[
 "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 ",
 "enigma is well-made ",
 "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 . ",
 "the closest thing to the experience of space travel ",
 "lose their luster ",
 "reopens an interesting controversy and ",
 "competent , unpretentious entertainment ",
 "an effective portrait of a life in stasis ",
 "transcendent performance ",
 "so vivid ",
 "' rip-off ",
 "its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers ",
 "a rollicking good time for the most part ",
 "not funny performers ",
 "who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny ",
 "entering ",
 "and revolutionary spirit ",
 "of deft and subtle poetry ",
 "a buoyant delivery ",
 "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 ",
 "brainless ",
 "a good chance of being the big ",
 "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 . ",
 "like jimmy 's routines ",
 "is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . ",
 "all too predictable and far too cliched ",
 "hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . ",
 "such a flat , plodding picture ",
 "awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude ",
 "is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . ",
 "that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace ",
 "masterful british actor ian holm ",
 "it shows us a slice of life that 's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ",
 "action-adventure buffs ",
 "all the sibling rivalry and ",
 "treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going ",
 "about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time ",
 "so many red herrings , ",
 "expects something special but instead gets ( sci-fi ) rehash . ",
 "gave people seizures ",
 "has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes ",
 "wonderful ",
 "of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances ",
 "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 . ",
 "jaw-droppingly superficial ",
 "venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival ",
 "straight-ahead ",
 "'s really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type ",
 "'s a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug ",
 "scores a direct hit ",
 "an often intense character study ",
 "enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor ",
 "as a good old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit ",
 "godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . ",
 "no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild . ",
 "the acting , for the most part ",
 "the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor . ",
 "but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",
 "mr. schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . ",
 "this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . ",
 "is just the point ",
 "indie . ",
 "to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix 's ",
 "to remake sleepless in seattle again and again ",
 "ranks with the best of herzog 's works ",
 "unbelievable na\u00efvet\u00e9 and arbitrary flashbacks ",
 "with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt ",
 "so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker 's characteristic style . ",
 "disconcertingly slack ",
 "mindless action movie ",
 "delicate treatment ",
 "called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but ",
 "gets very ugly , very fast ",
 "begin with ",
 "hate yourself ",
 "this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . ",
 "by characters who are nearly impossible to care about ",
 "interesting look ",
 "beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama ",
 "lopez romantic comedy ",
 "as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within ",
 "doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves ",
 "could n't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ",
 "the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . ",
 "enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage ",
 "completely serviceable and quickly forgettable ",
 "dreamy and ",
 "the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 . ",
 "does n't bode well for the rest of it ",
 "much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : ",
 "comforting fantasies ",
 "the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious ",
 "sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening ",
 "severe body odor ",
 "in spite of all that he 's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic ",
 "your favorite pet get buried alive ",
 "only has about 25 minutes of decent material . ",
 "that 's apparently just what ( aniston ) has always needed to grow into a movie career ",
 "is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ",
 "visual delight ",
 "a terrific b movie -- ",
 "is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart ",
 "a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage `` be careful what you wish for '' is given a full workout . ",
 "stunning images and effects ",
 "appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome clich\u00e9 . ",
 "its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary ... ",
 "the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ",
 "well-timed explosion ",
 "the effort is sincere and the results are honest ",
 "effective in all its aspects ",
 ", and for the memorable character creations ",
 "'s weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids ",
 "moulin rouge ",
 "illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity . ",
 "as boring before i see this piece of crap again ",
 "you 'd swear you ",
 "walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked ",
 "an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale ",
 "probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises ",
 "a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men ",
 "is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem ",
 "to courage and happiness ",
 "a ton of laughs ",
 "rich in shadowy metaphor ",
 "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 ",
 "a whole lot ",
 "enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well ",
 "the ring never lets you off the hook . ",
 "emotional conviction ",
 "bubbly ",
 "an erotic thriller that ",
 "ca n't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company 's astonishing growth . ",
 "dramatically lackluster ",
 "they come , already having been recycled more times than i 'd care to count ",
 "rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . ",
 "the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , ",
 "a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay ",
 ", self-assured ",
 "( hayek ) throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , ",
 "odd , inexplicable and unpleasant ",
 "the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy ",
 "speaks for itself ",
 "zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that 's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , ",
 "seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it 's a sad , sick sight ",
 "you might want to check it out ",
 "the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . ",
 ", you 'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . ",
 "the threat implied in the title pok\u00e9mon 4ever is terrifying ",
 "in its own simplicity ",
 "is hereby given fair warning . ",
 "by an angel simplicity ",
 "dead ",
 "his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic ",
 "viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' ",
 "sweetness and vulnerability ",
 "reverent ",
 "celluloid heaven ",
 "real visual charge ",
 "animation back 30 years ",
 "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 ... ",
 "has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . ",
 "'s so not-at-all-good ",
 "all but spits out denzel washington 's fine performance in the title role . ",
 "polished , well-structured film . ",
 "an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair ",
 "no worse ",
 "has been written so well , that even a simple `` goddammit ",
 "'s fairly lame ",
 "overall , it 's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message ",
 "like a fragment of an underdone potato ",
 "crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies ",
 "interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side ",
 "amusements ",
 "a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive . ",
 "it 's not just a feel-good movie ",
 "you to give it a millisecond of thought ",
 "imaginatively mixed cast ",
 "almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like `` the addams family '' to everyone looking in ",
 "the character 's gripping humanity ",
 "a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor ",
 "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 ",
 "'s a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . ",
 "ultimately the story compels ",
 "to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today ",
 "it 's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . ",
 "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 ",
 "caper thrills ",
 "the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . ",
 "cowardly ",
 "little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors ",
 "makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , ",
 "slow and ponderous , ",
 "with grace and humor and gradually ",
 "the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work ",
 "elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",
 "more measured or polished production ",
 "a child 's interest and an adult 's patience ",
 "delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted ",
 "as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "dave barry 's popular book ",
 "leave you marveling at these guys ' superhuman capacity to withstand pain ",
 "the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and ",
 "not counting a few gross-out comedies i 've been trying to forget ",
 "is so bad , that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad . ",
 "well to cram earplugs ",
 "is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery ",
 "payne has created a beautiful canvas , ",
 "makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while ",
 "in by the sympathetic characters ",
 "turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable ",
 "up as the worst kind of hubristic folly ",
 "genuine narrative ",
 "is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . ",
 ", insightfully human ",
 "an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream ",
 "is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . ",
 "whirlwind ",
 "that assumes you are n't very bright ",
 "by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course ",
 "the biggest problem ",
 "absurd collection ",
 "er , bubbly ",
 "originality ",
 "lustrous polished ",
 "those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",
 "after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here ",
 "wears its empowerment ",
 "powerful look ",
 "left off the film 's predictable denouement ",
 "enough , but nothing new ",
 "the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos had n't blown them all up ",
 "that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin 's film serves up with style and empathy . ",
 "( toback 's ) fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",
 ", sometimes beautiful adaptation ",
 "none can equal ",
 "a bittersweet drama ",
 "with the ferocity of a frozen burrito ",
 "a disappointment ",
 "results from adhering to the messiness of true stories ",
 "grace that still leaves shockwaves ",
 "bluto blutarsky , we miss you . ",
 "delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story ",
 "the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and ",
 "i like all four of the lead actors a lot and ",
 "and it is n't that funny . ",
 "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 ",
 "are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations ",
 "a barf bag ",
 "has little insight into the historical period and its artists ",
 "technically superb ",
 "a movie , a vampire soap opera that does n't make much ",
 "succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . ",
 "is more likely to induce sleep than fright ",
 "like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . ",
 "watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humor and reinforcement of stereotypes ",
 "every bit as distinctive ",
 "is as padded as allen 's jelly belly ",
 "is sure to win viewers ' hearts ",
 "see the forest for the trees ",
 "vibrant and intoxicating ",
 "about as humorous ",
 "was particularly funny ",
 "is visually smart , ",
 "can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms ' anti- castro ",
 "might add -- slice of comedic bliss ",
 "a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds ",
 "have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching ",
 "at its best ",
 "may be the performances of their careers ",
 "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 ",
 "worst excesses ",
 "ice age wo n't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i 'm giving it a strong thumbs up . ",
 "plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ",
 "even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . ",
 "a bit cold and ",
 "is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals ",
 "'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 . ",
 "exciting and well-paced ",
 "unrelentingly grim -- and ",
 "... may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . ",
 "do well to cram earplugs in their ears and ",
 "clever angle ",
 "set out to lampoon , anyway . ",
 "sweet cinderella story ",
 ", she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . ",
 "is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",
 "dignified ",
 "by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters ",
 "ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences ",
 "class warfare ",
 "priggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . ",
 "stuffy and ",
 "into feel-good territory ",
 "2002 's first great film ",
 "is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",
 "a lasting impression ",
 "funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness ",
 "divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure ",
 "seems to want to be a character study , but apparently ",
 "is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . ",
 "the bland songs ",
 "hitler 's ",
 "finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers ",
 "the best advice is : ` scooby ' do n't . ",
 "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 . ",
 "winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it ",
 "lacks ",
 "i do n'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 . ",
 "also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues ",
 "edge ",
 "might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ",
 ", one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . ",
 "in practically every facet of inept filmmaking ",
 "like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough ",
 "frailty fascinates ",
 "captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ",
 "do not fit ",
 "mesmerizing one ",
 "robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favor of an altogether darker side . ",
 "inert sci-fi action thriller ",
 "limited chemistry ",
 "this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . ",
 "'ll find in this dreary mess . ",
 "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 . ",
 "do n't have a clue on the park . ",
 "an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine ",
 "worse , ",
 "kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and ",
 "utterly charming ",
 "a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 ",
 "-- sadly -- ",
 "disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or ",
 "soul-stirring ",
 "the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . ",
 "the rat-a-tat energy ",
 "goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice ",
 "knows its classical music ",
 "cold , ",
 "observant , unfussily poetic meditation ",
 "so insanely dysfunctional ",
 "audience-pleaser ",
 "that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey ",
 "it is entertaining on an inferior level . ",
 "beautiful paean ",
 "take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , ",
 "a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller ",
 "a nicely understated expression of the grief ",
 "fluffy neo-noir ",
 "never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting ",
 "limps along ",
 "becoming irritating ",
 "spectacular ",
 "cinematic razzle-dazzle ",
 "surprisingly uninvolving ",
 "savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . ",
 "a diverse and astonishingly articulate ",
 "try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags ",
 "the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . ",
 "banality and hypocrisy ",
 "an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they ",
 "maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies ",
 "a bad-movie way ",
 "tell you that there 's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it ",
 "'s a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish ",
 "they will have a showdown , but , ",
 "is just sooooo tired ",
 "notice the flaws ",
 "more to think about after the final frame ",
 "this marvelous film ",
 ": stallion of the cimarron is a winner . ",
 "from the classics ",
 "this clever and very satisfying picture ",
 "the better film 's ability to make its subject interesting to those who are n't part of its supposed target audience ",
 "this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . ",
 "an almost palpable sense of intensity ",
 "the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions ",
 "at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . ",
 "stale and ",
 "loved ",
 "a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist ",
 "love , longing ",
 "written , flatly , by david kendall ",
 "will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle . ",
 ", tiresome nature ",
 "the needlessly poor quality ",
 "splendid singing ",
 "with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit ",
 "twohy 's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels ",
 "( hayek ) throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto ",
 "like mere splashing around ",
 "ill-conceived and ",
 "is that it 's a brazenly misguided project ",
 "shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary ",
 "becomes a testament to faith ",
 "a mess as this one ",
 "a very capable nailbiter . ",
 "this much imagination ",
 "it completely contradicts everything kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art ",
 "that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book ",
 "excruciating ",
 "savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers ",
 "'s not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . ",
 "whimsical and relevant today ",
 "makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while . ",
 "`` simone '' is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . ",
 "the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . ",
 "on a positive ( if tragic ) note ",
 "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 ",
 "the best actors ",
 "the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) ",
 "with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut ",
 "( 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 . ",
 "all works out ",
 "but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . ",
 "the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . ",
