[
 "freshman fluke ",
 "makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while . ",
 "it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come ",
 "is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . ",
 "a 60-second homage ",
 "this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",
 "hilarious dialogue ",
 "stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions ",
 "essentially awkward version ",
 "a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you had n't seen ",
 "it 's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ` em together here . ",
 "the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",
 "would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at ",
 "musical passion ",
 "do n't need to try very hard ",
 "inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , ",
 "little more than routine ",
 "swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",
 "so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work ",
 ", entertaining thriller ",
 "was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival ",
 "make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom ",
 "a poem to the enduring strengths of women ",
 "the movie 's messages are quite admirable ",
 "too predictably ",
 "in a giant pile of elephant feces ",
 "one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times ",
 "is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart ",
 "'s no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form ",
 "entertain all ages ",
 "the amateurish ",
 "an architect of pop culture ",
 "bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique ",
 "chilling style ",
 "quite tasty ",
 "us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work ",
 "an unpleasantly ",
 "inevitable and ",
 "teddy bears ' ",
 "but believe it or not , it 's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen . ",
 "how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest ",
 "parker 's creative interference ",
 "wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits ",
 "it 's the best sequel since the empire strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",
 "movie-star intensity ",
 "genial is the conceit , ",
 "sex is one of those films that aims to confuse . ",
 "historical truth and realism ",
 "including a knockout of a closing line ) ",
 ", crossroads comes up shorter than britney 's cutoffs . ",
 "this nonsensical story ",
 "it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",
 "incredibly layered and stylistic ",
 "mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady ",
 "the film itself is small and shriveled ",
 "the worst thing ",
 "the predictability ",
 "a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast ",
 "has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him ",
 "look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten ",
 "a choppy , surface-effect feeling ",
 "the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy ",
 "stare and sniffle ",
 "has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him ",
 "toolbags ",
 "turns the marquis de sade into a dullard ",
 "to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television ",
 "has a compelling story to tell . ",
 "a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . ",
 "i might add -- slice of comedic bliss ",
 "the touch is generally light enough and ",
 "almost wildly alive ",
 "for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors ",
 "it makes you feel like a chump ",
 "episode ii -- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight ",
 "while cleverly worked out ",
 "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 ",
 "right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",
 "the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . ",
 "not everything ",
 "drag an audience ",
 "petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars ",
 "into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie ",
 "pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure ",
 "relied too much on convention ",
 "stranded ",
 "blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",
 "this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . ",
 "made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience ",
 "too mushy ",
 "clich\u00e9s and borrowed images ",
 "he 's a better actor than a standup comedian . ",
 "that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel ",
 "could use a little more humanity , but ",
 "anchored by splendid performances ",
 "say nothing of boring ",
 "is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",
 "appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ",
 "as good a job as anyone ",
 "simple tale ",
 "the most complex , generous and subversive artworks ",
 "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 ",
 "delightful ",
 "the sword fighting is well done and ",
 "an honestly nice little film ",
 "as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that 's been given the drive of a narrative and that 's been acted out -- ",
 "draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss ",
 "be careful what you wish for ",
 "spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels ",
 "tartakovsky 's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but ",
 "captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other ",
 "is strong as always . ",
 "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 ",
 "blessed with a searing lead performance ",
 "makes this movie worth seeing ",
 "been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie ",
 ", pasty lumpen ",
 "of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film ",
 "fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious ",
 "as monumental as disney 's 1937 breakthrough ",
 "other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- ",
 "larry fessenden 's spooky new thriller ",
 "the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic ",
 "fully formed and ",
 "is loopy and ludicrous ",
 "sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor ",
 "to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today ",
 "staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors ",
 "certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories ",
 "the rare common-man artist who 's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness ",
 "assured , vital and ",
 "but it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",
 "a bad improvisation exercise ",
 "is extraordinarily good ",
 "found in almost all of his previous works ",
 "as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound ",
