
0	a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . 
0	one of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . 
1	i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . 
0	this slow-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . 
0	by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . 
0	everyone's to blame here . 
1	by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent love story . 
0	in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a rsum loaded with credits like " girl in bar #3 . " 
1	i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes . 
1	the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . 
0	without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . 
0	[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent . 
1	the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots . 
0	 . . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . 
1	a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . 
0	soul is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . 
0	there's not enough to sustain the comedy . 
1	romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . 
1	gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . 
0	the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . 
1	 " the quiet american " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . 
1	audrey tatou has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amlie . 
0	 . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . 
0	it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . 
1	while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . 
0	decent but dull . 
1	it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it's brilliant . 
0	when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . 
1	its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work . 
0	the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable navet and arbitrary flashbacks . 
0	nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . 
0	a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore . 
0	oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . 
1	in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . 
0	all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . 
1	a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . 
1	like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . 
1	jones . . . does offer a brutal form of charisma . 
1	a smart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . 
1	the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . 
1	murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . 
1	a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect . 
0	everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . 
1	a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . 
1	a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . 
1	it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . 
0	each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception . 
0	one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . 
0	the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york . 
0	i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . 
0	less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . 
1	an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . 
1	 . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . 
0	 . . . would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . 
0	a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '
1	although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . 
0	i'm just too bored to care . 
0	 " not really as bad as you might think ! " 
1	much as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . 
1	we want the funk - and this movie's got it . 
0	abysmally pathetic
0	even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . 
1	an unflinching look at the world's dispossessed . 
1	those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the time . 
1	hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation . 
1	' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . '
0	a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . 
1	boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . 
1	as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a movie you can trust . 
1	whether kiss is a future cult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion . 
1	 . . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . 
1	a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'm the one that i want . 
1	it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . 
1	ou've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . 
0	even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . 
0	some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations . 
1	a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession  one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . 
1	features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . 
0	bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . 
1	there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . 
1	it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart
0	the title , alone , should scare any sane person away . 
0	this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . 
0	is it a comedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? 
1	an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . 
0	excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . 
0	unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . 
1	the scorpion king is more fun than conan the barbarian . 
0	too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility . 
1	[cuarn has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . 
0	just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . 
0	the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . 
0	it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than " confessions of a dangerous mind . " 
0	stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . 
0	the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . 
0	demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better material . 
1	a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . 
0	an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . 
0	it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . 
1	astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . 
1	though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . 
1	some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options . 
1	while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . 
0	it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn . 
0	better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . 
1	it shows us a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . 
1	cold , nervy and memorable . 
1	long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might mean . 
0	while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . 
1	cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . 
1	sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not
1	[breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . 
0	the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . 
1	what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the point is
1	mnch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . 
0	filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . 
1	amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! 
0	roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . 
1	as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . 
1	director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . and there's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . 
0	rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . 
0	the problem with all of this : it's not really funny . 
0	a disaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants . 
0	the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utter lack of tension . 
0	the movie just has too much on its plate to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute running time . 
0	confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . 
1	full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . 
1	like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . 
0	like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . 
1	the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . 
1	exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . 
0	there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about . 
1	this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . 
1	while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current . 
1	a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . 
1	andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . 
0	the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . 
1	you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . 
1	a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . 
0	a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . 
1	an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . 
1	the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . 
0	the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . 
0	impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast . 
1	no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . 
0	at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . 
1	a classy , sprightly spin on film . 
1	using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . 
0	ecks this one off your must-see list . 
1	resourceful and ingenious entertainment . 
0	the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory . 
1	caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely . 
1	a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . 
1	it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . 
0	pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flick . 
0	less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . 
0	like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . 
0	the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much drama . 
1	just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . 
0	more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . 
0	not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " . 
1	the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unapologetically dumb
1	malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . 
1	the wild thornberrys movie is a jolly surprise . 
0	trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . 
1	the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . 
0	just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . 
1	stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . 
1	the formula is familiar but enjoyable . 
1	some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . 
1	moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . 
0	so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . 
0	amazingly dopey . 
0	irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . 
1	there's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance . 
1	a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . 
1	it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . 
1	a well-executed spy-thriller . 
0	there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . 
0	may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . 
0	every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . 
0	another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . 
1	an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . 
0	some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . 
0	plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . 
1	mr . spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . 
1	the imax screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . 
1	it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one . 
0	meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the- making . 
1	windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . 
1	a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . 
0	it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . 
0	a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . 
0	barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time
1	what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ? 
0	obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . 
1	'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '
0	once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . 
1	claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications . 
0	maudlin and melodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . 
0	her fans walked out muttering words like " horrible " and " terrible , " but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . 
1	the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . 
1	an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . 
0	a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . 
0	a feeble tootsie knockoff . 
0	the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's characters . 
1	a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities . 
0	the worst film of the year . 
0	has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . 
1	the cast is phenomenal , especially the women . 
1	for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . 
1	it's the type of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . 
1	whether or not you buy mr . broomfield's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr . broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover . 
1	a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory . 
1	vera's three actors -- moll , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . 
1	norton holds the film together . 
1	there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . 
0	although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful . 
0	the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . 
1	beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . 
1	not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . 
1	though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . 
1	a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . 
1	as a film director , labute continues to improve . 
1	i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . 
0	its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing . 
0	the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . 
0	a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . 
1	made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . 
0	a well-crafted letdown . 
0	to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . 
0	it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another . 
1	an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart . 
0	seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . 
1	offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . 
1	an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . 
1	by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every bit as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . 
0	there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . 
0	the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . 
0	john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . 
1	puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . 
0	that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . 
0	aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . 
0	a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . 
1	a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie . 
1	delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . 
1	 " the best disney movie since the lion king " 
0	with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 . 
1	schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation . 
1	a true pleasure . 
1	if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . 
1	despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . 
0	the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . 
0	a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . 
0	it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landing squarely on " stupid " . 
0	bears about as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . 
0	a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . 
1	hey , who else needs a shower ? 
0	nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . 
1	beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '
1	visually striking and viscerally repellent . 
1	another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . 
0	so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . 
0	works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . 
0	adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . 
1	the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . 
1	 . . . less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . 
0	don't waste your money . 
0	cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . 
1	literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . 
0	pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . 
0	nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . 
1	a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . 
1	notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl-
1	writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . 
1	solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . 
1	deliciously slow . 
1	just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . 
1	there are as many misses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises . 
0	rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . 
1	haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . 
1	although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- " cherish " certainly isn't dull . 
1	you'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . 
0	adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '
1	moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story that's still very much playing itself out . 
0	at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . 
0	 . . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . 
1	i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . 
1	the story ultimately takes hold and grips hard . 
0	as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . 
1	the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . 
1	credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . 
1	a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . 
1	an imaginative comedy/thriller . 
1	an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive " missing thing . " 
1	a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack
0	control-alt-delete simone as quickly as possible
1	we get an image of big papa spanning history , rather than suspending it . 
1	it's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by kwan's unique directing style . 
0	wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . 
1	an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . 
0	if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . 
0	while we want macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her . 
0	this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . 
0	like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . 
1	daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . 
1	schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the film's past . 
1	an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . 
0	reggio's trippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . 
0	a dreary movie . 
1	ms . hutchins is talented enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . 
0	the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . 
0	unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . 