 "color and depth , and ",
 "want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes ",
 "to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing ",
 "story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks `` the four feathers '' ",
 "hard , endearing , caring , warm . ",
 "comeback ",
 "unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and ",
 "the best and most mature comedy ",
 "to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ",
 "can get past the taboo subject matter ",
 "straight-shooting family film ",
 "his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival ",
 "group articulates a flood of emotion . ",
 "so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work ",
 "it pretends to investigate ",
 "there 's a plethora of characters in this picture , ",
 "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 . ",
 "resemble the shapeless ",
 "i did n't particularly like e.t. the first time i saw it as a young boy ",
 "by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious ",
 "danis ",
 "a weird and wonderful comedy . ",
 "comic energy ",
 "sluggish pacing ",
 "is clever and funny , ",
 "walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost ",
 "hide new secretions ",
 "is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . ",
 "any real emotional impact ",
 "serves as a workable primer for the region 's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . ",
 "o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing ",
 "the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting ",
 "is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director ",
 "highly entertaining ",
 "adams just copies from various sources ",
 ", washington has a sure hand . ",
 "wo n't like looking at it ",
 "works spectacularly well ... a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride ",
 "dramatic enough to sustain interest ",
 "somewhat tired ",
 "your first instinct is to duck ",
 "a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` ",
 "has none of the crackle of `` fatal attraction '' , `` 9 1/2 weeks '' , or even `` indecent proposal '' , and feels more like lyne 's stolid remake of `` lolita '' ",
 "a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism ",
 "acted and directed ",
 ", revolution # 9 proves to be a compelling ",
 "that the less charitable might describe as a castrated ",
 "that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . ",
 "rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies ",
 "adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",
 "intelligent romantic thriller ",
 "feel like three hours ",
 "really won my heart ",
 "a fanciful motion picture ",
 "a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . ",
 "dicey screen material ",
 "a timid , soggy near miss . ",
 "'s already done way too often ",
 "quietly hopeful ",
 "this ready-made midnight movie probably wo n't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it 's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun ",
 "though there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",
 "gives ample opportunity ",
 "one of its strengths ",
 "skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . ",
 "'s a sit down and ponder affair ",
 "a great cast and ",
 "like ",
 "would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at ",
 "should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come ",
 "is definitely worth seeing ",
 "with attractive men ",
 "maryam is more timely now than ever . ",
 "a tremendous piece ",
 "is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults ",
 "loses its ability to shock and amaze ",
 "thriller junk ",
 "mumbo jumbo ",
 "she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , ",
 "does n't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . ",
 "contemptuous of the single female population ",
 "a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design . ",
 "director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film 's music than to the story line ; what 's best about drumline is its energy ",
 "painfully flat ",
 ", manipulative ",
 "a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",
 "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 . ",
 "the direction is intelligently accomplished ",
 "to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out ",
 "worse than bland ",
 "a movie ever could be ",
 "if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . ",
 "that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film ",
 "see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway ",
 "most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes ",
 "no sense of pride or shame ",
 "effortlessly draws you in ",
 "summer audience ",
 "buoyant feeling ",
 "has not a trace of humanity or empathy ",
 "the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",
 "remains ",
 ", it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",
 "need of some trims ",
 "the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste . ",
 "pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure ",
 "effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself ",
 "a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every clich\u00e9 of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . ",
 "cry for your money back ",
 "gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek or ",
 "as i 'm the one that i want ",
 "everyone 's ",
 "which become strangely impersonal and abstract ",
 "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 . ",
 "an irresistible blend of warmth and humor ",
 "'s supposed to be a romantic comedy ",
 "a summer of good stuff ",
 "as the scruffy sands of its titular community ",
 "there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life ",
 "is one of those rare pictures ",
 "are lukewarm and quick to pass . ",
 "wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story 's morals . ",
 "keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity ",
 "' and ` realistic ' ",
 "me grinning ",
 "seamless ",
 "give blade fans another look at wesley snipes ' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once ",
 "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 . ",
 "sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history ",
 "as beautifully shaped ",
 "one terrific score and attitude to spare ",
 "violent and ",
 "works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever ",
 "with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography ",
 "the action looks fake ",
 "demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but ",
 "skip this turd ",
 "no teeth ",
 "even with its $ 50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",
 "a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . ",
 "( 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 . ",
 "illogical ",
 "what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ",
 "a sad , sordid universe ",
 "the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape ",
 "matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . ",
 "comparatively sane and healthy ",
 "like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours ",
 "brutally dry satire ",
 "modest amusements ",
 "there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout ",
 "energetic and sweetly ",
 "lots of boring talking heads , etc . ",
 "a lazy exercise ",
 "a class with spike lee 's masterful ",
 "seldom hammy ",
 "take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . ",
 "frank capra 's classic ",
 "it 's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original . ",
 "a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",
 "altered ",
 "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 ",
 "i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign ",
 "approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline ",
 "even if you do n'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 ",
 "has never been smoother or more confident . ",
 "tolerable-to-adults ",
 "mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . ",
 "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 ? ",
 "the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . ",
 "such a big job ",
 "is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing ",
 "that both thrills the eye and ",
 "it belongs on the big screen ",
 "ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation ",
 "rated eee for excitement . ",
 "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 ",
 ", there is n't much there here . ",
 "that disconnects every 10 seconds ",
 "a fairly irresistible package ",
 "you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy 's holes ",
 "unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles ",
 "that 's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline ",
 "the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart ",
 "twice as bestial but half as funny ",
 "humor ",
 "feeble comedy . ",
 "great marching bands ",
 "has no point and goes nowhere ",
 "it 's the very definition of epic adventure . ",
 "is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . ",
 "bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . ",
 "the dullest science fiction ",
 "humdrum ",
 "sometimes hilarious ) ",
 "the human race splitting in two ",
 "give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip ",
 "nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here . ",
 "perfectly clear ",
 "snobbery ",
 "instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources , bad mixture ",
 "a remarkable and novel ",
 "a movie that understands characters must come first ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "incoherence ",
 "pulling on heartstrings ",
 "seen in that light ",
 "natured ",
 "wazoo and sets ",
 "its one-sidedness ",
 "for dance completists only . ",
 "septic tank ",
 "a cold , calculated exercise ",
 "its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism ",
 "brave , uninhibited performances ",
 "intimidated by both her subject matter ",
 "has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . ",
 "'s a drag how nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding ",
 "perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters ",
 ", does not work . ",
 "the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian ",
 "a strict reality ",
 "a fascinating glimpse of urban life and ",
 "absolutely and completely ridiculous and ",
 "looking for astute observations and coming up blank ",
 "fling gags at it ",
 "crisp framing , ",
 "wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance ",
 "i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing . ",
 "that efforts toward closure only open new wounds ",
 "the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theaters for it ",
 "'re left with a sour taste in your mouth ",
 "it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek ",
 "a great performance and a reminder of dickens ' grandeur ",
 "would know what to make of this italian freakshow ",
 "his clamorous approach ",
 "the worst sin ",
 "has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . ",
 "a wholesome fantasy ",
 "essentially ruined -- or ",
 "a fun adventure movie ",
 "come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated ",
 "with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese ",
 "stand tall ",
 "jagger , stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . ",
 "drown out ",
 "my friend david cross would call it , ` hungry-man portions of bad ' ",
 "has no point and ",
 "figures prominently in this movie , and ",
 ", you will enjoy seeing how both evolve ",
 "strange and beautiful film . ",
 "full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",
 "devastated ",
 "both deserve better . ",
 "30 seconds of plot ",
 "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 ",
 "gives the lie to many clich\u00e9s and showcases a group of dedicated artists ",
 "spends a bit too much time ",
 "if it is n't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers ",
 "of one unstable man ",
 "directed the film from the back of a taxicab ",
 "a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ",
 "clunky on the screen ",
 "ill-advised and poorly ",
 "as a reverie about memory and regret ",
 "'s hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . ",
 "'s affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . ",
 "sloppily ",
 "random , superficial humor ",
 "dead-end distaste ",
 "that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture ",
 "confusing on one level or another ",
 "went over my head or -- considering just ",
 "an insane comic undertaking ",
 "destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage ",
 "stylistic austerity and forcefulness ",
 "the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware ",
 "i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . ",
 "shabby script ",
 "already mentioned ",
 "clueless and inept ",
 "laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . ",
 "intriguing ",
 "gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense ",
 "... built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . ",
 "limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action ",
 "its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and ",
 "define a generation ",
 "appetizing ",
 "a remarkably cohesive whole , ",
 "'s a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii ",
 "wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits ",
 "makes the grade as tawdry trash ",
 "the level of marginal competence ",
 "also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction ",
 "no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us ",
 "macaroni and cheese ",
 "to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally ",
 "die-hard french film connoisseurs ",
 "too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots ",
 "limp biscuit ",
 "that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence ",
 "has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ",
 "plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 ",
 "terrific ",
 "lovably ",
 "upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product ",
 "bounces ",
 "an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them ",
 "they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood ",
 "made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . ",
 "extraordinary journalism ",
 "liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances ",
 "makes it a party worth attending ",
 "harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",
 "a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long ",
 "( and beautifully edited ) ",
 "the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country ",
 "goes down easy ",
 "a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability ",
 "charming ",
 "twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style ",
 "radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film ",
 "the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . ",
 "change watching such a character , ",
 "in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year ",
 "signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",
 "deep or substantial ",
 "'s not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",
 "warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level ",
 "the film itself is small and shriveled ",
 "a predictable , manipulative stinker ",
 "an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people ",
 "a low , smoky and inviting sizzle ",
 "felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them ",
 "admire ... ",
 "nothing overly original ",
 "nicole holofcenter , the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy does n't wrap the proceedings up neatly ",
 "jolts the laughs ",
 "incredible storyline ",
 "a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation ",
 "has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . ",
 "marvelous documentary touches ",
 "die for ",
 "a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead ",
 "right down the reality drain ",
 "collision ",
 "home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . ",
 "... a low rate annie featuring some kid who ca n't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",
 "markedly inactive ",
 "undistinguished ",
 "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 ",
 "extended , open-ended poem ",
 "unimpeachable ",
 "an ambitious ` what if ? ' ",
 "the horror ",
 "this charming , thought-provoking new york fest ",
 "this is a truly , truly bad movie . ",
 "to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences ",
 "a horrible , 99-minute ",
 "goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , ",
 "runs 163 minutes ",
 "of the intelligent , well-made b movie ",
 "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 ",
 "is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another ",
 "overly familiar ",
 "a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates ",
 "the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing ",
 "to the world trade center tragedy ",
 "nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , ",
 "marks a modest if encouraging return to form ",
 "crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy ",
 "of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up ",
 "hard to resist his enthusiasm ",
 "neil burger here succeeded in ... making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present ",
 "capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere ",
 "choppy and sloppy affair ",
 "falls far short ",
 "it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . ",
 "a comedy ",
 "despite the film 's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . ",
 "a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . ",
 ", doing its namesake proud ",
 "if occasionally flawed , ",
 "created a provocative ",
 "fairly straightforward ",
 "was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man ",
 "an obvious copy of one of the best films ever made , how could it not be ? ",
 "third-rate ",
 "not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . ",
 "the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it ",
 "heartwarming yarn ",
 "'s also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . ",
 "that interest attal and gainsbourg ",
 "that rare animal ",
 "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 ",
 "gets under our skin and draws us in long ",
 "discovered , indulged in ",
 "riveting and surprisingly romantic ",
 "the viewer 's patience with slow pacing and ",
 "are served with a hack script ",
 "this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment . ",
 "in all the right ways ",
 "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 ",
 "hopkins ",
 "rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys ",
 "did not figure out a coherent game ",
 "the most exciting action films ",
 "suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",
 "most appealing movies ",
 "orchestrating ",
 "mediocre exercise ",
 "espn ",
 "only one of the best gay love stories ever made ",
 "o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . ",
 "'s nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is ",
 "poetry and passion ",
 "plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on `` the simpsons '' has . ",
 "is astonishing . ",
 "most resonant film since the killer ",
 "wonderful tale ",
 "peaked ",
 "with very little story or character ",
 "comfort ",
 ", despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , ",
 "an appealing blend ",
 "its electronic expression through cyber culture ",
 "overwhelming pleasure ",
 "great scares and a good surprise ending ",