 "godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . ",
 "-- sadly -- dull ",
 "have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling ",
 "incoherence and sub-sophomoric ",
 "instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games ",
 "the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ",
 "explore the connections between place and personal identity . ",
 "seem so real ",
 "still fun and enjoyable and ",
 "trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish ",
 "b-movie imagination ",
 "a little old-fashioned storytelling ",
 "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 . ",
 "so vivid ",
 "takes you somewhere ",
 "it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing ",
 "a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . ",
 "like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough ",
 "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 ",
 "not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing ",
 "a little weak -- and it is n't that funny . ",
 "mean-spirited and wryly observant . ",
 "sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature ",
 "the comic effects of jealousy ",
 "borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism ",
 "is not edward burns ' best film ",
 "all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",
 "brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , ",
 "deserves a place of honor next to nanook ",
 "moving and weighty ",
 "almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- ",
 "humanism ",
 "directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory ",
 "a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life ",
 ", brutally clueless ",
 "moving portrait ",
 "throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ",
 "is to be mesmerised . ",
 "ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro . ",
 "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 ",
 "actually pulling it off ",
 "is barely ",
 "but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti ",
 "properly intense , claustrophobic tale ",
 "find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash ",
 "exploitative and largely devoid ",
 "slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and ",
 "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 ",
 "a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas ",
 "done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen ",
 "an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humor and reinforcement of stereotypes ",
 "'ll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture ",
 "scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv ",
 "observant , unfussily poetic meditation ",
 "the top japanese animations ",
 "is n't much better ",
 "franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic . ",
 "valley of the dolls ",
 "watch the film twice ",
 "moulin rouge ",
 "the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi 's now-cliched vampire accent ",
 "fails to arrive at any satisfying destination ",
 "aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats ",
 "real narrative logic ",
 "most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes ",
 "together ( time out and human resources ) establish mr. cantet as france 's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace ",
 "deserved co-winner ",
 "'s still terrible ! ",
 ", if good-hearted , movie . ",
 "watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises ",
 "saucy ",
 "'s really well directed ",
 "no new friends ",
 "the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",
 "immersed ",
 "... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",
 "love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ",
 "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 , do n't shoot the messenger ) . ",
 "that is gorgeously ",
 "shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team ",
 "'s lots of cute animals and clumsy people ",
 "'s a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",
 "has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing ",
 "... the story , like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",
 "adam watstein with finishing it at all ",
 "be as entertaining ",
 "a minimalist beauty and ",
 "gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . ",
 "killer ",
 "humorless , ",
 "this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big , dumb action movie . ",
 "at once both refreshingly different and ",
 "surprisingly affecting ",
 "part of that delicate canon ",
 "almost peerlessly unsettling . ",
 "does n't really know or care about the characters , and ",
 "must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride ",
 "could n't stand to hear ",
 "is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype ",
 "standout ",
 "an essentially awkward version ",
 "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 ",
 "hilariously , gloriously alive , ",
 "yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . ",
 "pushes its agenda too forcefully ",
 "an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson ",
 ", unnecessary ",
 "been much better ",
 "suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",
 "improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor ",
 "a bittersweet drama ",
 "the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . ",
 "to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images ",
 "who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world ",
 "- i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ",
 "a good movie ye who enter here ",
 "its questionable satirical ambivalence ",
 "broomfield is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and ",
 "skid-row ",
 "distasteful and ",
 "deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe ",
 "recovering from its demented premise ",
 "treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going ",
 "the guys still feels counterproductive ",
 "franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler ",
 "well-intentioned effort ",
 "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 . ",
 "inarticulate ",
 "bolado credit for good intentions ",
 "of the charm and little ",
 "of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship ",
 "it is essentially empty ",
 "realized the harsh reality of my situation ",
 "the minds and hearts of many ",
 "gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . ",
 "a funny , triumphant , and ",
 ", nothing good can happen ",
 "took of the family vacation ",
 "a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement ",