1	the movie has a soft , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense . 
1	open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . 
1	although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . 
1	enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . 
0	technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance commercial . 
1	never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . 
0	full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny
0	a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . 
0	boring and meandering . 
1	it's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . 
0	in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . 
0	when 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . 
1	more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . 
0	to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree . 
0	tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . 
1	tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . 
1	me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . 
0	occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . 
1	funny in a sick , twisted sort of way . 
1	a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . 
1	all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . 
0	nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . 
1	it's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects . 
0	a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . 
1	no one goes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've got ice water in your veins . 
0	glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . 
0	leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . 
0	the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . 
0	i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake . 
0	the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . 
1	has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . 
0	hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . 
0	i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . 
1	ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold . 
0	instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . 
1	it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . 
0	what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get made ? 
1	'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . '
0	gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . 
0	a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . 
1	the movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . 
0	spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . 
1	strip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . 
0	everything is off . 
1	it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . 
1	the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . 
1	brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . 
0	unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . 
1	a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . 
1	merci pour le movie . 
1	a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantile . 
1	smart and taut . 
1	an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . 
0	most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears . 
1	though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . 
1	a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history . 
1	it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire . 
1	the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film . 
0	van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . 
1	the bard as black comedy -- willie would have loved it . 
1	the kind of trifle that date nights were invented for . 
1	 . . . very funny , very enjoyable . . . 
1	barry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . 
0	to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . 
0	the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . 
0	a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . 
0	it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . 
0	essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality
0	though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . 
0	 . . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning . 
1	a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better film's ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . 
1	an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . 
1	one of [herzog's] least inspired works . 
0	i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingered . 
0	a sometimes tedious film . 
1	among the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation . 
0	my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional . 
1	the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . 
1	it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room . 
1	this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise : al pacino loathing robin williams . 
0	the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the " webcast . " 
1	don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . 
1	you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . 
0	hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . 
0	a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . 
1	koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . 
1	the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . 
1	skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . 
0	i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i survived . 
1	while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . 
1	it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing
1	a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . 
0	britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . 
1	may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours . 
1	an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . 
0	shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . 
1	the best part about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . 
0	the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . 
1	maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . 
0	an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . 
1	highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . 
0	everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly line . 
1	lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . 
0	the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . 
1	this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . 
0	despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . 
1	it is a likable story , told with competence . 
1	wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . 
0	this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . 
1	it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . 
1	what i saw , i enjoyed . 
1	in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . 
1	if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else . 
1	 . . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen . 
1	a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . 
0	the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . 
0	the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . 
1	 . . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . 
1	there are some wonderfully fresh moments that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . 
1	claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . 
0	when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . 
0	scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . 
0	however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release . 
1	a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . 
0	bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . 
0	like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . 
1	niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the press
1	a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . 
1	you'll end up moved . 
0	richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . 
0	if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . 
0	the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . 
1	goes a long way on hedonistic gusto . 
0	this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . 
0	 . . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . 
0	being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film . 
1	as a science fiction movie , " minority report " astounds . 
0	it uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color . 
0	even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . 
0	i hated every minute of it . 
0	 . . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course . 
0	even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . 
1	like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . 
1	what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . 
1	jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters
0	[a] painfully flat gross-out comedy . . . 
1	more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . 
0	an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . 
1	in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . 
1	the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence . 
0	'[hopkins]doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too committed . he gets his secretary to fax it . " 
0	a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . 
1	both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . 
0	how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . 
1	this is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is . 
1	the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . 
1	this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to make a narrative film about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . 
1	canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . 
0	 . . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . 
0	the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . 
0	newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept  a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . 
1	an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . 
0	a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . 
1	if you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . 
1	lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . 
0	very well made , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . 
1	the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff . 
0	routine and rather silly . 
1	there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedies . 
1	the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting . 
0	it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . 
1	family fare . 
1	michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes . 
1	'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es una experiencia flmica imposible de olvidar'
0	the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . 
0	aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . 
0	there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . 
0	this is as lax and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . 
1	together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . 
1	it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . 
0	you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . 
0	it's probably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . 
0	the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . 
1	fierce , glaring and unforgettable . 
1	nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . 
1	at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . 
0	cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . 
1	not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season . 
0	ihops don't pile on this much syrup . 
1	the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together . 
0	it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . 
1	shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . 
0	feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . 
1	reinforces the talents of screenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . 
0	indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . 
0	an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . 
1	a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . 
1	a marvel like none you've seen . 
1	occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao . 
1	this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . 
0	manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . 
0	stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . 
0	a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . 
0	despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie
0	the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . 
1	 " its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . " 
1	one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . 
0	a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . 
0	boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . 
0	schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . 
1	a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world . 
0	little more than a well-mounted history lesson . 
0	heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations . 
0	if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . 
0	it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the filmit was the unfulfilling , incongruous , " wait a second , did i miss something ? " ending . 
0	a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . 
0	a fascinating but choppy documentary . 
1	poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . 
0	feeble comedy . 
1	a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well . 
1	a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies . 
1	a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . 
0	a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . 
1	even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . 
1	at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon . 
0	gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . 
1	fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point . 
0	gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . 
0	un thriller manqu qui tombe sur les nerfs presque ds la premire image . 
1	audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . 
0	this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . 
1	once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . 
1	it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . 
1	a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . 
1	delirious fun . 
0	made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . 
0	the result is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . 
1	i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . 
1	an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . 
1	i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . 
0	it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . 
0	a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . 
0	a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . 
0	if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam . 
1	if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film . 
1	even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . 
1	the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . 
0	in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . 
0	it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its " dead wife communicating from beyond the grave " framework is even remotely new or interesting . 
0	the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thumbs down . 
1	a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . 
1	the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . 
1	perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . 
1	too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained " big moment " will occur and not " if . " 
0	it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . 
1	just another fish-out-of-water story that barely stays afloat . 
1	nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . 
0	'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . 
0	it's often faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to us , and the story never takes hold . 
1	deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . 
0	snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . 
1	a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . 
0	most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . 
0	unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . 
0	it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes . 
0	unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . 
1	while i can't say it's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . 
0	what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes . 
1	my little eye is the best little " horror " movie i've seen in years . 
0	while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . 
0	an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . 
0	while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . 
1	hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . 
1	the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . 
0	not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . 
0	[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . 
0	should have been someone else-
1	a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . 
0	literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes . 
1	smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . 
1	it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . 
1	a gripping drama . 
1	although estela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . 
0	a chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . 
0	unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . 
0	' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '
1	quietly engaging . 
1	the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . 
1	still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love . 
1	para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatao da realidade histrica . 
0	as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . 
0	it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . 
0	how can such a cold movie claim to express warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . 
0	in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . 
0	about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadful . 
0	the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about . 
0	rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . 
0	seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . 
0	i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . 
0	squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . 
0	the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . 
0	mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . 
1	serious and thoughtful . 
0	the film might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiles . 
1	o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . 
0	really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . 
1	the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . 
0	a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable
0	sometimes smart but more often sophomoric . 
1	delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . 
0	swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent . 
0	it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be . 
1	the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . 
0	donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . 
0	movie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction . 
0	what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . 
1	on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . 
1	an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary . 
0	kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . 
1	director claude chabrol has become the master of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . 
0	 . . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . 
0	like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . 
1	a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . 