 "gooding is the energetic frontman ",
 "it transporting is that it 's also one of the smartest ",
 "'s got as potent a topic as ever here ",
 "a generic bloodbath that often becomes ",
 "a solid formula ",
 "spirals downward ",
 "approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",
 "into heaven ",
 "right itself precisely when you think it 's in danger of going wrong ",
 "has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star ",
 "in the right direction ",
 "has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim ",
 "is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition ",
 "burns out ",
 "airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe ",
 "upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming ",
 "emotionally malleable ",
 "funny or ",
 "hackneyed and meanspirited ",
 "an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",
 "to smash its face in ",
 "compelling investigation ",
 "demented in a good way ",
 "an astonishingly witless script ",
 "it 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . ",
 "barker movie ",
 "charms ",
 "to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face ",
 "is throwing up his hands in surrender , ",
 "a cleverly ",
 "a slice of american pie hijinks ",
 "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 . ",
 "a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks ",
 "the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . ",
 "appears not to have been edited at all ",
 "this overlong infomercial ",
 "there 's a heavy stench of ` been there , done that ' hanging over the film . ",
 "'s hard not to be carried away ",
 "killer ",
 "... have made the old boy 's characters more quick-witted than any english lit ",
 "it is thought-provoking . ",
 "thrown-together feel ",
 "encompasses many more paths ",
 "'s funny , as the old saying goes , because it 's true . ",
 "snl '' has-been ",
 "you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned ",
 "chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions ",
 "it weirdly appealing ",
 "deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson ",
 "a bad imitation ",
 "looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",
 "the best case ",
 "sade achieves the near-impossible ",
 "but what 's nice is that there 's a casual intelligence that permeates the script . ",
 "to rank with its worthy predecessors ",
 "makes up for with its heart ",
 "of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics ",
 "a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at ",
 "is both a snore and utter tripe . ",
 "an mtv , sugar hysteria , and ",
 "` fatal attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set ",
 "unbearably lame . ",
 ", entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment ",
 "what makes it worth the trip to the theater ",
 "stiff or just plain bad ",
 "... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' ",
 "it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not ",
 "petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars ",
 "the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts ",
 "compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen ",
 "a change in expression ",
 "sorvino ",
 "is ) looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara is n't even halfway through ",
 "with this one too ",
 "blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop ",
 "scratch a hole in your head ",
 "will find it more than capable of rewarding them ",
 "too convoluted ",
 "have made for better drama ",
 "bloodbath ",
 "garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man ",
 "hopefully inspire action ",
 "three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut ",
 "you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did ",
 "made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention ",
 "deep deceptions ",
 "of a good movie ye who enter here ",
 "is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . ",
 "michel ",
 "clearly a manipulative film ",
 "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 ",
 "a celebrated wonder ",
 "he does display an original talent ",
 "what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . ",
 "austerity and forcefulness ",
 "brilliant motion picture ",
 "thinking man ",
 "the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , ` hungry-man portions of bad ' . ",
 "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 ",
 "touching and funny ",
 "sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature ",
 "like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge ",
 "tootsie knockoff . ",
 "is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once ... ",
 "suspend your disbelief here and now , or you 'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . ",
 "too much of a plunge ",
 "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 . ",
 "a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week ",
 "amusing , let alone funny ",
 "gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . ",
 "although this idea is `` new '' ",
 "distasteful and ",
 "make ` cherish ' a very good ( but not great ) movie . ",
 "in ( this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot ",
 "some good material ",
 "fails to arrive at any satisfying destination ",
 "unholy mess ",
 "have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ",
 "jumps around ",
 "is almost certainly ",
 "admire ",
 "trashy teen-sleaze equivalent ",
 "an important movie , ",
 "directed with sensitivity and skill ",
 "winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",
 "a witty ",
 "louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense ",
 "spectacle ",
 "more re-creations of all those famous moments ",
 "krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone ",
 "rare family movie ",
 "can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise ",
 ", amusing and unpredictable ",
 "dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer ",
 "eccentrics ",
 "of her life with the imagery in her paintings ",
 "dazzling pop entertainment ",
 "( including a knockout of a closing line ) ",
 "punch and depth ",
 "a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise ",
 "pays tribute ",
 "offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing ",
 "might be with a large dose of painkillers ",
 "agonizing , catch-22 ",
 "this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big , dumb action movie . ",
 "fidel castro ",
 "literary detective story ",
 "charlotte sometimes is a gem . ",
 "is as difficult for the audience to take as it ",
 "took of the family vacation ",
 "the most original ",
 "dramatic urgency ",
 "in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie ",
 "most incoherent ",
 "figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats ",
 "the best script ",
 "like this movie ",
 "the drama discloses almost nothing . ",
 "eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch ",
 "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 ",
 "the sheer beauty of his images ",
 "the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , ",
 "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 . ",
 "dismember ",
 "plain lurid ",
 "may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy ",
 "to good actors ",
 "to feel funny and light ",
 "considerable charm ",
 "worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles ",
 "a masterpeice ",
 "to bowling you over ",
 ", claustrophobic ",
 "without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ",
 "does n't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain ",
 "clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs ",
 "a hilarious place to visit ",
 "wryly amusing ",
 "encourage ",
 "that this film 's cast is uniformly superb ",
 "quite endearing . ",
 "thrill you , touch you and ",
 "the bizarre is credible ",
 "is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ",
 "nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ",
 "the dorkier aspects ",
 ", save your disgust and your indifference ",
 "immensely ambitious ",
 "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 . ",
 "our most flamboyant female comics ",
 "at least funny ",
 "fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious ",
 "of an especially well-executed television movie ",
 "this gets us in trouble ",
 "use of his particular talents ",
 "lethargically paced parable of renewal . ",
 "you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ",
 "and engaging film ",
 "ghetto ",
 "robbed ",
 "'ll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture ",
 "to accomplish ",
 "deceit and murder ",
 "its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . ",
 "a pretty good execution ",
 "captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . '' ",
 "it 's tremendously moving ",
 "unholy ",
 "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 ",
 "was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances ",
 "it 's an entertaining movie ",
 "like a change in ( herzog 's ) personal policy ",
 "watching these two actors play ",
 "fascination , and ",
 ", boredom never takes hold . ",
 "veers into corny sentimentality , ",
 "some nice twists ",
 "the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus ",
 "drags it ",
 "maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , ",
 "often intense character study ",
 "irony ",
 ", festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",
 "is dark , brooding and slow , ",
 "is also a creative urge ",
 "wives are worse ",
 "with its own solemn insights ",
 ", `` far from heaven '' is a masterpiece . ",
 "amoral assassin ",
 "as obvious as telling a country skunk ",
 "-- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man ",
 "clarity ",
 "find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script 's bad ideas and awkwardness . ",
 "is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines ",
 "any insight ",
 "this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . ",
 "a wonderful , ghastly film . ",
 "hollow tribute ",
 "weirdly appealing ",
 "assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni 's pinocchio -- ",
 "in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . ",
 "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 . ",
 "tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run ",
 "outside his grasp ",
 "was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive ",
 "could n't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ",
 "ca n't quite conceal that there 's nothing resembling a spine here ",
 "to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation ",
 "that even tunney ca n't save ",
 "outstanding ",
 "with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do ",
 "love to have their kids ",
 "nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history ",
 "fun and enjoyable ",
 "the son of the bride 's humor is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . ",
 "real narrative logic ",
 "in unexpected ways , touching ",
 "an underdone potato ",
 "truly edgy ",
 "where nothing 's happening ",
 "all about anakin ... and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect ",
 "wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture ",
 "respects ",
 "considerable ",
 "will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . ",
 "refreshingly ",
 "to perform ",
 "a tasty performance ",
 "allegiance to chekhov ",
 "a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues ",
 "locales ",
 "cinematic experience ",
 "bad soap opera ",
 "enthusiastic ",
 "choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary ",
 "holm does his sly , intricate magic , ",
 "conjured up more coming-of-age stories ",
 "the film is not entirely successful ",
 "remotely probing or penetrating . ",
 ", and ",
 "hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful ",
 "sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure ",
 "an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama ",
 "there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i would n't be interested in knowing any of them personally . ",
 "deserves a place of honor next to nanook ",
 "old-fashioned scary movie ",
 "infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion ",
 "in the process comes out looking like something wholly original ",
 "real humor ",
 "successful adaptation ",
 "mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady ",
 "shimmeringly lovely ",
 "the third feels limited by its short running time ",
 "a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish ",
 "someone who obviously knows nothing about crime ",
 "interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy ",
 "an ease ",
 "need of a scented bath ",
 ", excruciatingly tedious ",
 "red dragon '' never cuts corners . ",
 "texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , ",
 "a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace ",
 "our reality tv obsession , ",
 "empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . ",
 "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 ",
 "your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects ",
 "a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin ",
 "a fresh infusion of creativity ",
 "of control on a long patch of black ice ",
 "another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie ",
 "a reprieve ",
 "deserved co-winner ",
 "story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre ",
 "too erotic ",
 "the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi 's now-cliched vampire accent ",
 "labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . ",
 "'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 ",
 "protagonist ",
 "may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it 's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless ",
 "daring ",
 "i might add -- slice of comedic bliss ",
 "have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury ",
 "wasted minutes of sandler ",
 "stunningly trite ",
 "bitter ",
 "impossible to claim that it is `` based on a true story '' with a straight face ",
 "harrison ford low ",
 "bouncy ",
 "a documentary that works ",
 "a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian ",
 "satisfying destination ",
 "comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild ",
 "such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ",
 "'s a compelling and horrifying story ",
 "close to real life ",
 "big , dumb action movie ",
 "natural sportsmen ",
 "the comic touch ",
 "'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 . ",
 "well-thought stunts ",
 "lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery ",
 "with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective ",
 "the lengths ",
 "will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ",
 "a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off ",
 "constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . ",
 "sons , loyalty and duty ",
 "the barriers finally prove to be too great ",
 "for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable ",
 "uplifter . ",
 "'s willing to express his convictions ",
 "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 . ",
 "amusing and ",
 "inside information ",
 "'s apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . ",
 "does n't have anything really interesting to say . ",
 "fast-paced and ",
 "putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film ",
 "resourceful ",
 "not particularly scary ",
 "eighth-grader ",
 "to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them ",
 "there are some laughs in this movie ",
 "way to entertain or inspire its viewers ",
 "takes care ",
 "bibbidy-bobbidi-bland . ",
 "to the phrase ` fatal script error ",
 "can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . ",
 "gets old quickly . ",
 "aspired ",
 "how good ",
 "a clever ",
 "is really all about performances ",
 "low-budget , video-shot ",
 ", it 's as good as you remember . ",
 "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 . ",
 "this rich and luscious ",
 "causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . ",
 "it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , ",
 "a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force ",
 "relationship and ",
 "he delivers fascinating psychological fare ",
 "flops ",
 "you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "of a love affair ",
 "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 . ",
 "pushes its agenda too forcefully ",
 "that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis ",
 "edgy camera work ",
 "disingenuous ",
 "damned compelling ",
 "ideas and wry comic mayhem ",
 "great impression ",
 "consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and ",
 "may have many agendas ",
 "slopped ` em together here ",
 "hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction ",
 "does n't even qualify as a spoof of such ",
 "the lazy material and the finished product 's unshapely look ",
 "big-hearted and ",
 "plummets ",
 "it 's not very interesting . ",
 "by sending the audience straight to hell ",
 "terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it ",
 "warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer ",
 "rare treat ",
 "lackadaisical ",
 "gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . ' ",
 "girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . ",
 "ponderous and pretentious endeavor ",
 "with passion and energy ",
 "you 'll want things to work out ",
 "director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place ",
 "buoyant energy level ",
 "accomplishes so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough ",
 "low-key romantic comedy ",
 "are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama ",
 "the film 's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing ",
 "'s fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ",
 "touches smartly and wistfully ",
 "... stylistically , the movie is a disaster . ",
 "that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as ",
 "they fascinate in their recklessness . ",
 ", solid storytelling . ",
 "the most edgy piece ",
 "may not be a straightforward bio ",
 "who cares ? ) . ",
 "'s a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . ",
 "'s its first sign of trouble ",
 "patience , respect and affection ",
 "a film that 's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . ",
 "'s a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas ",
 "is certainly amusing ",
 "so lackluster ",
 "that trademark grin of his -- ",
 "are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid . ",
 "this thing works on no level whatsoever for me . ",
 "his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles ",
 "fashioning an engrossing entertainment out ",
 "( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull ",
 "the movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ",
 "is not edward burns ' best film ",
 "historical truth and realism ",
 "a crisp psychological drama ( and ) ",
 "their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . ",
 "the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able '' project ",
 "his excellent cast ",
 "has nothing else to watch ",
 "fast-moving and cheerfully ",
 "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 . ",
 "its heartfelt concern ",
 "solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh 's best films , `` erin brockovich , '' `` out of sight '' and `` ocean 's eleven , '' never were . ",
 "has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . ",
 "its intelligence and intensity ",
 "of the ugly american ",
 "rather frightening ",
 "a bloated plot ",
 "good natured ",
 "a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast ",