 "is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",
 "this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment . ",
 "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 ",
 "a tree ",
 "between sullivan and his son ",
 "too cynical ",
 "loveable or otherwise ",
 "three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut ",
 "a superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place ",
 "this film 's impressive performances and adept direction ",
 "artistic ",
 "enthusiastic ",
 "while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . ",
 "will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . ",
 "farts , urine , ",
 "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 ",
 "felt performances across the board . ",
 "the holocaust ",
 "to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads ",
 "churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action ",
 "stop-and-start pacing ",
 "'re left with a sour taste in your mouth ",
 "constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey ",
 "most brilliant and brutal ",
 "such superficial treatment ",
 "anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take ",
 "sneaks up on you ",
 "enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , ",
 "self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music ",
 "an eye-boggling blend ",
 "delight in the images ",
 "too erotic nor very thrilling ",
 "is a monumental achievement ",
 "things fall apart ",
 "is definitely worth seeing . ",
 "wooden performances ",
 "features fincher 's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ",
 "credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it ",
 "well-thought stunts ",
 "the threat implied in the title pok\u00e9mon 4ever is terrifying ",
 "the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but ",
 "is quite a vision . ",
 "pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness ",
 "a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clich\u00e9s and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . ",
 "style and mystification ",
 "whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone ",
 "is remembering ",
 "even murphy 's expert comic timing and famed charisma ca n't rescue this effort . ",
 "the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",
 "remotely probing or penetrating . ",
 "unmentionable ",
 "cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional ",
 "about female friendship that men can embrace and women ",
 "clever , offbeat and even gritty enough ",
 "completely predictable plot ",
 "its usual worst ",
 "is icily brilliant ",
 "'s no place for this story to go but down ",
 "rich in shadowy metaphor ",
 "with its moving story ",
 "there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . ",
 "has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie ",
 "good deal ",
 "had no trouble sitting for blade ii . ",
 "beautiful ",
 "well-thought stunts or a car chase ",
 "the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary ",
 "seem irritatingly transparent ",
 "plain bad ",
 "boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . ",
 "chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ",
 "less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series ",
 "somehow snagged an oscar nomination ",
 "the charming result ",
 "espn ",
 "remarkably accessible and haunting ",
 "smile-button ",
 "has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",
 "mr. schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",
 "the essence of what it is to be ya-ya ",
 "she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ",
 "that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew ",
 "to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood ",
 "diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly ",
 "that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways ",
 "too much syrup ",
 "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 ",
 "viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' ",
 "you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "so memorable ",
 "beautiful , angry and sad , ",
 "such a big job ",
 "desperate for the evening to end ",
 "bring their characters to life ",
 "puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ",
 "a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will ",
 "sumptuous stream ",
 "irresistible blend ",
 "'s hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . ",
 "'s surprisingly decent , ",
 "is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",
 "a great performance and a reminder of dickens ' grandeur ",
 "( dong ) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view , and ",
 ", more playful tone ",
 "takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . ",
 "looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . ",
 "those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace ",
 "the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ",
 "the project should have been made for the tube . ",
 "hope britney wo n't do it one more time , as far as ",
 "'s lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style ",
 "is in trouble ",
 "nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining ",
 "savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers ",
 "` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' ",
 "with this masterful ",
 "the food is enticing ",
 "lush ",
 "yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ",
 "an exceptionally good idea ",
 "overbearing ",
 "brave , uninhibited performances ",
 "portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite ",
 "constantly touching , surprisingly funny , ",
 "i ca n't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . ",
 "do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't ",
 "and in a sense , that 's a liability . ",
 "witty and often surprising ",
 "over-indulgent tirade ",
 "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 ",
 "written , flatly , by david kendall ",
 "compelling and ",
 "usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails ",
 "of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films ",
 "by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . ",
 "real humor ",
 "by bad writing ",
 "thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait ",
 "makes it a comic book with soul ",
 ", seamless and sumptuous stream ",
 "a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature ",
 "the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting ",
 "it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases ",