0	an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort . 
0	an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . 
0	these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . 
0	absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . 
1	k 19 stays afloat as decent drama/action flick
1	a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongst them . 
0	this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . 
1	may be far from the best of the series , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . 
0	passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . 
1	provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . 
0	this franchise has not spawned a single good film . the crap continues . 
1	foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . 
0	there are many things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . 
0	has all the depth of a wading pool . 
0	the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . 
1	few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . 
1	the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . 
0	bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . 
0	another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . 
1	piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying . 
0	don michael paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seagal ) . 
0	a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . 
0	i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . 
0	as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . 
1	it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . 
0	oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . 
0	i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . 
1	marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy film . 
0	every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . 
1	the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . 
0	when the film ended , i felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . 
1	[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . 
1	with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of " his girl friday , " maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . 
0	this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack . 
0	like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . 
1	 . . . a good , if not entirely fresh , look at war . 
1	can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as music
0	by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . 
1	 " frailty " offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and , there's no way you won't be talking about the film once you exit the theater . 
0	if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they're clueless and inept ? 
0	while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . 
1	several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . 
0	there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . 
1	has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best . 
0	meandering and confusing . 
1	full of profound , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . 
1	though the plot is predictable , the movie never feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . 
0	the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . 
0	we're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments . 
1	far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . 
1	a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film
0	i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . 
1	it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontal . 
0	o timo esforo do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos so explicados . 
1	this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . 
1	phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . 
0	big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . 
1	its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch . 
0	less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . 
1	evelyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . 
1	as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project . 
1	stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . 
0	when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '
0	there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . 
0	a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . 
0	a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work . 
0	so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . 
1	features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . 
0	a horrible , 99-minute stink bomb . 
0	makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . 
1	could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . 
1	director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . 
1	auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . 
0	 . . . a complete shambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . 
0	a sequel that's much too big for its britches . 
1	the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . 
1	often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . 
1	hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . 
0	i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . 
0	the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . 
1	a manically generous christmas vaudeville . 
1	while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . 
1	uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . 
0	rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . 
0	proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . 
0	despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . '
0	a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . 
1	the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . 
0	it's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . 
0	nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . 
1	there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . 
0	personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . 
1	for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . 
0	brisk hack job . 
0	rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . 
0	jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . 
0	a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . 
0	it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . 
0	there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hit . 
1	a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . 
1	[woo's] most resonant film since the killer . 
0	i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . 
1	an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . 
1	topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . 
1	the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . 
0	suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . 
1	it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . 
0	an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . 
0	a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . 
1	spare but quietly effective retelling . 
1	it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . 
1	payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . 
0	shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . 
0	the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that things fall apart . 
0	ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky decision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . 
0	a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . 
0	the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first quarter . 
1	it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . 
0	master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . 
1	expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . 
1	there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . 
1	clever , brutal and strangely soulful movie . 
1	a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents . 
1	it's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once . 
1	scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . 
1	an exhilarating experience . 
1	a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama . 
0	the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . 
0	the film is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematic third act . 
1	p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . 
1	a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . 
1	frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . 
0	it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . 
1	a wonderful , ghastly film . 
1	manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . 
1	if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . 
0	unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . 
1	neil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . 
1	the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . 
1	[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . 
1	a marvel of production design . 
0	an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . 
0	irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . 
0	the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . 
0	the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . 
1	 . . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that  when it comes to truncheoning  it's better to give than to receive . 
1	a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution . 
0	ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . 
0	a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . 
0	sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '
0	birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honor ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . 
0	though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . 
0	no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . 
1	e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . 
0	a boring , formulaic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . 
1	fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . 
0	a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . 
0	truly terrible . 
0	 . . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . 
0	a big fat pain . 
1	sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bad thing . 
0	first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . 
0	guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . 
0	it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . 
1	there's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . 
0	adam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . 
1	one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . 
1	the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . 
1	even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . 
1	a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . 
0	low comedy doesn't come much lower . 
1	that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . 
0	an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . 
1	a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . 
1	renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing . 
1	all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based . 
1	witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . 
0	we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . 
1	amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . 
1	sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation . 
0	something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . 
1	huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . 
1	smart , provocative and blisteringly funny . 
1	the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . 
0	skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . 
0	the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . 
1	a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . 
1	for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . 
1	a portrait of an artist . 
1	ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . 
1	whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . 
1	writer and director otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . 
1	among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . 
0	a full-frontal attack on audience patience . 
1	every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edge of your seat . 
0	it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . 
0	depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . 
1	combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . 
0	this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durable -- imitation . 
1	faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , " a walk to remember " succeeds through sincerity . 
0	well-made but mush-hearted . 
0	a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . 
0	think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world's most generic rock star . 
1	spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . 
0	seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory . 
1	it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! 
1	the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited . 
0	trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . 
1	it's quite diverting nonsense . 
0	entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . 
0	it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . 
0	what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a character worth caring about . 
0	will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . 
0	the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's production design . 
1	when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . 
1	unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . 
0	it may be a prize winner , but teacher is a bomb . 
0	that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . 
0	slick piece of cross-promotion . 
0	the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing . 
0	here's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . 
1	though nijinsky's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . 
0	there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . 
0	a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . 
0	it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . 
1	the film just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . 
0	the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . 
0	with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . 
1	you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . 
1	a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . 
0	the comedy is nonexistent . 
0	it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . 
0	this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange guy things . 
0	cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . 
0	lacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . 
1	taken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . 
1	the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . 
0	for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . 
1	it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . 
1	an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . 
0	a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . 
1	ali's graduation from little screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . 
1	while not quite " shrek " or monsters , inc . " , it's not too bad . it's worth taking the kids to . 
1	leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . 
1	more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9  weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . 
1	a gorgeous , witty , seductive movie . 
1	poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . 
0	to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . 
1	that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . 
0	lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . 
0	this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . 
0	it takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals . 
1	while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . 
0	dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . 
0	as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . 
1	nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one . 
1	this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . 
1	brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . 
1	it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . 
1	cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . 
1	familiar but utterly delightful . 
0	you're better off staying home and watching the x-files . 
1	finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original . 
1	as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create . 
0	this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . 
0	swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . 
0	plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . 
0	unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . 
0	the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count . 
0	although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . 
1	succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture . 
1	while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . 
0	an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . 
0	showtime is closer to slowtime . 
1	an ambitious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that don't come off . 
0	nervous breakdowns are not entertaining . 
1	it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . 
0	only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . 
1	it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . 
0	a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . 
0	the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . 
1	people cinema at its finest . 
0	this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . 
1	the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible ! 
0	in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . 
1	a quiet treasure -- a film to be savored . 
0	loud , silly , stupid and pointless . 
0	enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too placid . 
0	the entire movie is in need of a scented bath . 
1	it's a hoot and a half , and a great way for the american people to see what a candidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech . 
1	thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic . 
1	a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design . 
0	barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . 
0	never again swings between false sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . 
1	a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . 
0	the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination , is a monument to bad in all its florid variety . 
0	unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . 
0	represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre . 
0	by the final whistle you're convinced that this mean machine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . 
1	as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . 
0	slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious . 
0	cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke . 
0	a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . 
1	subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . 
1	makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . 
1	davis has filled out his cast with appealing fresh faces . 
0	[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . 
1	must be seen to be believed . 