 "more often than not hits the bullseye ",
 "intermezzo strain ",
 "a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , ",
 "not to have been edited at all ",
 "this film 's impressive performances and adept direction ",
 "it 's a brazenly misguided project ",
 "with considerable appeal ",
 "unrelated shorts ",
 "it was at least funny ",
 "dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and ",
 "frailty '' starts out like a typical bible killer story ",
 "switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s ",
 "worth a look as a curiosity ",
 "amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing ",
 "have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material ",
 "sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . ",
 "been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos ",
 "america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony ",
 "pretentious types ",
 "bitter nor sweet ",
 "it never comes close to being either funny or scary ",
 "an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people ",
 "an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion ",
 "so perfect ",
 "static set ups , not much camera movement ",
 "a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer ",
 "humorless , self-conscious art drivel ",
 "... in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it does n't disappoint . ",
 "ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man ",
 "barry 's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile ",
 "the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes ",
 "marveled ",
 "has moments of inspired humor ",
 "to seek our tears , our sympathies ",
 "paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age ",
 "constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey ",
 "most basic ",
 "it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive ",
 "amusing from time ",
 "the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast ",
 "while cherish does n't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller ",
 "this sad , compulsive life ",
 "if i stay positive ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "'s probably not easy to make such a worthless film ... ",
 "a remarkable new trick ",
 "forced drama ",
 "manages not only ",
 "journalistically dubious , ",
 "meaning in relationships or work ",
 "happily ",
 "this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that does n't reveal even a hint of artifice . ",
 "ultimately that 's what makes it worth a recommendation ",
 "is still a cinematic touchstone . ",
 "this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ",
 "could feel my eyelids ... getting ... very ... heavy ",
 "a delightful , if minor , pastry ",
 "local flavor ",
 "please the eye ",
 "a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . ",
 "lazy , miserable and smug . ",
 "an imitation movie ",
 "apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",
 "love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , ",
 "an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere ",
 "opulent ",
 "ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe ",
 "a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving ",
 "inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot ",
 "deflated ",
 "the el cheapo margaritas ",
 "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 . ",
 ", the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",
 "a struggling nobody ",
 "does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad ",
 "welcome step ",
 "an unfortunate title ",
 "since it does n't take itself so deadly seriously ",
 "numerous , world-renowned filmmakers ",
 "show-stoppingly hilarious , but ",
 "the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people ",
 "feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs ",
 "'s a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . ",
 "enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentary . ",
 "jarring , new-agey tone ",
 "a movie about the power of poetry and passion ",
 "often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ",
 "a slam-bang extravaganza ",
 "by movies ' end you 'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others ",
 "you reach the finale ",
 "that made mamet 's `` house of games '' and last fall 's `` heist '' so much fun ",
 "dullest tangents ",
 "he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . ",
 "is a successful one . ",
 "all add up to a satisfying crime drama . ",
 "acquire the fast-paced contemporary society ",
 "this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... ",
 "of visual charm ",
 "messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments ",
 "with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought ",
 "suspenseful clich\u00e9 ",
 "kids-cute sentimentality ",
 "supermarket tabloids ",
 "boisterous and utterly charming ",
 "utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story ",
 "does n't add up to much . ",
 "a fluid , no-nonsense authority ",
 "tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ",
 "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 ",
 "the pay-off is negligible ",
 "this arrogant richard pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny ",
 "a wild comedy ",
 "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 . ",
 "emotional heart ",
 "butterflies that die ",
 "essentially awkward version ",
 "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 ",
 "against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except ",
 ", sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",
 "the concept is a hoot . ",
 "b\u00e9art and berling are both superb , while huppert ... is magnificent . ",
 "to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage ",
 "its dying ",
 "been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant ",
 "rollicking dark humor ",
 "fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera ",
 "at how much we care about the story ",
 "play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ",
 "putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank ",
 "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 ",
 "has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt ",
 "is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . ",
 "so much crypt mist in the brain ",
 "are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ",
 "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 . ",
 "secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting ",
 "a summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . ",
 "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 . ",
 "was a freshman fluke ",
 "all the best possible ways ",
 "are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . ",
 "ends up being neither ",
 "well-characterized ",
 "the stale plot and pornographic way ",
 "expects something special but ",
 "like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series ",
 "they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half ",
 "a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you ",
 "it 's not too fast and not too slow . ",
 "a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise ",
 "achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation ",
 "faulty ",
 "timeless spectacle ",
 "would n't want to live waydowntown ",
 "rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ",
 "the qualities that made the first film so special ",
 "a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick ",
 "worn-out ",
 "muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through ",
 "comprehend the chasm of knowledge that 's opened between them ",
 "almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and ",
 "the screenplay falls somewhat short ",
 "is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called ` comedy ' and not laugh once . ",
 "like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing ",
 "pot ",
 "you 'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . ",
 "a fully developed story ",
 "spiritless , silly and monotonous ",
 "she can act ",
 "during sunset ",
 "refreshing . ",
 "elevated by it -- the kind of movie ",
 "filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard ",
 "that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note ",
 "stupid americans ",
 ", organic character work ",
 "old world war ",
 "gondry 's direction is adequate ... but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman 's script ",
 ", but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ",
 "with their fathers ",
 "is strong as always . ",
 "a dullard ",
 "a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse ",
 "whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character ",
 "in the translation ... another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise ",
 "can report that it is instead a cheap clich\u00e9 ",
 "he allows nothing to get in the way ",
 "went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no. 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . ",
 "good-time shenanigans ",
 "the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light ",
 "it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . ",
 "something hip ",
 "a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two ",
 "surprises ",
 "an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle ",
 "'s surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . ",
 "if allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself ",
 "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 . ",
 "an already obscure demographic ",
 "making up for any flaws that come later ",
 "is hilarious ",
 "mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty ",
 "annoying rather than charming ",
 "remarkably accessible and haunting ",
 "for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters ",
 "you see this film you 'll know too ",
 "with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling ",
 "cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera . ",
 "sandler ",
 "technical flaws ",
 "the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work ",
 "clich\u00e9s , depression and bad alternative music ",
 "burns ' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , ",
 "too thin ",
 "rewritten , and ",
 "takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : ",
 "vulgar , sexist , racist humor ",
 "found writer-director mitch davis 's wall of kitsch hard going ",
 "girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy ",
 "the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . ",
 "standoffish to everyone else ",
 "is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen ",
 "bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of `` his girl friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes ",
 "as it is flawed ",
 "a sweet , charming tale ",
 "one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director ",
 "musical passion ",
 "lady ",
 "like all of egoyan 's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . ",
 "is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . ",
 "'s immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do ",
 "suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , ",
 "to remember ",
 "uninteresting , unlikeable people ",
 "jabs ",
 "clear point ",
 "'s a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",
 "what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . ",
 "with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery ",
 "that never quite goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy ",
 ", paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",
 "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 . ",
 "satisfy the boom-bam crowd ",
 "feeling a part of its grand locations ",
 "achieving some honest insight ",
 "surprisingly entertaining ",
 "of too many story lines ",
 "hugh grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . ",
 "ai n't art ",
 "why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ? ",
 "is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness ",
 "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 . ",
 "angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence ",
 "sounds promising ",
 ", we need agile performers ",
 "it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes ",
 "so dull ",
 "viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting ",
 "it 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be . ",
 "'' is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . ",
 "even less surprises ",
 "its dying , ",
 "those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . ",
 "'s not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff ",
 "the most high-concept sci fi adventures ",
 "return to never land is much more p.c. than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",
 "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 . ",
 "deeply affecting film ",
 "to recovering from its demented premise ",
 "hallelujah for small favors ",
 "a sentimental mess ",
 "the improperly hammy performance ",
 "tipped this film into the `` a '' range , as is ",
 "most enchanting ",
 "odd bedfellows ",
 "inevitable and ",
 "turn it off ",
 "great past ",
 "difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny ",
 "has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing ",
 "the quirky ",
 "which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure ",
 "at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ... all you have left ",
 "sappy as big daddy ",
 "fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . ",
 "life affirming ",
 "its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch . ",
 "'re gon na like this movie ",
 "could have been crisper and punchier , but ",
 "its most immediate and most obvious pleasure ",
 "just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . ",
 "ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon ",
 "lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them ",
 "deft ",
 ", and intelligent ",
 "been much better ",
 "reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy ",
 "idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger ",
 "interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , ",
 "intelligent screenplay ",
 "ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . ",
 "crudity ",
 "all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings ",
 "humorless , ",
 "very well done ",
 "ill-considered notion ",
 ", clever ",
 "as imaginative as one might have hoped ",
 ", biting and witty feature ",
 "ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick ",
 "its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters ",
 "to squeeze a few laughs out of the material ",
 "almost no organic intrigue ",
 "is a horrible movie -- ",
 ", obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",
 "is on full , irritating display in ( this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot ",
 "storytelling skills ",
 "fetishistic violence ",
 "authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , ",
 "proves tiresome ",
 "one very funny joke and a few other decent ones ",
 "same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ",
 "bucked the odds ",
 "a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you can not separate them . ",
 "too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . ",
 "fresh ",
 "be compelling , amusing and unsettling ",
 "all the way ",
 "'s still not a good movie ",
 "pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness ",
 "a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall ",
 "an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion ",
 "is stiff or just plain bad . ",
 "could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one ",
 ", there 's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",
 "the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ",
 "could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage ",
 "a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . ",
 "likely to see all year ",
 "be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ",
 "it 's an ambitious film , and ",
 "bad film ",
 "sit through crap like this ",
 "to blow it ",
 "they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting ",
 "look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten ",
 "is such a blip on the year 's radar screen ",
 "it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate ",
 "a 95-minute commercial for nba properties ",
 "fascinating , unnerving examination ",
 "this is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . ",
 "affirming and ",
 "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 . ",
 "achingly human ",
 "on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film . ",
 "true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ",
 ", whatever your orientation . ",
 "one of this year 's very best pictures ",
 "glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby ",
 "but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker . ",
 "astoundingly ",
 "ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity ",
 "the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates ",
 "confront it ",
 "there 's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . ",
 "us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "climactic setpiece ",
 "slight to be called any kind of masterpiece ",
 "is nothing redeeming about this movie . ",
 "its visual panache ",
 "hilarious dialogue ",
 "mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush ",
 "good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again ",
 "it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . ",
 "that is impenetrable and dull ",
 "looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . ",
 "a passable date film ",
 "this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . ",
 "it 's black hawk down with more heart . ",
 "pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess . ",
 "shining star ",
 "the overall fabric is hypnotic , and ",
 "'s an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal . ",
 "could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh 's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination ",
 "eventual cult classic ",
 "more entertaining ",
 "of good actors ",
 "sobering and powerful documentary ",
 "has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle ",
 "at times it 's simply baffling ",
 "genuine laughs ",
 "a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition ",
 "if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . ",
 "an asian landscape painting ",
 "a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone ",
 "time , death ",
 "a bland murder-on-campus yawner . ",
 "norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination ",
 "a detailed personal portrait ",
 "to overcome my resistance ",
 "itself and retreats ",
 "somewhat short ",
 "makes a better short story ",
 "a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it ",
 "clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . ",
 "the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , ",
 "gorgeous locales ",
 "a cinematic fluidity and sense ",
 "a renowned indian film culture ",
 "lyrical and celebratory vision ",
 "ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",
 "the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year ",
 "a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs ",
 "a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard ... and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . ",
 "directed , highly professional film that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways ",
 "that 's there to scare while we delight in the images ",