 "builds its multi-character story with a flourish ",
 "director randall wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency ",
 "patriotic ",
 "has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just ",
 "seen in that light ",
 "yiddish stage ",
 "a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time ",
 "i 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but ",
 "is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ",
 "sterile and ",
 "easily and , in the end , not well enough ",
 "america 's thirst ",
 "to camouflage how bad his movie is ",
 "his is an interesting character ",
 "this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ",
 "all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new ",
 "expand a tv show ",
 "the history is fascinating ; ",
 "bounces ",
 "directed with verve ",
 "such a flat , plodding picture ",
 ", badly cobbled look ",
 "realism , crisp storytelling and radiant ",
 "eastwood is off his game ",
 "a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "does n't necessarily ",
 "need of a scented bath ",
 "schizo cartoon ",
 "have a reasonably good time with the salton sea ",
 "i feel better already . ",
 "good inside dope ",
 "liar ",
 "is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ",
 "love , family ",
 "a fresh point of view ",
 "a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",
 "above the ordinary ",
 "some cute moments ",
 "feel a nagging sense of deja vu ",
 "sad nonsense , ",
 "a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ",
 "especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget ",
 "a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy ",
 "weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title ",
 "enthralling ",
 "skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ",
 "in getting under the skin of her characters ",
 "competent , unpretentious entertainment ",
 "horrendously ",
 "the costuming of the stars ",
 "wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",
 "are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject ",
 "is hugely overwritten ",
 "weak claims ",
 "satisfyingly scarifying ",
 "eerily ",
 "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 . ",
 "directed , barely , by there ",
 "genuinely funny ",
 "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 ",
 "is a very funny , heartwarming film ",
 "feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark ",
 "the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people ",
 "to the serbs themselves ",
 "showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches ",
 "in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth ",
 "is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen ",
 "is so thoughtlessly assembled ",
 "same sledgehammer appeal ",
 "french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition ",
 "our respect ",
 "sincere , and just ",
 "a mess as this one ",
 "nicole holofcenter , the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy does n't wrap the proceedings up neatly ",
 "an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it ",
 "you wish had been developed with more care ",
 "a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off ",
 "cheap , ",
 "he 's one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . ",
 "forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action ",
 "bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . ",
 "draws its considerable power from simplicity ",
 "bad and baffling ",
 "the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ",
 "realized through clever makeup design ",
 "an unforced , rapid-fire delivery ",
 "the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive ",
 "be glued to the screen ",
 "unfortunately also ",
 "be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it ",
 "a quietly moving ",
 "grand fart ",
 "with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers ",
 "in all the right ways ",
 "devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity ",
 "where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",
 "of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless ",
 "'s never dull and ",
 "while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome clich\u00e9 ",
 "interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul 's perspective ",
 "its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences ",
 "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 ",
 "on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy ",
 "are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels ",
 "as a tragic figure ",
 "an honest attempt to get at something ",
 "juicy ",
 "it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian ",
 "is funny , charming and quirky ",
 "guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts ",
 "ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ",
 "been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over ",
 "stands for milder is n't better ",
 "with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character 's gripping humanity ",
 "dogged ",
 "glorious ",
 "rehashes to feed to the younger generations ",
 "has thrown every suspenseful clich\u00e9 in the book at this nonsensical story ",
 "are clinically depressed ",
 "was put through torture for an hour and a half ",
 "... stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",
 "-- and timely ",
 "stand as intellectual masterpieces ",
 "have banged their brains into the ground so frequently ",
 "potent chemistry ",
 "the intoxicating fumes ",
 "proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ",
 "worth a look as a curiosity ",
 "to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors ",
 "'s a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . ",
 "animated filmmaking since old walt ",
 "a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable ",
 "in all fairness ",
 "hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old ",
 "its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ",
 "entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed ",
 "be like trying to eat brussels sprouts ",
 "deviant ",
 "will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll ",
 "but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time ",
 "'s refreshing to see a romance this smart ",
 "to bowling you over ",
 "going to face frightening late fees ",
 "addict ",
 "are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze ",
 "an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids ",
 "frailty fascinates ",
 "descends into such message-mongering moralism ",
 "blood ",