0	the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . 
1	even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . 
1	kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing . 
0	despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . 
0	though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following . 
1	diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . 
0	the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . 
1	bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . 
1	slight but enjoyable documentary . 
1	between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . 
1	the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance . 
1	it seems grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . 
1	the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . 
1	brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . 
1	definitely worth 95 minutes of your time . 
0	despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . 
0	in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 24/7 . 
1	if you like peace , you'll like promises . 
0	its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) . 
1	in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . 
1	changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . 
0	everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . 
0	you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . 
1	a lovably old-school hollywood confection . 
1	not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . 
1	 . . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . 
1	all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . 
1	a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . 
1	what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . 
1	it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . 
0	moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . 
1	 . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . 
0	 " the tuxedo " should have been the vehicle for chan that " the mask " was for jim carrey . alas , it's the man that makes the clothes . 
0	a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . 
1	while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . 
0	a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points . 
0	the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . 
1	much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . 
0	you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . 
1	[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills
0	 . . . they missed the boat . 
0	mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . 
1	even when he's not at his most critically insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . 
1	an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . 
1	despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . 
1	great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . 
1	unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . 
1	it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . 
1	reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . 
0	somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . 
0	the intent is almost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . 
0	if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . 
1	it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . 
1	entertains by providing good , lively company . 
1	murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . 
1	like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . 
1	beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . 
1	a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . 
0	suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . 
0	the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix . 
1	it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . 
1	the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . 
0	in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . 
1	it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '
0	the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . 
1	like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . 
1	the climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does
1	jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . 
0	time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . 
0	it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . 
0	the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . 
0	like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . 
0	goes on and on to the point of nausea . 
1	a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . 
1	much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . 
0	while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . 
1	thoughtful , provocative and entertaining . 
1	quite funny for the type of movie it is . . . 
1	not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . 
1	a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star bob crane . 
1	entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together . 
0	even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . 
1	[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . 
1	an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . 
0	labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . 
1	brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life . 
0	a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . 
0	too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . 
1	 . . . as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . 
1	that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . 
1	the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . 
0	i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . 
0	made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . 
0	a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about . 
0	once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . 
0	forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . 
1	well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . 
1	a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . 
0	it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . 
1	an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . 
0	staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . 
1	a weird and wonderful comedy . 
0	is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? 
0	the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . 
1	the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . 
1	fast and funny , an action cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . 
1	a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . 
1	an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't . 
0	the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . 
1	as the movie traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . 
0	the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . 
1	by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . 
1	a moving and important film . 
1	[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . 
0	demands too much of most viewers . 
0	there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . 
0	what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . 
1	this may be burns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . 
1	few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . 
0	never engaging , utterly predictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . 
1	a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out
1	it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . 
1	finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . 
1	the leanest and meanest of solondz's misanthropic comedies . 
1	children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . 
0	this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . 
0	fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . 
1	kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking skill and depth . 
1	a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . 
0	i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it . 
1	austin powers for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that come later . 
1	by the end of the movie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . 
0	its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . 
1	there is truth here
1	hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . 
1	open-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiny . 
1	this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . 
0	the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . 
0	not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . 
1	a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed . 
1	directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . 
1	what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . 
1	dense , exhilarating documentary . 
1	a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . 
1	'easily my choice for one of the year's best films . '
0	rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation . 
0	the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . 
0	just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . 
0	several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . 
0	ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film . 
1	intriguing and downright intoxicating . 
0	a bravura exercise in emptiness . 
1	delightfully rendered
1	girls gone wild and gone civil again
1	the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . 
0	there's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . 
0	serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst . 
1	nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . 
0	a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms . 
0	the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . 
1	[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . 
1	though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . 
1	it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . 
0	to say this was done better in wilder's some like it hot is like saying the sun rises in the east . 
1	like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . 
0	it's a barely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . 
1	elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . 
1	if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out . 
0	disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . 
1	a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . 
1	the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . 
1	the movie is ingenious fun . see it . 
1	you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . 
0	this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting still . 
0	'this movie sucks . '
0	bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . 
1	most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; " frailty " leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . 
1	by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . 
0	the venezuelans say things like " si , pretty much " and " por favor , go home " when talking to americans . that's muy loco , but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of " dragonfly . " 
1	smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . 
0	the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid . 
0	this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . 
1	swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . 
0	tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . 
0	veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda . 
0	a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . 
0	surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . 
1	standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . 
1	the best movie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . 
0	a timid , soggy near miss . 
1	what's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too close to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . 
0	a cockeyed shot all the way . 
1	a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility . 
0	a bad movie that happened to good actors . 
0	has its moments -- and almost as many subplots . 
0	the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . 
0	despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . 
0	often silly  and gross  but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . 
1	overall very good for what it's trying to do . 
1	it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies . 
1	the film is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . 
0	once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . 
0	shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom . 
1	despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . 
1	despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . 
1	the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . 
1	a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . 
0	cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . 
0	shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . 
1	wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars
1	it's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . 
0	what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! 
1	cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . 
1	rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . 
0	sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . 
1	it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . 
0	as crimes go , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is slight but unendurable . 
1	at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . 
1	though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . 
0	a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . 
1	metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . 
1	a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . 
0	adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all . 
1	hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . 
1	 . . . a roller-coaster ride of a movie
1	a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . 
0	the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . 
1	there's something about a marching band that gets me where i live . 
1	it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel . 
0	typical anim , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . 
1	a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . 
1	it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . 
1	the reason to see " sade " lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . 
1	this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998's whatever . 
0	the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . 
0	sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . 
0	whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . 
0	although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . 
0	it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . 
1	all in all , a great party . 
1	thurman and lewis are hilarious throughout . 
0	this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live . 
0	if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slog . 
0	the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . 
0	handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . 
1	this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . 
0	characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . 
1	this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . 
0	 . . . instead go rent " shakes the clown " , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . 
0	in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the " queen " and less of the " damned . " 
0	so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . 
0	blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . 
0	some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . 
0	gets better after foster leaves that little room . 
1	i simply can't recommend it enough . 
1	fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . 
0	too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . 
0	a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . 
0	a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture . 
1	for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . 
0	flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . 
1	an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naivet and sophistication . 
1	not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . 
0	fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . 
1	unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its time to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . 
1	provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . 
1	mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life
1	hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . 
1	despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . 
0	when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie winks . 
0	what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' first movie . 
1	if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch . 
0	the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt schtick look sophisticated . 
0	it's a terrible movie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . 
0	not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were  i doubt it would be all that interesting . 
0	the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . 
1	an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . 
0	an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . 
0	pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . 
1	a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire . 
1	awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful
0	i have no problem with " difficult " movies , or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first , you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want</b> to put for that effort , and " i
1	the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history corners them . 
1	it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . 
0	extremely bad . 
0	unfortunately , one hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . 
0	an unremarkable , modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . 
0	a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . 
1	solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . 
0	breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . 
0	the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joff and demi moore's the scarlet letter . 
0	every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . 
1	the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . 
0	contrived pastiche of caper clichs . 
1	it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic . 
1	this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . 
0	you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus . 
0	there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen's men . 
0	the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . 
1	a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . 
1	' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '
1	will warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it . 
1	in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . 
0	like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . 
0	it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part . 
0	as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . 
1	mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . 
1	even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . 
1	a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . 