 "shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown ",
 "rich ",
 "energizes ",
 "more slowly ",
 "suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance ",
 "look american angst in the eye and end up laughing ",
 "charismatic ",
 "so much fun ",
 "the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing ",
 "personal tragedy and also the human comedy ",
 "a charming , banter-filled comedy ... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface ",
 "a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clich\u00e9s and showcases a group of dedicated artists . ",
 "think they ",
 "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 ",
 "the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times ",
 "one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . ",
 "rough ",
 "great , has solid acting and a neat premise ",
 "the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . ",
 "responsible ",
 "timeless and ",
 "be glued to the screen ",
 "it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . ",
 "gentle and humane ",
 ", transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision ",
 "new favorite musical ",
 "this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , despite a few whopping shootouts . ",
 "eerily accurate depiction of depression . ",
 "good deal ",
 "95-minute commercial ",
 "report card : does n't live up to the exalted tagline - ",
 "in clich\u00e9s and mawkish dialogue ",
 "the film is essentially juiceless . ",
 "dull , dumb and derivative horror ",
 "authentic account ",
 "too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story would n't work without all those gimmicks . ",
 "single-minded as john carpenter 's original ",
 "important , original talent ",
 "a rumor of angels does n't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . ",
 "it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",
 "cool visual backmasking ) ",
 "deep-seated , emotional ",
 "is well told ",
 "some real vitality and ",
 "is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you ",
 "of ( woo 's ) best work ",
 "an exceptionally good idea ",
 "does n't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown 's life . ",
 "solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but ",
 "endless assault ",
 "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 . ",
 "yiddish stage ",
 "dirty ",
 "a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ",
 "from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast ",
 "moving , and adventurous ",
 "skip this dreck ",
 "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 ",
 "downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves ",
 "a great movie ",
 "is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . ",
 "loss and loneliness ",
 "a canny crowd pleaser , ",
 "about the life ",
 "the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ",
 "part of that delicate canon ",
 "need movies like tim mccann 's revolution no. 9 . ",
 "very handsomely produced ",
 "plain dumb ",
 "think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch ",
 "not only is it hokey ",
 "blessed with a searing lead performance ",
 ", colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . ",
 "certainly wo n't be remembered as one of ( witherspoon 's ) better films . ",
 "none of the charm and little ",
 "is as predictable as the tides . ",
 "over-blown ",
 "an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins ",
 "biggest disappointments ",
 "i just saw this movie ... well , it 's probably not accurate to call it a movie . ",
 "a bit cold and relatively flavorless ",
 "elegant ",
 "that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy ",
 "full of holes that will be obvious even to those who are n't looking for them ",
 "an undeniably gorgeous , terminally ",
 "self-consciously flashy camera effects ",
 "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 ",
 "is not worth ",
 "the adventures of direct-to-video nash ",
 "into a few evocative images and striking character traits ",
 "memorable cinematic experience ",
 "a liability ",
 "a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief ",
 "created a monster but did n't know how to handle it ",
 "jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , ",
 ", it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ",
 "feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story ",
 "stereotypical familial quandaries ",
 "in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . ",
 "freshman fluke ",
 "always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story ",
 "is a big letdown . ",
 "but it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",
 "a rollicking adventure ",
 "little wit ",
 "often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it 's very much like life itself . ",
 "irksome , tiresome nature ",
 "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 ",
 "sure to make a clear point -- even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation ",
 "brilliant surfing photography ",
 "a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie 's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie 's most admirable quality ",
 "social injustice ",
 "one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . ",
 "two towers outdoes its spectacle . ",
 "while something of bubba ho-tep 's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere ",
 "a larger-than-life figure , ",
 "effortlessly ",
 "'s simply unbearable ",
 "'s part of what makes dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent ",
 "equals the sum of its pretensions ",
 "looking for a story ",
 "with but they 're simply not funny performers ",
 "who normally could n't care less ",
 "with a tawdry b-movie scum ",
 "an ungainly movie ",
 "a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and ",
 "cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults ",
 "a choppy ending ",
 "careless ",
 "interesting ",
 "sexy , funny and touching . ",
 "a clich\u00e9d and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . ",
 "of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day ",
 "is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . ",
 "a lifetime ",
 "does seem pretty unbelievable at times ",
 "perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die ",
 "last 15 years ",
 "substitute plot for personality ",
 "the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable ",
 "you have the patience for it ",
 "is so engagingly ",
 "bracingly truthful ",
 "it 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . ",
 "concrete story ",
 "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 ",
 "an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . ",
 "otherwise appalling , and ",
 "most touching movie ",
 "will be pleased to discover that tian 's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus ",
 "successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters ",
 "staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors ",
 "its effectiveness ",
 "releasing a film with the word ` dog ' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults ",
 "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 . ",
 "taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and ",
 "posing as a real movie ",
 "city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . ",
 "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 ",
 "this overlong infomercial , due out on video before month 's end ",
 "macdowell ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done . ",
 "skeeved ",
 "strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . ",
 "-- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- ",
 "it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases ",
 "with witty dialogue and inventive moments ",
 "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 ",
 "which also seems to play on a 10-year delay ",
 "frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining ",
 "his is an interesting character ",
 "excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins ",
 "to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom ",
 "bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie ",
 "it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie . ",
 "bogdanovich puts history in perspective ",
 "may pick up new admirers ",
 ", an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . ",
 "cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts ",
 "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 . ",
 "captivating and intimate study ",
 "start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line ",
 "the name of high art ",
 "budding amours ",
 "all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ",
 "a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art ",
 "the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept ",
 "strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss ",
 "this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair ",
 "frothy ` date movie ",
 "sharp as a samurai sword ",
 "that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability ",
 "is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . ",
 "the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . ",
 "she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain ",
 "the modern remake of dumas 's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on action . ",
 "subtlest works ",
 "the overcooked , ham-fisted direction ",
 "dimness ",
 "a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year ",
 "that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material ",
 "easily the most thoughtful fictional examination ",
 "is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",
 "oddly whimsical ",
 "with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel ",
 "often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? ",
 "like a skillful fisher ",
 "not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",
 "overlong documentary about ` the lifestyle . ",
 "in place for a great film noir ",
 "achingly enthralling premise ",
 "with universal appeal ",
 "unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald 's , let alone some savvy street activism ",
 "an action/thriller ",
 "not easily and , in the end , not well enough ",
 "predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor ",
 "let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , ",
 "a lot richer than the ones ",
 "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 . ",
 "well-balanced ",
 "are made for each other . ",
 "powerful ",
 "badly cobbled look ",
 "that it does afford ",
 "badly made on every level ",
 "violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . ",
 "cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements ",
 "a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script ",
 "is intelligently accomplished ",
 "broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil ",
 "damage ",
 "soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",
 "while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself ",
 "just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny . ",
 "gentle but insistent sincerity ",
 "an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off ",
 "how ",
 "disconnects ",
 ", and irritating ",
 "of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery ",
 "felt performances across the board . ",
 "despite iwai 's vaunted empathy ",
 "that `` gangs '' is never lethargic ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "is a shame that more wo n't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet ` evelyn ",
 "want to see it twice ",
 "holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin 's film serves up with style and empathy . ",
 "covers this territory with wit and originality , ",
 "ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- ",
 "erratic career ",
 "enriched ",
 "predictably conventional ",
 "fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and ",
 "cinematic touchstone ",
 "lack-of-attention ",
 "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 . ",
 "a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition ",
 "bold biographical fantasia ",
 "a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas ",
 "its sweeping battle scenes ",
 "inconsequential ",
 "wears out ",
 "remarkable yet shockingly ",
 "the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and ",
 "of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless ",
 "that seems tailor ",
 "the plot has a number of holes , and ",
 "simple , sweet and romantic ",
 "it 's a masterpiece . ",
 "the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone ",
 "teens are looking for something to make them laugh ",
 "big-fisted ",
 "a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease ",
 "fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) ",
 "be a different kind of film ",
 "the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery ",
 ", fireballs and revenge ",
 "achieves ultimate insignificance ",
 "negativity ",
 "first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . ",
 "has some of the funniest jokes of any movie ",
 "it 's an entertaining and informative documentary . ",
 "are for children and dog lovers ",
 "dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding ",
 "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 . ",
 "and witty feature ",
 "is equally hackneyed ",
 "inventive , consistently intelligent ",
 "it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; ",
 "can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . ",
 "big selling point ",
 "as well-written as sexy beast ",
 ", you 're in luck . ",
 "a less-than-thrilling thriller . ",
 "can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood is n't going to jell . ",
 "an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone ",
 "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 ",
 "nothing but boilerplate clich\u00e9s ",
 "two guys yelling in your face for two hours ",
 "is more likely to induce sleep than fright . ",
 "it 's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , ",
 "is competent ",
 "a handful ",
 "as much fun ",
 "shining ",
 "devoid of pleasure or sensuality ",
 "like the similarly ill-timed antitrust ",
 "family film to take everyone to since there 's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year ",
 "as a vehicle to savor binoche 's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",
 ", my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , color and cringe . ",
 "an ill-conceived jumble that 's not scary , not smart and not engaging . ",
 "a gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema ",
 "'s almost worth seeing because it 's so bad ",
 "jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . ",
 "sullivan and his son ",
 "shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",
 "of a poetic ",
 "i feel better already . ",
 "seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense ",
 "enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , ",
 "the movie is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",
 "genial is the conceit , ",
 "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 . ",
 "garde ",
 "goofiest ",
 "a mishmash ",
 "durable ",
 "painful to watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama ",
 "seems so real ",
 "itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",
 "`` red dragon '' is entertaining . ",
 "'ll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy ",
 "preachy and ",
 "lots of cool stuff packed into espn 's ultimate x. ",
 "roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . ",
 "upon layer of action man clich\u00e9 atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of ( woo 's ) best work ",
 "almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- ",
 "indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . ",
 "i could feel my eyelids ... getting ... very ... heavy ... ",
 "in its understanding , often funny way ",
 ", at times sublime , ",
 "cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative ",
 "most offensive action ",
 "beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . ",
 "made me want to pack raw dough in my ears ",
 "its initial promise ",
 "be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and ",
 "main asset ",
 "insightful moments ",
 "is a feast for the eyes ",
 "massive cardiac arrest ",
 "beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting ",
 "authenticate her british persona ",
 "starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop ",
 "clearly well-intentioned ",
 "jolts the laughs from the audience -- ",
 "skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but ",
 "horrible ",
 "from both a great and a terrible story , mr. nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . ",
 "their lack of chemistry ",
 "leave the theater with a lower i.q. than when i had entered ",
 "feel a nagging sense of deja vu ",
 "the awful complications ",
 "wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating ",
 "irresistible blend ",
 "our dismay ",
 "'ll have a good time with this one too ",
 "resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors ",
 "that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd ",
 "a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . ",
 "depressingly ",
 "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 . ",
 "go-for-broke acting that heralds something special ",
 "the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis ",
 "'s also not very good ",
 "about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful . ",
 "seems inconceivable ",
 "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 . ",
 "complete mess ",
 "humanism ",
 "anger and ",
 "a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh 's traffic ",
 "its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , ",
 "is more than merely a holocaust movie ",
 "to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short ",
 "sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own ",
 "from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen ",
 "that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence ",
 "like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- ",
 "it 's all bluster and clich\u00e9 ",
 "an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . ",
 "intellectual and ",
 "most touching movie of recent years ",
 "makes the right choices at every turn ",
 "of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents ",
 "green ruins every single scene he 's in , and ",
 "guilty-pleasure ",
 "'s easy to love robin tunney ",
 "fresh , entertaining comedy ",
 "seem goofy ",
 "gives a superb performance ",
 "new insight ",
 "little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ",
 "is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . ",
 "for the art-house crowd ",
 "her bully of a husband ",
 "attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",
 "would not likely be so stupid as to get ",
 "that rare creature -- ",
 "nuanced performance ",
 "loves a david and goliath story ",
 "delight your senses ",
 "the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times ",
 "'s because relatively nothing happens ",
 "in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , ",
 "uncomfortably timely , relevant ",
 "holm does his sly , intricate magic , and ",
 "empty stud knockabout ",
 "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 ",
 "she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ",
 "is definitely worth seeing . ",
 "derivative horror film ",
 "has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . ",
 "vonnegut ",
 "no amount of imagination ",