 "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 ",
 "the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious ",
 "the film 's shortcomings ",
 ", it runs for 170 ",
 "he was reading the minds of the audience . ",
 "that the franchise 's best years are long past ",
 "viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving ",
 "skilfully ",
 "is wonderful . ",
 "of genuine insight into the urban heart ",
 "is essentially juiceless . ",
 "ill-equipped ",
 "morally ",
 "pleasing verisimilitude ",
 "a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . ",
 "while the third feels limited by its short running time ",
 "rousing , g-rated family film ",
 "a student film ",
 "ultimately tragic ",
 "the worst excesses of nouvelle ",
 "resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors ",
 "danis ",
 "its contrivances ",
 "likely to find compelling ",
 "not-nearly ",
 "sluggish pacing ",
 "ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe ",
 "a coma ",
 "a sketchy work-in-progress ",
 "is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors ",
 "fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time ",
 "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 ",
 "closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel ",
 "has a feel for the character at all stages of her life ",
 "rank with its worthy predecessors ",
 "a sure hand ",
 "audacity to view one of shakespeare 's better known tragedies as a dark comedy ",
 "mandy moore leaves a positive impression ",
 "a screenplay to die for ",
 "hits every cliche we 've come to expect , including the assumption that `` crazy '' people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny ",
 "her pure fantasy character , ",
 "to seek our tears , our sympathies ",
 "a bright future ahead of him ",
 ", one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",
 "a solid formula ",
 "the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . ",
 "a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . ",
 "holm does his sly , intricate magic , ",
 "essentially ruined -- or ",
 "to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out ",
 "'s the worst movie of 2002 ",
 "thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",
 "kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and ",
 "3-d ",
 "provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ",
 "made me want to pack raw dough in my ears ",
 "to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s ",
 "will be pleased to discover that tian 's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus ",
 "to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie ",
 "unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck ",
 "in such a gloriously goofy way ",
 "leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach ",
 "with a bright future ahead of him ",
 "the rich and sudden wisdom , ",
 "richly ",
 ", it does n't work . ",
 "odd and weird . ",
 "convey a strong sense of the girls ' environment . ",
 "entirely stale ",
 "the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ",
 "are an absolute joy ",
 "pretty good little movie . ",
 "the stale material ",
 "farcically bawdy ",
 "non-stop funny feast ",
 "hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction ",
 "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 . ",
 "keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good ",
 "astoundingly ",
 "blob ",
 "occasionally interesting ",
 "its sweeping battle scenes ",
 "this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ",
 "devastated ",
 "check it out ",
 "a compelling french psychological drama ",
 "failing ",
 "the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies ",
 "hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful ",
 "maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another ",
 "filter out the complexity ",
 "the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and ",
 "feel anything much while watching this movie , ",
 "crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ",
 "suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance ",
 "no-surprise ",
 "loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . ",
 "donovan ... squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",
 "with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life ",
 "than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises ",
 "it 's a barely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ",
 "good fun ",
 "from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing ",
 "a predictable outcome and a screenplay ",
 "is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i 'd care to count . ",
 "fire a torpedo ",
 "lucratively ",
 "albeit a visually compelling one ",
 "in a dead-end existence ",
 ", cliched and clunky ",
 "stinks from start ",
 "this arrogant richard pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny ",
 ", it 's just grating ",
 "urge to doze ",
 "sexiness ",
 "even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n'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 . ",
 "that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers ",
 "a typical bible killer story ",
 "is that its own action is n't very effective ",
 "adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",
 "is disgusting to begin with ",
 "hilarity ",
 "ferrara 's ",
 "laughable ",
 "farm melodrama . ",
 "put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals ",
 "little to salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation ",
 "of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ",
 "over-familiarity ",
 "tender and ",
 "enjoy the movie ",
 "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 . ",
 "'s so not-at-all-good ",
 "'s a hellish ",
 "real pleasure in its laid-back way ",
 "is a successful one . ",
 "the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; ",
 "artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson ",
 "rich details ",
 "sub ",
 "family ",
 "a man has made about women since valley of the dolls ",
 "'s consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",
 "takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : ",
 "it 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . ",
 ", meditative ",
 "would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility ",
 "just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer ",
 "the usual movie rah-rah ",
 ", poignant and leavened ",
 "an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs ",
 "lacks juice and delight ",
 "truly come to care about the main characters ",
 "shows crushingly little curiosity about ",