1	there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . 
0	verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . 
0	most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved
0	cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . 
0	cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . 
1	excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . 
0	at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . 
1	it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . 
0	i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . 
1	rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . 
1	 . . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . 
1	broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . 
1	the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . 
1	this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . 
0	a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . 
0	just dreadful . i don't blame eddie murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? 
0	the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't much care about . 
0	the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . 
0	diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance
0	spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . 
1	it's endearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . 
1	what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . 
0	it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . 
0	perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . 
1	a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . 
0	some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . 
0	scorsese doesn't give us a character worth giving a damn about . 
0	entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . 
1	be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook . 
1	it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . 
1	you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . 
0	the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . 
0	serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . 
0	oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough
0	with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . 
1	it's always fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work . 
1	at a time when half the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history . 
0	the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . 
0	the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chain . 
0	characters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . 
0	the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too . 
1	'what's the russian word for wow ! ? '
0	this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . 
1	a touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . 
1	it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . 
1	overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . 
0	the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too sentimental . 
0	the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . 
0	too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks . 
1	interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon' right from under their noses . 
0	it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . 
0	a mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . 
1	ranks among willams' best screen work . 
1	this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in places . 
1	a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . 
1	this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . 
0	the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark card . 
0	 . . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be
1	fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . 
0	britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . 
0	full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . 
0	an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach
0	dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . 
0	enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . 
0	starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichs . 
1	austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . 
0	no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuao , harold ramis deve ter sado da cama com o p esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme tambm . 
0	choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '
0	it never rises to its clever what-if concept . 
1	a pleasant piece of escapist entertainment . 
0	as vulgar as it is banal . 
0	the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . 
0	too daft by half . . . but supremely good natured . 
0	director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . 
1	the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . 
1	beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . 
1	a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . 
1	at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . 
1	visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . 
0	mediocre fable from burkina faso . 
0	instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . 
0	those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . 
1	'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '
1	fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life . 
1	watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . 
0	by-the-numbers yarn . 
1	like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . 
1	an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . 
0	the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . 
1	terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man . 
0	as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . 
0	[plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . 
0	fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . 
1	an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . 
0	culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . 
0	a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . 
1	an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams . 
0	a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . 
1	u . s . audiences may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts . 
1	isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . 
1	take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year . 
1	even better than the first one ! 
0	sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . 
1	another one of those estrogen overdose movies like " divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , " except that the writing , acting and character development are a lot better . 
0	coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . 
0	sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . 
1	a superlative b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . 
1	even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a final lap that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . 
1	overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is love . 
1	elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy . 
1	leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . 
1	if you love motown music , you'll love this documentary . 
0	in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . 
0	beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . 
0	rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . 
0	this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . 
0	'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '
1	it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . 
1	a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . 
0	yes , i suppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . 
0	degenerates into hogwash . 
1	although what time offers tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . 
0	impostor is a step down for director gary fleder . 
1	greene delivers a typically solid performance in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the past , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his broad , handsome shoulders . 
1	spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . 
0	you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . 
1	third time's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! 
0	my own minority report is that it stinks . 
0	the film is strictly routine . 
0	ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy clich of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . 
0	one sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot . 
0	if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rarely coherent . 
0	aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . 
0	a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . 
0	further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . 
0	the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . 
1	more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris . 
0	witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . 
0	statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . 
0	the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . 
1	foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . 
0	bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that . 
1	not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . 
0	the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . 
1	finally , the french-produced " read my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first . 
1	one of the funnier movies in town . 
0	 . . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . 
0	stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . 
1	demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . 
1	gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age genre . 
1	an enjoyable experience . 
0	although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . 
0	anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . 
0	the very definition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . " 
1	 " catch me " feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . 
1	passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone . 
0	the film virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . 
0	what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . 
0	the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . 
1	all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groen , described as 'belgium's national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . 
1	the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . 
1	secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . 
0	by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . 
0	lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . 
1	the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . 
1	[ " take care of my cat " ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . 
0	strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild . 
1	a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . 
0	my advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack . 
0	a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . 
1	what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . 
0	abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . 
0	if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dead . 
1	so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . 
1	terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . 
1	[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . 
1	another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it . 
1	the series' message about making the right choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls' amusing personalities . 
1	the film truly does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . 
1	a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . 
1	it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics . 
0	the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . 
0	an erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . 
0	in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine . 
0	matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . 
0	bluto blutarsky , we miss you . 
1	it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . 
0	it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . 
1	most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . 
0	bad and baffling from the get-go . 
1	escapism in its purest form . 
1	if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . 
1	if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . 
1	this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . 
0	rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories . 
0	fluffy and disposible . 
1	i admired this work a lot . 
0	it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . 
0	alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . 
1	a true-blue delight . 
1	director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . 
1	it's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . 
0	 . . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . 
1	a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . 
0	like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . 
1	both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . 
1	while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . 
0	could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . 
1	a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . 
1	that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . 
0	its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . 
0	too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carpets . 
1	the cast comes through even when the movie doesn't . 
0	shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . 
1	may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country . 
0	this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . 
1	aside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . 
1	at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , " i guess i come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . " congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! 
1	the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . 
0	a major waste . . . generic . 
0	the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored . 
1	a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . 
0	intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . 
1	[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . 
1	 " home movie " is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . 
1	'almodvar logra un filme entraable , lleno de compasin , comprensin , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . '
0	starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . 
0	the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . 
1	i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . 
1	a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . 
0	the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . 
0	just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . 
0	the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . 
0	the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . 
1	[hayek] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . 
0	this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . 
1	stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination . 
0	too slow , too long and too little happens . 
0	it's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . 
1	it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . 
0	the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . 
0	barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . 
0	if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . 
0	like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . 
1	sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . 
0	'es en verdad una pena que mandoki est realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algn tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quin sabe dnde lo tiene escondido . '
1	pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . 
0	a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . 
0	plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . 
0	the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . 
0	doesn't really add up to much . 
0	a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . 
1	a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera . 
0	none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to think . 
0	as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . 
1	as unseemly as its title suggests . 
0	the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . 
1	a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the right thing . 
1	a remarkable film by bernard rose . 
1	it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to lose them . 
0	banal and predictable . 
1	performances are potent , and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving . 
0	his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . 
0	this feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head
0	if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . 
1	a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . 
0	just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . 
1	funny and touching . 
1	about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . 
1	director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . 
1	not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care . 
0	to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . 
0	like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . 
1	a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . 
0	poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . 
1	[an] hilarious romantic comedy . 
0	chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . 
1	a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . 
1	the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . 
1	an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . 
1	a compelling film . 
1	enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . 
0	essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty . 
0	video games are more involving than this mess . 
0	the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . 
1	evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . 
1	oddly compelling . 
1	a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . 
1	sexy and romantic . 
0	two-bit potboiler . 
1	a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it . 
1	the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast . 
0	starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . 
0	overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some way . it settles for being merely grim . 
1	very well-written and very well-acted . 
0	peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight . 
1	fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . 
0	static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . 
0	there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a big time stinker . 
1	it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . 
1	birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns . 
1	an escapist confection that's pure entertainment . 
1	look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . 
1	almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . '
0	a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . 
1	y tu mam tambin is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . 
0	it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . 
1	the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . 
0	skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . 
0	on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . 
0	shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . 