 "is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains ",
 "completely familiar ",
 "an all-around good time at the movies this summer ",
 "the day-old shelf ",
 "an enormous amount of affection ",
 "sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy ",
 "a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood ",
 "attempts to be grandiloquent , but ",
 "painful ",
 "the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand ",
 "the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . ",
 "lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories ",
 "seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good ",
 "to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies ",
 "does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb ",
 "'s a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . ",
 "are first-rate ",
 "shindler ",
 "the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",
 "two fatal ailments ",
 "an admirably dark first script by brent hanley ",
 "even murphy 's expert comic timing and famed charisma ca n't rescue this effort . ",
 "soggy performances ",
 "watered-down ",
 "triumph ' ",
 "an interesting bit of speculation ",
 "express warmth and longing ",
 "april ",
 "you 've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie ",
 "engaging enough ",
 "this fascinating look at israel in ferment ",
 "unless you 're a fanatic , the best advice is : ` scooby ' do n't . ",
 "run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest ",
 "a worthwhile documentary ",
 "the rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based . ",
 "while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome clich\u00e9 ",
 "are canny and spiced with irony . ",
 "the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while ",
 "will capture the minds and hearts of many ",
 "at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had ",
 "in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . ",
 "the performances are an absolute joy . ",
 "it seems most likely that broomfield 's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer ",
 "ample ",
 ", sweaty-palmed fun ",
 "his trademark misogyny ",
 "is a real filmmaker ",
 "... 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 . ",
 "an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep ",
 "insanely hilarious ",
 "have come to term an `` ambitious failure ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "of the bride 's humor is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . ",
 "the gratuitous cinematic distractions ",
 "the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . ",
 "is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders ",
 "often-funny ",
 "more than anything else slight ... tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations ",
 "exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation ",
 "its otherwise comic narrative ",
 "seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms. mirren , who did ) ",
 "mr. scorsese 's ",
 "with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame ",
 "'ll like it ",
 "film to drag on for nearly three hours ",
 "lulled ",
 "knows it 's won ",
 "achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . ",
 "to guilt-trip parents ",
 "class bores ",
 "sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices ",
 "fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages ",
 "( breheny 's ) lensing ",
 "engaging and exciting ",
 "a sketchy work-in-progress ",
 "watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you 've completely lowered your entertainment standards ",
 ", it 's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and alienation . ",
 "thoughtful what-if ",
 "the elements were all there ",
 "a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt ",
 "get into heaven ",
 "out of eudora welty ",
 ", but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? ",
 "worthy and ",
 "the group 's playful spark ",
 "supremely hopeful cautionary tale ",
 "at best ",
 "it 's better suited for the history or biography channel , ",
 "share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us ",
 "ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative ",
 "jazzy score ",
 "flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters ",
 "a great premise ",
 "does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminal . ",
 "moving performance ",
 "may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . ",
 "its storytelling prowess ",
 "fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies ",
 "dramatic nor comic ",
 "enables shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb ",
 "including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen ",
 "are simply too good ",
 "of effecting change and inspiring hope ",
 "laugh-out-loud lunacy ",
 "transforms one of ( shakespeare 's ) deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . ",
 "an ` a ' list cast ",
 "has a real filmmaker 's eye . ",
 "gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality ",
 "me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes ",
 "much power ",
 "managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood ",
 "the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . ",
 "confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances ",
 "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 . ",
 "unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it ",
 "found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime ",
 "of moral compromise ",
 "spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels ",
 "to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors ",
 "with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera ",
 "b + ",
 "he gives the story some soul ",
 "of a paint-by-numbers picture ",
 "presented with great sympathy and intelligence ",
 "every cheap trick ",
 "more than merely a holocaust movie ",
 "makes the clothes ",
 "tenacious ",
 "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 . ",
 "derived from a lobotomy ",
 "wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him . ",
 "it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout ",
 "best sequel ",
 "into a poem of art , music and metaphor ",
 "perfect balance ",
 "the otherwise good-naturedness of mr. deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less - than-likely new york celebrities ",
 "an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing ",
 "this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . ",
 "appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ",
 "british stage icon ",
 "friend ",
 "nice , harmless date film ",
 "the resolutions ",
 "offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . ",
 "buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy role ",
 "i could not stand them ",
 ", lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",
 "standout ",
 "sweet , and intermittently hilarious ",
 "in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout -- and meat loaf explodes . ",
 "by its awkward structure and a final veering ",
 "is a lumbering , wheezy drag ",
 "richly detailed ",
 "a remarkable movie ",
 "does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor ",
 "a fairly enjoyable mixture ",
 "characters so unsympathetic ",
 "and moving portrait ",
 "as temptingly easy ",
 "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 ",
 "labors as storytelling . ",
 "plod ",
 "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 . '' ",
 "call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace ",
 "the unique way shainberg ",
 "great sympathy and intelligence ",
 "third-rate horror sequels ",
 "about the folly of superficiality that is itself ",
 "how admirably ",
 "excels in spectacle and pacing . ",
 "adaptation is intricately constructed and ",
 "unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . ",
 "rescue adrian lyne 's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing ",
 "good qualities ",
 "documentarian ",
 "a bad blend ",
 "brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . ",
 "if you 're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film . ",
 "moving story ",
 "been remarkable about clung-to traditions ",
 "same stuff ",
 "feels contrived , ",
 "idiotic and ugly ",
 "is notable for its sheer audacity and openness . ",
 "strives ",
 "appeals to me ",
 "rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy ",
 "is never especially clever and often ",
 "like a precious and finely cut diamond ",
 "lacking ",
 "poor fit ",
 "say nothing of boring ",
 "the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy ",
 "i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed ",
 "novels to the big screen ",
 "is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy ",
 "a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels ",
 "it 's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , ",
 "tasteful , intelligent manner ",
 "articulates ",
 ", you still have to see this ! ",
 "mindless and boring ",
 "after being snared in its own tangled plot ",
 "shrill and soporific ",
 "a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit ",
 "controversial ",
 "keep things interesting ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship ",
 "beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... ",
 "( 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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "high art ",
 "two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema ",
 "an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability ",
 "venture forth ",
 "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 . ",
 "see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue ",
 "broomfield 's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and ",
 "complete denial about his obsessive behavior ",
 "thrillers actually thrilled ",
 "succeeds mainly ",
 "the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati ",
 ", viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . ",
 "what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents ",
 "enjoyable family ",
 "one of the funnier movies in town ",
 "there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs. the big guys ",
 "bombshell documentary ",
 "coherent ",
 "on toilet humor , ethnic slurs ",
 "the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired ",
 "thanks to an astonishingly witless script ",
 "... could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 . ",
 "is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives ",
 "is never satisfactory ",
 "a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . ",
 "a recycled and dumbed-down version ",
 "definitive account ",
 "feel like a 10-course banquet . ",
 "to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state . ",
 "with enough sardonic wit ",
 "martha stewart decorating program run amok ",
 "surprisingly brilliant ",
 "better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals ",
 "jack o ' ",
 "represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema ",
 "make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "this loose collection of largely improvised numbers ",
 "ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . ",
 "comes together ",
 "the power of the huston performance , ",
 "as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass 's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . ",
 "a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme ",
 "cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . ",
 "evelyn 's strong cast and surehanded direction ",
 ", but also intriguing and honorable , ",
 "plodding picture ",
 "rut ",
 "achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars ",
 "fantastically ",
 "has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop ",
 "plucks ",
 "to be a part of that elusive adult world ",
 "sincere , and just ",
 "say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets ",
 "nostalgic ",
 "an unforced , rapid-fire delivery ",
 "to lend some dignity to a dumb story ",
 "quirky , slightly strange french films ",
 "mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either . ",
 "a finely written , ",
 "this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . ",
 "most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups ",
 "contrived pastiche of caper clich\u00e9s . ",
 "a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils ",
 "a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will ",
 "the emotional depth ",
 "this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . ",
 "simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply ",
 "environmental pollution ever made ",
 "stale retread of the '53 original ",
 "allows nothing ",
 "a loud , low-budget and tired formula film ",
 "undernourished ",
 "humor and heart and ",
 "a category called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but was n't ",
 "rather unique approach ",
 "there 's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",
 "the film has a terrific look and ",
 "mind-numbingly ",
 "a part of its grand locations ",
 "so memorable ",
 "naked teenagers horror flick ",
 "this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot ",
 "an engrossing story ",
 "topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs ",
 "there are n'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 . ",
 "this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material ",
 "the insinuation of mediocre acting ",
 "this elegant entertainment ",
 "in the annals of cinema ",
 "some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies ",
 "hated myself in the morning ",
 "find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective ",
 "atmospheric weirdness ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "exploitative ",
 "should win the band a few new converts , too ",
 "that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life ",
 "he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit ",
 "i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious ",
 "will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess ",
 "clever and unflinching ",
 "incredibly flexible cast ",
 "as it does because ( the leads ) are such a companionable couple ",
 "sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy ",
 "a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie . ",
 "from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 ",
 "a haunting tale ",
 "esoteric ",
 "'s a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . ",
 "little action ",
 "perfectly serviceable ",
 "a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together . ",
 "'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 . ",
 "to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion ",
 "schnieder ",
 "michel piccoli 's moving performance is this films reason for being . ",
 "give it a marginal thumbs up ",
 "have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart . ",
 "is such a sweet and sexy film ",
 "is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears . ",
 ", i hate it . ",
 "dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters ",
 "in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else ",
 "sheer dumbness ",
 "guns , violence ",
 "lightweight but appealing . ",
 "is too blatant ",
 "you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists ",
 "'s smooth and professional ",
 "so i do n't know what she 's doing in here ",
 "this `` un-bear-able '' project ",
 "cultural identity ",
 "3-d ",
 "could bond while watching a walk to remember . ",
 "profound ",
 "an in-depth portrait ",
 "staggeringly dreadful romance . ",
 "and sometimes dry ",
 "sucks . ",
 "in all fairness ",
 "makes this movie worth seeing ",
 "a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style -- casting excellent latin actors of all ages -- ",
 "with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life ",
 "is one carried by a strong sense of humanism ",
 "into how long is this movie ? ",
 "unfunny and ",
 "is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",
 "deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . ",
 "familiar and predictable , and 4/5ths of it ",
 "both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters ",
 "to face frightening late fees ",
 "a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or ",
 "among the many pleasures ",
 "'s an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise ",
 "is long on ",
 "funny , ",
 "would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful ",
 "brightly colored dreams ",
 "the recording sessions are intriguing ",
 "starts off so bad ",
 "a movie that 's held captive by mediocrity . ",
 "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 . ",
 "worn-out material ",
 "a fair bit ",
 "allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances ... ",
 "i saw this one ",
 "have been kind enough to share it ",
 "sitting through dahmer 's two hours ",
 "the project should have been made for the tube . ",
 "is a plodding mess . ",
 "amateurishly ",
 "a well-executed spy-thriller . ",
 "of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship ",
 "its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches ",
 "is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level ",
 "powerful and revelatory ",
 "russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers 's title-bout features . ",
 "a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them ",
 "is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . ",
 "discerned here that producers would be well to heed ",
 "does everything ",
 "makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . ",
 "had no trouble sitting for blade ii . ",
 "bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique ",
 "it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten ",
 "in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d ",
 "humorous , illuminating study ",
 "all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . ",
 "thanks to the presence ",
 "leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors ",
 "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 ",
 "kids will love its fantasy and adventure , and ",
 "more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice ",
 "believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before ",
 "has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness ",
 "altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece ",
 "when the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons ",
 "of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates ",
 "poignant and moving ",
 "is so clumsily sentimental ",
 "spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick ",
 "goddammit ",
 "into corny sentimentality ",
 "'s definitely a step in the right direction . ",
 "a rather tired exercise in nostalgia . ",
 "children 's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation ",
 "the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery ",
 "its utter sincerity ",
 "blues ",
 "is too much of a plunge ",
 "dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . ",
 "do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director ",
 "at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless ",
 "that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead ",
 "experimentation and improvisation ",
 "loveable or otherwise ",
 "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 ",
 "first lousy guy ritchie imitation ",
 "bore ",
 "there 's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",
 "clever , offbeat and even gritty enough ",
 "stopped challenging himself ",
 "a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated ",
 "inspired dialogue bits ",