 "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 ",
 "there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; ",
 "10 ",
 "perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair ",
 "a weird fizzle ",
 "to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ",
 "better actor ",
 "has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",
 "goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ",
 "into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem ",
 "fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and ",
 "many different ideas from happiness ",
 "has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll . ",
 "gentle but insistent sincerity ",
 "great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help ",
 "make gangster no. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience ",
 "efficient , suitably anonymous chiller ",
 "catapulting the artist ",
 "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 . ",
 "leaden and dull ",
 "mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance ",
 "frustratingly timid and soggy ",
 "another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke - ",
 "an entertaining and informative documentary ",
 "likely to see all year ",
 "will stand in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",
 "'s anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair ",
 "crisp , unaffected style ",
 "a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up ",
 "superior '' ",
 "deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation ",
 "after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here ",
 "is a feast for the eyes ",
 "real human soul ",
 "in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year ",
 "snl '' has-been ",
 "subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer ",
 "a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth ",
 "especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english ",
 "mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush ",
 "more measured or polished production ",
 "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 ",
 "yeah , baby ",
 "this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body ",
 "the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose ",
 "a delicious crime drama on par ",
 "a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies . ",
 "jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - ",
 "peaked ",
 "romantic , riveting and handsomely animated . ",
 "an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ",
 "concrete story ",
 "irony ",
 "a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and ",
 "channeling kathy baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women 's augustine ",
 "takes care ",
 "was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo ",
 "a cleverly ",
 "in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot ",
 "the utter cuteness ",
 "often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ",
 "extremely unpleasant ",
 "let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , ",
 "is beyond playing fair with the audience ",
 "flat , flat dialogue ",
 "ca n't disguise the fact that it 's inauthentic at its core and that its story just is n't worth telling . ",
 "is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects ",
 "integrity ",
 "hard for me ",
 "cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . ",
 "ca n't recommend it . ",
 "liked a lot of the smaller scenes . ",
 "have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries ",
 "a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches ",
 "without much success ",
 "it reveals ",
 "( including a knockout of a closing line ) ",
 "poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . ",
 "storytelling skills ",
 "little-known perspective ",
 "while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part ",
 "the highs and lows ",
 "an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion ",
 "is too much of a plunge ",
 "lacks in eye-popping visuals ",
 "what i saw , i enjoyed . ",
 "to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture ",
 "relationship and ",
 "spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick ",
 "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 . ",
 "be called the best korean film of 2002 ",
 "evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream ",
 "for that sense of openness , the little surprises ",
 "even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring ",
 "an irresistible blend of warmth and humor ",
 "little less bling-bling and a lot more ",
 "the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all ",
 "the worthy successor to a better tomorrow ",
 "to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images ",
 "protagonist ",
 "a christmas perennial ",
 "finely ",
 "a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and ",
 "immensely ambitious , ",
 "taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and ",
 "about kicking undead *** ",
 "a dim-witted and lazy spin-off ",
 "a part of its grand locations ",
 "spiffy ",
 "feels contrived , ",
 "more re-creations of all those famous moments ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "that is often quite rich and exciting ",
 "if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that 's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in ... and making you sweat . ",
 "'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 . ",
 "jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . ",
 "the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theaters ",
 "being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams ",
 "evans is ) a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",
 "for violence ",
 "about full frontal ",
 "loose , poorly structured film ",
 "the worst sense ",
 ", though goofy and lurid , ",
 "dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and ",
 "a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore ",
 "the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that 's where this film should have remained ",
 "for two movies ",
 "to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing ",
 "went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no. 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . ",
 "smart and taut . ",
 "human impulses that grew hideously twisted ",
 "the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . ",
 "the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture ",
 "'s the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . ",
 "terrific setpieces ",