0	it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons ever has . 
0	the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warned . 
0	the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . 
1	the results , if not memorable , are at least interesting . 
1	the film is insightful about kissinger's background and history . 
1	although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . 
1	tuck everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . 
0	it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . 
0	rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . 
0	in the book-on-tape market , the film of " the kid stays in the picture " would be an abridged edition
0	there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title . 
1	one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . 
0	theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . 
1	nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . 
0	it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . 
1	succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . 
1	13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas . 
1	others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . 
1	this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . 
1	there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . 
0	you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . 
0	a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . 
1	me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . 
0	an ugly , revolting movie . 
0	it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . 
1	a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . 
1	drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . 
0	too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . 
1	a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . 
1	 . . . a guiltless film for nice evening out . 
0	a boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . 
1	an uplifting , near-masterpiece . 
1	 . . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . 
1	it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . 
0	with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . 
1	where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . 
0	for a film about explosions and death and spies , " ballistic : ecks vs . sever " seems as safe as a children's film . well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . 
1	a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in power in retrospect . 
1	even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . 
1	the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear . 
1	a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . 
1	atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues
0	a workshop mentality prevails . 
1	against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . 
1	works because reno doesn't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience . 
0	lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . 
0	bears is even worse than i imagined a movie ever could be . 
0	in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song . 
1	poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . 
1	as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . 
0	the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . '
1	the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the " big twists " are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . 
0	a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . 
0	much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster movie . 
0	suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . 
0	despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . 
1	this is a finely written , superbly acted offbeat thriller . 
0	love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . 
0	the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . 
1	looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . 
0	the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . 
1	many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . 
0	anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . '
0	burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . 
1	a potent allegorical love story . 
1	although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey
0	guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . 
1	frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen . 
0	overly long and worshipful bio-doc . 
0	an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . 
1	the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers . 
0	madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose . 
0	earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodrama/character study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . 
1	a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . 
1	driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . 
0	mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . 
0	the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . 
1	it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . 
1	like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too late to learn . 
1	i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . 
0	no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . 
0	there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . 
1	the lightest , most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . 
0	 . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . 
0	this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring
0	the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . 
1	when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . 
0	director hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve detention
0	proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . 
0	national lampoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion
0	brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichd white-trash situation imaginable . 
0	it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . 
1	a pleasing , often-funny comedy . 
1	filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . 
1	a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . 
0	 . . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . 
1	maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . 
1	while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii . 
1	pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years . 
1	mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . 
0	hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . 
1	the performances are remarkable . 
1	simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . 
0	the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . 
1	though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess . 
0	leaves you with a knot in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obviousness . 
0	i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . 
1	this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . 
1	writer/director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . 
1	the film's performances are thrilling . 
0	it recycles every clich about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . 
0	 . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . 
0	while the resident evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the third of these . 
1	a masterpiece four years in the making . 
0	most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . 
0	this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . 
1	there's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . 
1	duvall is strong as always . 
1	those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy . 
0	it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental . 
0	i'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . 
0	as [the characters] get more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . 
0	high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . 
1	falls neatly into the category of good stupid fun . 
1	a good thriller . 
1	an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . 
0	the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . 
0	anemic , pretentious . 
0	when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . 
1	hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story . 
0	a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole . 
0	a mild , reluctant , thumbs down . 
0	an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . 
0	storytelling feels slight . 
0	forced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . 
0	oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . 
0	we get the comedy we settle for . 
0	unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . 
0	uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . 
0	even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . 
1	it is quite a vision . 
0	most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant . 
0	as happily glib and vicious as its characters . 
1	deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film . 
0	i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . 
0	any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . 
0	the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . 
0	once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to really care . 
1	in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . 
0	visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying . 
0	this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship . 
0	plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . 
1	represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . 
0	there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . 
1	the movie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journey through life . 
1	the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one . 
1	a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . 
0	i can't recommend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . 
1	an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . 
1	 . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . 
0	instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized . 
1	the film sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . 
0	i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . 
0	the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . 
1	close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . 
1	it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . 
1	greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . 
0	a nearly 21/2 hours , the film is way too indulgent . 
1	morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . 
0	make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . 
0	it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style . 
0	the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . 
1	it would be disingenuous to call reno a great film , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . 
0	inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . 
0	well-meaning but inert . 
0	go , girls , right down the reality drain . 
0	with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . 
1	a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . 
0	it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . 
0	this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . 
0	a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . 
0	the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . 
0	bad company . bad movie . just plain bad . 
0	i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . 
1	it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . 
0	this is the sort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing . 
0	toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . 
1	a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play . 
1	you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . 
0	more a gunfest than a rock concert . 
1	has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a " 2 " at the end of its title . 
1	there are moments of hilarity to be had . 
0	pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . 
1	' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . '
0	credibility sinks into a mire of sentiment . 
0	it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . 
0	before long , the film starts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . 
0	in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . 
0	a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . 
1	a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . 
1	there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . 
1	this is art paying homage to art . 
1	if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . 
1	clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . 
1	generally , clockstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happily killing 94 minutes . 
0	snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him
1	offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . 
0	schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . 
1	an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . 
0	a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . 
0	if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . 
1	it's a charming and often affecting journey . 
0	barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material . 
0	it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . 
0	what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . 
1	without resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . 
1	superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . 
1	'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . '
0	a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . 
1	enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age . 
0	a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . 
0	confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . 
0	just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . 
1	huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair . 
1	disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . 
0	the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . 
1	 . . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . 
0	some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . 
1	a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . 
0	this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . 
1	as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . 
0	the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . 
0	the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . 
1	a highly spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's afraid of his best-known creation ? 
0	if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . 
1	the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations
0	the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything . 
0	sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . 
1	filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . 
0	for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . 
0	anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . 
0	few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terrific performance . 
1	the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . 
0	a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . 
1	if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . 
1	fantastic ! 
0	it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . 
1	a movie that will thrill you , touch you and make you laugh as well . 
0	as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? 
1	a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . 
0	a family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . 
0	give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . 
0	the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad . 
1	sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group . 
0	elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . 
0	this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . 
1	 . . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . 
1	it's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . 
0	prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . 
0	a moving picture that does not move . 
1	culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . 
0	the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . 
0	like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . 
0	such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . 
0	what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip . 
0	observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . 
0	marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgettable movie . 
1	it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . 
0	the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . 
0	clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . 
0	hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . 
0	the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . 
1	is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? 
1	 . . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation . 
0	a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . 
1	while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . 
1	an elegant and sly deadpan comedy . 
0	it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . 
1	the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . 
1	this is one of the year's best films . 
0	a gushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an asian perspective . 
1	the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . 
0	ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing . 
1	not a strike against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . 
0	though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . 
1	despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of " lilo " could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . 
0	skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . 
1	how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . 
1	although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . 
1	vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . 
1	i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . 
0	a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . 
1	this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that could easily crush it forever . 
1	would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . '
0	it's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . 
1	drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . 
0	depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . 
1	a modest masterpiece . 
1	a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . 
0	i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun , but it was neither . 
1	the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . 
0	it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . 
0	overwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . 
0	the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future . 
0	the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . 
0	the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . 
1	a witty , low-key romantic comedy . 
0	throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? 
0	it would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . 
0	this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often . 
1	just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever . 