 "lost ideal ",
 "are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking ",
 "foul substances ",
 "found in almost all of his previous works ",
 "some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck ",
 "leguizamo 's best movie work so far ",
 "this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . ",
 "surehanded ",
 "of dedicated artists ",
 "fascinating character study ",
 "macabre ",
 "some laughs ",
 "be found a tough beauty ",
 "technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive ",
 "beginning with the pale script ",
 "loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",
 "shapeless ",
 "rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie ",
 "runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . ",
 "guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts ",
 "yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ",
 "a rounded and revealing overview ",
 "is surprisingly brilliant ",
 "fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and ",
 "the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke ",
 "the weak payoff ",
 ", it has a genuine dramatic impact ",
 "'s no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form ",
 "silly -- and gross -- but it 's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ",
 "clooney 's ) debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined ",
 "has something significant to say ",
 "sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama ",
 "absurdities and clich\u00e9s ",
 "been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie ",
 "is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny ",
 "these characters become wearisome . ",
 "be mesmerised ",
 ", wall-to-wall good time ",
 "... instead go rent `` shakes the clown '' , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . ",
 "features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances ",
 "home alabama ",
 "a clever exercise ",
 "a terrible story ",
 "has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre ",
 "ca n'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 . ",
 "one of cinema 's directorial giants ",
 "he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic ",
 "quite tasty and inviting all the same ",
 ", any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . ",
 "and as bland ",
 "and , in the end , not well enough ",
 "proper respect ",
 "a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship ",
 "stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying ",
 "eclipses ",
 "just the labor involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . ",
 "stiff , ponderous and charmless ",
 "by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . ",
 "b-movie imagination ",
 "to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood ",
 ", amari 's film falls short in building the drama of lilia 's journey . ",
 "lush , swooning melodrama ",
 "best ensemble casts ",
 "the rest of the film ... is dudsville . ",
 "sophisticated ",
 "remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking ",
 "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 . ",
 "clever , amusing and unpredictable ",
 "firmly ",
 "popcorn movie fun ",
 "it 's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . ",
 "benefit ",
 "falls short in building the drama of lilia 's journey ",
 "generate enough heat ",
 "'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 ",
 "time out ",
 "toolbags ",
 "fairly uneventful ",
 "75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie ",
 "a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get ",
 "into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality ",
 "convinced that these women are spectacular ",
 "keen eye , sweet spirit ",
 "the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . ",
 "brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie ",
 "delights and ",
 "digs into their very minds ",
 "of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand ",
 "`` 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 . ",
 "episode ii -- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight ",
 "is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children ",
 "to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy ",
 "itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension ",
 "feel my eyelids ... getting ... very ... ",
 "lust ",
 "odd and weird . ",
 "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 . ",
 "underneath such a mountain of clich\u00e9s and borrowed images ",
 "from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair ",
 "lacking a depth ",
 "a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas ",
 "with a treasure chest of material ",
 "the movie is a mess from start to finish . ",
 "give a backbone to the company ",
 "if the film is well-crafted and this one is ",
 "the buoyant energy level of the film 's city beginnings ",
 "than what 's been cobbled together onscreen ",
 "scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph ",
 "brave and challenging ",
 "deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe ",
 "refined piece ",
 "a feel-good movie ",
 "the triviality ",
 "knows how to hold the screen ",
 "you would n't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",
 "the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy ",
 "ultimately tragic ",
 ", brutally clueless ",
 "the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the `` other side of the story . '' ",
 "visually compelling one ",
 "has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . ",
 "his supple understanding of the role ",
 "its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , ",
 "dull , inconsistent , dishonest ",
 "the problem ",
 "this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . ",
 "appealing about the characters ",
 "a masterful work of art of their own ",
 "the funny bone ",
 "confessions is n't always coherent , but it 's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . ",
 "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 ",
 "that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film ",
 ", hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . ",
 "next to little insight ",
 "usual intelligence and subtlety ",
 "its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies ",
 "who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world ",
 "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 ",
 "the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . ",
 "blue hilarity ",
 "served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it ",
 "plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . ",
 "promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ",
 "wow . ",
 "is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music ",
 "of oscar wilde 's classic satire ",
 "is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . ",
 "not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . ",
 "losin ' ",
 "any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy 's sledgehammer sap . ",
 "piece , a model of menacing atmosphere ",
 "i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . ",
 "integrating the characters in the foreground ",
 "their parents ' anguish ",
 "in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario ",
 "well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . ",
 "its rather routine script ",
 "the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound ",
 "out mediocre ",
 "is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . ",
 "a determined woman 's courage to find her husband in a war zone ",
 "the rich and sudden wisdom , ",
 "that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california ",
 "sting ",
 "in an admittedly middling film ",
 "there are some fairly unsettling scenes ",
 "much dramatic impact ",
 "is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import ",
 "who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man ",
 "then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",
 "not remotely incisive enough ",
 "takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience ",
 "idealism american ",
 "trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards ",
 "truly awful ",
 "cheap-shot mediocrity ",
 "making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing ",
 "advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching ",
 "shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",
 "too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell ",
 "that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen ",
 "this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",
 "takes its central idea way too seriously ",
 "without sham the raw-nerved story ",
 "better drama ",
 "of the most highly-praised disappointments i ",
 "'s hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",
 "food-for-thought cinema ",
 "'s too long ",
 "an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director 's previous work ",
 ", thought-provoking new york fest ",
 "watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , ",
 "feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark ",
 "wiser ",
 "engaging and ",
 "is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents ",
 "told and retold ",
 "classic movie franchise ",
 "'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 . ",
 "huge-screen ",
 "outdated ",
 "gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . ",
 "... overly melodramatic ... ",
 "yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective ",
 "help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact ",
 "this wafer-thin movie ",
 "the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him ",
 "no ",
 "will want to see over and over again . ",
 "drags it back ",
 "its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",
 "pedestrian ",
 "delights and simmering ",
 "there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . ",
 "it offers hope ",
 "almost wildly alive ",
 "impersonal and ",
 "a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life ",
 "nearly impossible to care about ",
 ", glaring and unforgettable . ",
 "to be embraced ",
 "peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , ",
 "ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . ",
 "after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing ",
 "painstaking ",
 "the insipid script ",
 "the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . ",
 "waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over ",
 "not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ? ",
 "gone a tad less for grit and a lot more ",
 "served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick ",
 "of education ",
 "this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , ",
 "vastly entertaining ",
 ", very enjoyable ... ",
 "the funniest motion ",
 "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 . ",
 "proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep ",
 "ca n't remember a single name responsible for it ",
 "to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of ` ethnic cleansing ",
 "you can smell the grease on the plot ",
 "with too little ",
 "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 ",
 "'s truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible ",
 "the battle ",
 "expect from movies ",
 "allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , ",
 "a complex story ",
 "to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting ",
 "a modest masterpiece . ",
 "it 's funny , as the old saying goes , because it 's true . ",
 "enjoyed ",
 "a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture ",
 "serve no other purpose ",
 "is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise ",
 "gives us a reason to care about them ",
 "there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . ",
 "integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy ",
 "may not add up to the sum of its parts ",
 "what i saw , i enjoyed . ",
 "standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth ",
 "uses grant 's own twist of acidity ",
 "its characters and its audience ",
 "a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy ",
 "an excellent choice ",
 "oddly compelling ",
 "a fascinating profile ",
 "does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . ",
 "the nifty premise ",
 "weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting ",
 "cruel ",
 "turned this ",
 "where their heads were is anyone 's guess . ",
 "deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy ",
 "inept filmmaking ",
 "dead-end existence ",
 "what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky . ",
 "is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay ",
 "drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- ",
 "incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap ",
 "at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . ",
 "a kiss ",
 "terrific setpieces ",
 "zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special ",
 "through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture ",
 "possibly the best actor ",
 "the rare movie ",
 "the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2 - hour running time . ",
 "of clich\u00e9s and a dim ",
 "and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics ",
 "it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; ",
 "found his groove these days ",
 "perhaps the budget of sommers 's title-bout features ",
 "a quietly moving ",
 "exhilarating , funny and fun . ",
 "it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking . ",
 "it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones 's diary ",
 "it 's a barely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ",
 "the cleverest , ",
 "is the only winner ",
 "this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming ",
 "that we really have n't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since ... well ... since last week 's reign of fire ",
 "discloses almost nothing ",
 "the best since the last waltz ",
 "'s a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud ",
 "a particularly amateurish episode ",
 "leguizamo and jones are both excellent and ",
 "would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed ",
 "it 's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera ",
 "the hell cares ",
 "dehumanizing and ",
 "hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop ",
 "is in trouble ",
 "it wo n't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch 's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . ",
 "that profound , at least ",
 "the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen ",
 "takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading ",
 "high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation ",
 "dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",
 "feel alive - ",
 "that you 've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie ",
 "the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes ",
 "dark pit ",
 "happily ",
 "a story that 's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own ",
 "it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and ",
 "of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions ",
 "spontaneity in its execution and ",
 "never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free ",
 "that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone ",
 "visceral , nasty journey ",
 "have marked an emerging indian american cinema ",
 "before but never so vividly ",
 "the stomach-knotting suspense ",
 "a moldy-oldie , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it ",
 "energetic and ",
 "the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark card . ",
 "director randall wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency ",
 "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 ",
 "incoherence and sub-sophomoric ",
 "a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . ",
 "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 . ",
 "the result is somewhat satisfying ",
 "were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor ",
 "a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking ",
 "'s the best sequel since the empire strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth ",
 "'s a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship ",
 "emotional depth ",
 "a vision ",
 "despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . ",
 "` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' ",
 "superior '' ",
 ", is a note of defiance over social dictates . ",
 "an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ",
 "are uniformly good . ",
 "a muted freak-out ",
 "a james bond series ",
 "is truly gorgeous to behold ",
 "'s no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . ",
 "face frightening late fees ",
 "the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon ",
 "is boring ",
 "'s clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm 's shelf . ",
 "'s apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose ",
 "windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . ",
 "feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago ",
 "being gullible ",
 "touching ",
 "own breezy , distracted rhythms ",
 "i loved the look of this film . ",
 "shines on all the characters ",
 "his sly , intricate magic ",
 "if not a home run , then at least a solid base hit . ",
 "digital photography ",
 "that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer ",
 "talented , charismatic and tragically ",
 "contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs ",
 "lagging near the finish line ",
 ", passionate ",
 "laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . ",
 "also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ",
 "some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life ",
 "ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue ",
 "nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ",
 "any stylish sizzle ",
 "formulaic equations ",
 "as plain and pedestrian as catsup ",
 "hogwash ",
 "it has made its way into your very bloodstream ",
 "fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time ",
 "stretched out to feature length ",
 "ferrara 's ",
 "it look as though they are having so much fun ",
 "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 ",
 "sophomoric ",
 "scratching your head than hiding under your seat ",
 "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 . ",
 "comedy and ",
 "full of nuance and character dimension ",
 "deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , ",
 ", whimsical feature ",
 "is his best film yet ",
 "are undermined by the movie 's presentation , which is way too stagy ",
 "dislikable ",
 "is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot ",
 "it would be easy for critics to shred it ",
 "charming and witty , it 's also somewhat clumsy . ",
 "punctuated by flying guts ",
 "is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",
 "'m giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . ",
 "unsatisfying ending ",
 "curious about each other against all odds ",
 "queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- ",
 "well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . ",
 "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 ",
 "originality ai n't on the menu , but there 's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller ",
 "satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey ",
 "lacks it ",
 "an essentially awkward version ",
 "as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth ",
 "suspense or believable tension ",
 "despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",
 "enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out ",