 "the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and ",
 "chimes in on the grieving process and ",
 "warm , fuzzy feeling ",
 "formulaic equations ",
 "original nor terribly funny ",
 "is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination ",
 "can report that it is instead a cheap clich\u00e9 ",
 "like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors ",
 "chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",
 "genre gem ",
 "lost in the translation this time ",
 "traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ",
 "clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",
 "he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic ",
 "genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout ",
 "amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest ",
 "the terrifying message ",
 "the three leads produce adequate performances , ",
 "gives you an idea just how bad it was ",
 "surprisingly powerful and universal ",
 "unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles ",
 "coordinated his own dv poetry ",
 "are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ",
 "visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . ",
 "forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , ",
 "painful elegy ",
 "bogdanovich puts history in perspective ",
 "unadorned ",
 "to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience 's intelligence ",
 "a buoyant delivery ",
 ", and of telling a fascinating character 's story ",
 "but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . ",
 "the film 's messages of tolerance and diversity are n't particularly original ",
 "... have made the old boy 's characters more quick-witted than any english lit ",
 "will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere ",
 "as compelling or as believable ",
 "whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it 's as if it all happened only yesterday ",
 "are sometimes inexpressive ",
 "makes the grade as tawdry trash . ",
 "an appealing blend ",
 "the filmmaker would disagree ",
 "sequel-for-the-sake ",
 "has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . ",
 "that should be relegated to a dark video store corner ",
 "hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work ",
 "the cleverness , ",
 "that seems tailor ",
 "feel like three hours ",
 "spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . ",
 "a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you 're a struggling nobody . ",
 "this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",
 "technically ",
 "often shocking but ultimately worthwhile ",
 "by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course ",
 "the characters ' quirks and foibles never jell into charm ",
 "means to face your fears ",
 "girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy ",
 "is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . ",
 "a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock ",
 "that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material ",
 "the recording sessions are intriguing ",
 "clearly evident poverty and hardship ",
 "sleazy moralizing ",
 "a sharp script ",
 "character creations ",
 "jacobi , the most fluent of actors , ",
 "the irony is that this film 's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ",
 "brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",
 "fly with most intelligent viewers ",
 "the film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . ",
 "'s absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan ",
 "thrillers actually thrilled ",
 "as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor ",
 "a perceptive , good-natured movie . ",
 "it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",
 "it 's better suited for the history or biography channel , ",
 "someone who obviously knows nothing about crime ",
 "is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . ",
 "well-wrought story ",
 "is highly pleasurable ",
 "its make-believe promise of life ",
 "of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances ",
 "such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema ",
 "underrated professionals ",
 "the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",
 "too-frosty exterior ",
 "make up for a derivative plot ",
 "undernourished ",
 "sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i do n't see the point ",
 "sacrifices its promise ",
 "down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow ",
 "is a must for genre fans ",
 "a baffling subplot ",
 "featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",
 "the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it 's really well directed ",
 "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 . ",
 "most horrific movie experience ",
 "euphoria ",
 "it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . ",
 "the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film ",
 "display greatness ",
 "performances , great to look at , and funny ",
 "a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life ",
 "spectacularly outrageous ",
 "no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us ",
 "insomnia is one of the year 's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",
 "the butt of its own joke ",
 "contemptible ",
 "'s smooth and professional ",
 "the movie dragged on ",
 "feeble comedy . ",
 "that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue ",
 "third act miscalculation ",
 "stealing harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure ",
 "the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ",
 "is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",
 "too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . ",
 "every shot enhances the excellent performances ",
 "hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers ",
 "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 ",
 "high art ",
 "superhero ",
 "i saw this one ",
 "this rich and luscious ",
 "through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , ` if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . ' ",
 "the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year ",
 "without bludgeoning the audience over the head ",
 "unrelated shorts ",
 "bravo 's ",
 "has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne . ' ",
 "across as lame and sophomoric ",
 "slightly naughty , just-above-average off ",
 "totally lacking ",
 "touched by the film 's conviction ",
 "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 ? ",
 "bad soap opera ",
 "rich performances "
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