1	i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to call it a movie . 
0	as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure . 
0	this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . 
1	that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . 
1	a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . 
1	what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than " bladerunner " and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . 
0	i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . 
1	the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . 
1	ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . 
1	spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . 
1	the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . 
1	happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music . 
1	greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill
1	the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public
1	for 95 often hilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outr sexual practice . 
1	a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . 
0	home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . 
1	from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . 
0	the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . 
1	if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . 
1	director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . 
1	it's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal . 
0	staggeringly dreadful romance . 
1	exhilarating , funny and fun . 
0	a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence . 
0	an instant candidate for worst movie of the year . 
0	well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . 
0	hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . 
0	is there enough material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? 
0	admirably ambitious but self-indulgent . 
0	it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action . 
1	warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . 
0	the locale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand . 
1	'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
1	a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . 
1	fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . 
0	shame on writer/director vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens , obsessive relationships , and rampant adultery so dull . 
1	a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . 
0	movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something new ? 
0	kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . 
0	becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . 
1	'barbershop " is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . 
0	this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . 
1	davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . 
1	high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . 
1	a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't object to the description " unelected " have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious , uncharismatic , overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . 
0	it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . 
0	while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out " when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , " it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to " tonight . " 
1	until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . 
0	deserving of its critical backlash and more . 
0	a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . 
0	too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film . 
1	tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . 
1	a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass . 
0	this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . 
0	everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . 
1	a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . 
1	this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentary ! 
1	the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . 
1	watching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realize your mind is being blown . 
1	exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . 
0	it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . 
0	holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . 
0	it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . 
0	blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy . 
0	the performances are so leaden , michael rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud . 
1	the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . 
1	the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . 
1	while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . 
1	an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . 
0	why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ? 
1	brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . 
1	huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty . 
1	as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . 
1	a funny , triumphant , and moving documentary . 
1	the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . 
0	both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . 
0	both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . 
1	escaping the studio , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . 
0	uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . 
0	hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . 
1	smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way . 
1	remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . 
0	isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . 
0	as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . 
0	i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . 
1	often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . 
1	one of the best , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . 
1	refreshing . 
0	the film's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go . 
0	a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . 
1	it is amusing , and that's all it needs to be . 
1	pray has really done his subject justice . 
0	the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . 
0	see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . 
0	there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . 
0	ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a
0	nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . 
1	this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . 
1	the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enough . 
0	pumpkin struts about with " courage " pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its back . 
1	 . . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . 
0	these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . 
0	what the audience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . 
0	it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . 
0	features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . 
1	much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever . 
1	the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . 
1	the thing about guys like evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . 
0	a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . 
1	sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . 
1	a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans . 
1	an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . 
1	it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeness . 
1	it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible . 
1	unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . 
1	this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . 
1	'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . 
1	neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . 
0	only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . 
1	no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . 
0	imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . 
1	rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle
1	one of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . 
1	turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing/reappearing acts
0	journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull . 
0	 . . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . 
1	the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . 
0	i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . 
0	[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . 
1	more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine feeling . 
0	new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . 
0	 . . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . 
1	sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . 
1	it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . 
0	directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . 
1	this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned . 
1	once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady experience . 
1	an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . 
0	like a grinning jack o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . 
0	more of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller . 
1	as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . 
0	though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . 
1	my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple . 
0	[a] mess . 
1	a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . 
0	the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . 
1	a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . 
1	dense with characters and contains some thrilling moments . 
1	the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . 
0	a processed comedy chop suey . 
1	dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . 
1	the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . 
1	i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . 
1	if not a home run , then at least a solid base hit . 
0	kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . 
1	bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy ! 
1	 " 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point . 
0	its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . 
1	a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . 
1	an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . 
0	since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . 
1	almost peerlessly unsettling . 
0	an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . 
1	about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american dream . 
1	[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see . 
1	if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you inand making you sweat . 
0	plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . 
0	it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . 
1	'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '
0	taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . 
1	the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking  because you get it . 
0	a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . 
1	while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . 
0	it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . 
0	for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . 
1	this is not a retread of " dead poets' society . " 
1	simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad . 
1	everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . 
0	naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . 
1	a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . 
0	anyway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a dire drama partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performances , it's not a total loss . 
1	this amiable picture talks tough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . 
1	a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . 
1	you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . 
1	despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . 
0	a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . 
0	the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . 
1	enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentary . 
1	a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . 
1	a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . 
0	if we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the trash that we get . 
1	when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . 
1	woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie biz . 
1	light the candles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . 
1	the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . 
1	it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . 
0	sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . 
1	films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . 
1	the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . 
1	a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . 
0	it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . 
1	it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! 
0	it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . 
1	as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectly creepy and believable . 
1	'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '
0	 . . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . 
1	williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . 
0	hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . 
0	little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . 
1	the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . 
1	the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . '
1	visually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative . 
1	saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . 
1	there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out . 
0	this is so bad . 
1	it's a very valuable film . . . 
0	a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a total rehash . 
0	while hoffman's performance is great , the subject matter goes nowhere . 
1	a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . 
1	inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . 
0	the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . 
0	filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . 
0	more tiring than anything . 
0	none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . 
0	yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally " superior " friends , family . . . 
0	we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . 
0	one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . 
1	a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . 
0	this thing is just garbage . 
0	i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . 
1	the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . 
1	filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . 
0	even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . 
0	the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . 
0	one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . 
0	you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . 
1	os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman so complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . 
1	better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . 
1	a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . 
1	the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale . 
0	deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going . 
0	lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . 
0	[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't even halfway through . 
0	despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . 
1	 . . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that could touch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport
0	there's a lot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . 
0	those who managed to avoid the deconstructionist theorizing of french philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . 
0	it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . 
0	not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . 
0	whenever you think you've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . 
1	ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . 
1	offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . 
1	this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . 
1	beautifully directed and convincingly acted . 
0	patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . 
0	an uplifting , largely bogus story . 
0	if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . 
0	[a] crushing disappointment . 
1	[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . 
0	the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . 
1	even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . 
1	if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . 
1	4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabst blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip . 
0	how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [franois and michle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them . 
1	arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . 
0	too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . 
1	ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . 
0	guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . 
1	the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . 
0	gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful clich in the book at this nonsensical story . 
0	one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . 
1	the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine
0	a chiller resolutely without chills . 
0	as original and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music . 
1	even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . 
1	it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . 
0	lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's compelling . 
1	a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . 
0	astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . 
0	it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . 
1	over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and substance . 
1	a heartening tale of small victories and enduring hope . 
1	what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale  as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . 
0	dramatically lackluster . 
1	cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . 
1	a refreshingly authentic coming-of-age tale . 
1	the cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story . 
1	a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding . 
0	it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scary . 
0	i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . 
1	in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . 
0	the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences . 
1	suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . 
0	a little too pat for its own good . 
0	[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . 
0	qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating . 
0	a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . 
1	an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . 
1	dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horrifies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yes , and then there's the music . . . 
0	tends to plod . 
0	if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way . 
1	[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . 
0	there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so we're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity . 
1	the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness  which makes for a terrifying film . 
1	[kline's] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . 
1	as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . 
1	it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . 
0	frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . 
1	best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere . 
1	both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . 
0	just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . 
0	the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . 
0	although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . 
1	a very capable nailbiter . 
0	the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7th heaven . " 
1	a haunting tale of murder and mayhem . 
1	massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . 
0	this is a heartfelt story . . . it just isn't a very involving one . 
0	sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . 
1	you won't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . 
1	the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . 
0	diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . 
1	a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . 
1	the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . 
0	nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . 
1	a delirious celebration of the female orgasm . 
1	an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . 
0	forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? 
1	does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story . 
1	coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . 
0	you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . 
0	as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs . 
0	nonsensical , dull " cyber-horror " flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . 
0	however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . 
0	so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . 
0	its one-sidedness . . . flirts with propaganda . 
1	george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . 
1	it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . 
0	even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . 
1	if you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . 
0	if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . 
1	en s mismo el rey len es un espectculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . 
1	singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs  a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story  but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . 
0	definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . 
1	it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . 
1	nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . 
0	demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . 
1	peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . 
1	stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . 
0	it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . 
1	brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . 
1	never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . 
1	a movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . 
1	the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . 
0	a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . 
1	surprisingly powerful and universal . 
0	the whole talking-animal thing is grisly . 
0	been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and better . 
1	as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . 
1	schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does . 
1	formuliac , but fun . 
1	jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . 
0	the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . 
1	occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodvar style . 
0	aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . 
0	more of the same old garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . 
0	the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . 
1	like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama
0	evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . 
0	i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again . 
0	isn't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . 
1	this is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood . 
1	[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . 
1	it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . 
0	a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . 
0	and people make fun of me for liking showgirls</> . 
0	it wraps up a classic mother/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new , at least it looks pretty . 
1	fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots , just dots . 
0	no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . 
1	hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . 
1	[a] rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . 
0	even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . 
1	the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . 
1	it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . 
0	after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . 
1	a solidly entertaining little film . 
0	every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . 
1	travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . 
1	harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . 
0	the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . 
0	it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long past . 
1	at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . 
0	a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken . 
0	one long string of cliches . 
1	 . . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . 
1	stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . 
1	a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . 
0	family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . 
0	the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences
1	zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . 
0	howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . 
0	overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of taste . 
0	unwieldy contraption . 
1	if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . 
1	uneven but a lot of fun . 
0	director clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . 
0	too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . 
0	vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . 
1	full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000
0	the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . 
0	the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . 
1	a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol . 
1	led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . 
1	just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . 
0	merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . 
0	it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . 
0	as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction . 
0	[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . 
1	in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . 
1	for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . 
0	a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . 
0	i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . 
0	if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . 
1	director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . 
0	it's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . 
0	a reality-snubbing hodgepodge . 
1	a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . 
1	it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . 
1	there are a couple of things that elevate " glory " above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall . 
0	for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '
1	a film of quiet power . 
0	plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . 
1	at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts . 
0	a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore . 
1	the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . 
1	a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . 
1	if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . 
0	this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmmmight i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? 
0	brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . 
0	there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . 
0	there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there . 
0	silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . 
0	the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . 
1	an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . 
0	laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . 
0	at times , it actually hurts to watch . 
1	superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot . 
1	a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown . 
0	although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless 70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom . 
0	serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . 
1	filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's new delhi . 
0	this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tad slow . 
0	although disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . 
0	the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . 
1	goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . 
1	 . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that " crazy " people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny . 
0	white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . 
1	the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . 
1	the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . 
1	this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . 
1	a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . 
1	the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . 
1	a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . 
0	very stupid and annoying . 
1	a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . 
1	a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . 
0	there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . 
0	plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . 
0	watching trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms . 
0	apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . 
0	the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . 
1	it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth . 
1	but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human one . 
1	tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham . 
1	the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . 
0	a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . 
0	overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . 
0	this is no " waterboy ! " 
1	for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . 
1	[ " safe conduct " ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama , romance , tragedy , bravery , political intrigue , partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! 
1	a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail . 
1	the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . 
0	how this one escaped the lifetime network i'll never know . 
1	an extraordinary dramatic experience . 
1	about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . 
0	sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . 
0	while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter
1	the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers . 
0	i found myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually done . 
0	the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes . 
0	for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . 
0	less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan . 
1	if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . 
1	the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasure . 
0	nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . 
0	the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun  toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . 
1	a brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . 
1	there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . 
0	whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . 
0	first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? 
0	despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . 
1	despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . 
1	this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . 
0	the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . 
1	an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . 
0	however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . 
0	there's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compassion . 
0	directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . 
0	the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . 
1	an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . 
0	clever but not especially compelling . 
1	a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . 
0	witless and utterly pointless . 
1	the filmmaker's heart is in the right place . . . 
1	that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . 
1	the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . 
0	after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . 
1	it's rare to find a film that dazzles the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more . 
0	national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . 
1	a dazzling dream of a documentary . 
0	a low-rent retread of the alien pictures . 
1	what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . 
1	more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . 
1	wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . 
0	in the end , there isn't much to it . 
0	full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . 
0	so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film . 
1	if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . 
1	the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . 
0	romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . 
1	film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . 
0	a benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion . 
0	an often unfunny romp . 
0	a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . 
1	a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . 
0	though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . 
0	there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . 
0	viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . 
1	daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . 
0	yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling . 
1	that 'alabama' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . 
1	the vistas are sweeping and the acting is far from painful . 
0	a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . 
0	arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . 
0	in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . 
0	the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . 
0	a harmless and mildly amusing family comedy . 
1	you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see " simone , " and consider a dvd rental instead . 
1	holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . 
1	 . . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . 
1	with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . 
1	there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country . 
1	the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . 
0	it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . 
1	throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . 
0	safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . 
1	full of surprises . 
1	a surprisingly funny movie . 
1	the draw [for " big bad love " ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . 
0	'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved franchise survive ? '
0	a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of specificity . 
0	i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . 
0	children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . 
0	the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . 
0	the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . 
0	chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movies are about . 
1	a chronicle not only of one man's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's end , an extended publicity department . 
1	heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter nss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . 
1	[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around us every day . 
0	the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's worse , routine . 
0	totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . 
0	little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . 
1	 . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the true film buff will enjoy . 
1	true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . 
0	collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . 
0	a relative letdown . 
0	mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . 
0	attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . 
0	if you're a crocodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at least the " real " portions of the film . if you're looking for a story , don't bother . 
0	'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reeses without the peanut butter . . . '
1	just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . 
0	with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . 
1	what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . 
0	k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . 
0	the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing . 
1	in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of freedom the iranian people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box . 
1	ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . 
1	it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . 
0	 . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . 
1	a thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . 
1	bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . 
1	an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . 
1	this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope . 
1	nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . 
1	the story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday . 
1	while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine . 
1	a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world . 
1	sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . 
0	a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . 
1	the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . 
1	as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records . 
0	no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . 
1	steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . 
1	while this film is not in the least surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . 
0	dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . 
1	none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? 
1	there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok . 
0	as steamy as last week's pork dumplings . 
0	first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . 
0	it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . 
1	the film is a very good viewing alternative for young women . 
0	ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . 
0	the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . 
0	muddled , trashy and incompetent
0	sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . 
1	with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . 
0	what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . 
1	you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . 
1	marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . 
1	a superbly acted and funny/gritty fable of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . 
0	it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . 
1	for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in particular , it's an eye-opener . 
1	the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . 
0	it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong . 