 "speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . ",
 "would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . ",
 "intriguing look ",
 "this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ",
 "it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate ",
 "exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie ",
 "visually striking and ",
 "dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ",
 "the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile ",
 "jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - ",
 "without in any way demeaning its subjects ",
 "'s insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships ",
 "the art direction is often exquisite ",
 "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 . ",
 "does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music ",
 "highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ",
 "bad ideas and awkwardness ",
 "the film has some of the best special effects ever ",
 "his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress ",
 "of cliches that the talented cast generally ",
 "has a wooden delivery and ",
 "conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle ",
 "make gangster no. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience ",
 "the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line ",
 "never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding m\u00e9tier ",
 "how about surprising us by trying something new ? ",
 "does a solid job of slowly ",
 "the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations ",
 "enhancing ",
 "stop watching ",
 "there may have been a good film in `` trouble every day , '' but it is not what is on the screen . ",
 "makes their project so interesting ",
 "wonderful on the big screen ",
 "artistic ",
 "'s hard to like a film so cold and dead ",
 "gross romanticization ",
 "is a treat . ",
 "defend himself ",
 "a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music ",
 "spied with my little eye ... a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes ",
 "beautiful , self-satisfied ",
 ", a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . ",
 "is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . ",
 "to fulfill its own ambitious goals ",
 "imaginative flight ",
 "a low-budget series on a uhf channel ",
 "emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking ",
 "'s coherent , well shot , and tartly ",
 "the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and ",
 "between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking ",
 "with such good humor ",
 "off the element of surprise ",
 "weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . ",
 "is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . ",
 "everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy ",
 "'s hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter ",
 "of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name ",
 "that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies ",
 "innovations and glimpse ",
 "the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ... ",
 "of inspired humor ",
 "worthy of the gong . ",
 "will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere ",
 "stages his gags as assaults on america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony ",
 "point and purpose ",
 "you feel what they feel ",
 "wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . ",
 "of the worst of the entire franchise ",
 "it 's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . ",
 "for most of the characters ",
 "a nice , light treat ",
 "'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 . ",
 "the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",
 "'s worth taking the kids to . ",
 "a superb performance ",
 "reinvigorated ",
 "i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special ",
 "like shrek , spirit 's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . ",
 "by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen ",
 "it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . ",
 "delivers ",
 "'s awfully entertaining to watch . ",
 "uncreative ",
 "rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year ",
 "to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay ",
 "manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ",
 "most deceptively amusing ",
 "an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it ",
 "nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable ",
 "endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long ",
 "making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers ",
 "with the rat-a-tat energy of `` his girl friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes ",
 "wheedling reluctant witnesses ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "often intense ",
 "a knockout ",
 "features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",
 "a complete moron ",
 "in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances ",
 "sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed ",
 "it is essentially empty ",
 "would 've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film 's predictable denouement . ",
 "muted freak-out ",
 "expand a tv show ",
 "about the human need for monsters to blame for all that ",
 "must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride ",
 "takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors ",
 "even halfway scary ",
 "'s lots of cute animals and clumsy people ",
 "an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama . ",
 "hate yourself for giving in ",
 "a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor ",
 "a fantastically vital movie ",
 "seems a bit on the skinny side ",
 "her life half-asleep ",
 "gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion ",
 "a puritanical brand of christianity ",
 "that is n't afraid to admit it ",
 "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 ) , ",
 "real pleasure in its laid-back way ",
 "will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it ",
 "builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy ",
 ", the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing . ",
 "menacing ",
 "seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense ",
 "hope and magic ",
 "broadcast ",
 "efficient , suitably anonymous chiller ",
 "does n't really know or care about the characters , and ",
 "another gross-out college comedy -- ugh . ",
 "loneliness and is n't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience ",
 "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 . ",
 "sad nonsense , ",
 "it 's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but ",
 "too sappy ",
 "a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . ",
 "a scrooge or two ",
 "which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them ",
 "marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel ",
 "incredibly layered and stylistic ",
 "might not seem like the proper cup of tea ",
 "seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",
 "does n't figure in the present hollywood program ",
 "as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? ",
 "many different ideas from happiness ",
 "this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . ",
 "i 'll buy the soundtrack . ",
 "a small but rewarding comedy ",
 "it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , ",
 "rich and intelligent ",
 "may scream low budget ",
 "happy gilmore or the waterboy ",
 "the broiling sun for a good three days ",
 "compelling and ",
 "rigor ",
 "kosminsky ... puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ",
 ", ' i feel better already . ",
 "nothing special and , until the final act , ",
 "snow white ",
 "much more than ",
 "as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",
 "passion and energy ",
 "leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken ",
 "loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version ",
 "proves a servicable world war ii drama that ca n't totally hide its contrivances ",
 "white has n't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . ",
 "ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favor of an altogether darker side ",
 "stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ",
 "brilliantly written and ",
 "will stand in future years as an eloquent memorial to the world trade center tragedy . ",
 "been told and retold ",
 "appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ",
 "very interesting ",
 "that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times ",
 "bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . ",
 "stifling morality tale ",
 "all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper 's approach to the material is too upbeat . ",
 "cuaron repeatedly ",
 "romance-novel ",
 "it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers ",
 "do it his own way ",
 "want to slap it ",
 "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 ",
 "for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history ",
 "had their hearts in the right place . ",
 "so hideously and clumsily ",
 "histrionic ",
 "most magical and most ",
 "( a ) strong piece of work . ",
 "actors in bad bear suits ",
 "there are many definitions of ` time waster ' but this movie must surely be one of them ",
 "begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends ",
 "it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . ",
 "contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know ",
 "niches ",
 "that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women ",
 "not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . ",
 "a predictable connect-the-dots course ",
 "a gritty police thriller ",
 "marks a modest if encouraging return ",
 "marked an emerging indian american cinema ",
 "a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . ",
 "most wondrous ",
 "gorgeous film ",
 "does n't work . ",
 "plotting ",
 "it is japanese and yet feels universal ",
 "with the subject of love head-on ",
 "elling '' manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases ",
 "rowdy slapstick ",
 "cheap hysterics ",
 "her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human ",
 "governmental odds ",
 "a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points . ",
 "too stagey , talky ",
 "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 . ",
 "peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper ",
 "eastwood is off his game ",
 "gorgeous piano ",
 "like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it 's never too late to learn . ",
 "unwary viewers ",
 "a menace ",
 "decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set ",
 "a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics ",
 "a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . ",
 "the prospect of their own mortality ",
 "abhorrent ",
 "it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . ",
 "as the old saying goes , because it 's true ",
 "otherwise comic narrative ",
 "immensely ambitious , ",
 "few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog 's works ",
 "the buoyant energy level ",
 "a few hours after you 've seen it , you forget you 've been to the movies . ",
 "is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort ",
 "the dialogue is cumbersome , ",
 "almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun ",
 "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 ",
 "non-stop funny feast ",
 "of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him ",
 "a-list players ",
 "takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it ",
 "a plot that 's just too boring and obvious ",
 "kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters ",
 "is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . ",
 "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 ",
 "was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival ",
 "still fun and enjoyable and ",
 "are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal ",
 "enjoy this movie ",
 "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 . ",
 "our respect ",
 "in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion ",
 "disgracefully written dialogue ",
 "very ugly , very fast ",
 "thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",
 "the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . ",
 "the characters are paper thin ",
 "i ca n't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . ",
 "appeared in 1938 ",
 ", it will probably be a talky bore . ",
 "slummer ",
 "` top of the world ' ",
 "contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . ",
 "climax ",
 "with dickens ' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath 's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . ",
 "ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . ",
 "the english call ` too clever by half ",
 "this is n't a movie ; it 's a symptom ",
 "there 's no real sense of suspense ",
 "overwrought ",
 "is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics ",
 "it 's a movie that gets under your skin . ",
 "well spent ",
 "it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",
 "linger long after this film has ended ",
 "absorbing character study by andr\u00e9 turpin . ",
 "called `` jar-jar binks : the movie ",
 "a social injustice , at least ",
 "such life-embracing spirit ",
 ", will find morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",
 "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 ",
 "the peak of all things insipid ",
 "a rehash of every gangster movie ",
 "is barely ",
 "favorite ",
 "are still unconcerned about what they ingest ",
 "'s funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once . ",
 "a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis ",
 "handily ",
 "that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it ",
 "the cat 's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich ... ",
 "the power of this movie ",
 "some very good acting , dialogue ",
 "of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother ",
 "delivers on the promise of excitement ",
 "the beauty ",
 "has its merits ",
 "'s so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones 's diary . ",
 "made for the tube ",
 "hope ",
 "one of france 's most inventive directors ",
 "of the holiday box office pie ",
 "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining ",
 "a lovely film for the holiday season . ",
 "conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming ",
 "of a thousand cliches ",
 "the town has kind of an authentic feel , but ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "a thought-provoking and often-funny drama ",
 "vividly ",
 "barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle ",
 ", astonish and entertain ",
 "on no level whatsoever for me ",
 "satisfying kids flck ",
 "'s tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo ",
 "kline 's superbly nuanced performance , ",
 "muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious ",
 "constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . ",
 "it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",
 "just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract ",
 "both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations ",
 "a moving tale of love and destruction ",
 "is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material ",
 "boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . ",
 "short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . ",
 "laughing at his own joke ",
 "but its just not a thrilling movie ",
 "rent the disney version ",
 "are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie ",
 "like trying to eat brussels sprouts ",
 "in a new way ",
 "is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there 's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year . ",
 "literal ",
 "emotional force ",
 "an eye-boggling blend ",
 "most aggressive and most sincere attempt ",
 "parents beware ; ",
 "the worst movie i 've seen this summer ",
 "for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything ",
 "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 ",
 "unsurprising ",
 "an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ",
 "strange and beautiful film ",
 "amazingly successful ",
 "compulsively watchable ",
 "'s difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting ",
 "the movie 's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ",
 "tiresome jokes ",
 "ultimately losing cause ",
 "knows how a daily grind can kill love ",
 "is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . ",
 "of the human heart ",
 "ever so gracefully -- ",
 "wheezy ",
 "there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs ",
 "the wisdom and humor ",
 "a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con ",
 "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 . ",
 "it 's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . ",
 "a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences ",
 "goes right ",
 "appealing blend ",
 "a couple hours of summertime ",
 "its demented premise ",
 "it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . ",
 "some soul ",
 "is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow ",
 "kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . ",
 "the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed ",
 "by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times ",
 "the gifted pearce on hand ",
 "is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing ",
 "for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . ",
 "it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion ",
 "bordering on confessional ",
 "jaw-dropping action sequences , ",
 "going to face frightening late fees ",
 "fun-loving libertine ",
 "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 ",
 "( madonna 's ) denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",
 "with a momentum that never lets up ",
 "biographical melodramas ",
 "with some powerful people ",
 "that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots ",
 "heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and ",
 "take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that ",
 "sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama ",
 "knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying ",
 "mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life ",
 "lucid work ",
 "it , offering fine acting moments and pungent ",
 ", unforced ",
 "little-known perspective ",
 "of entertainment that parents love to have their kids ",
 "which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful ",
 "life affirming and heartbreaking ",
 "hard-to-predict and absolutely essential ",
 "lagaan ",
 "( gayton 's script ) telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . ",
 "it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead ",
 "if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you 're far better served by the source material . ",
 "balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident ",
 "the charismatic jackie chan ",
 "to a picture-perfect beach ",
 "it 's not just a feel-good movie , it 's a feel movie . ",
 "in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance ",
 "a snore and ",
 "an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and ",
 "one word that best describes this film : honest ",
 "sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth ",
 "on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc. , without the latter 's imagination , visual charm or texture . ",
 "document ",
 "harrowing and uplifting ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "is enjoyable family fare ",
 "wonderful performances ",
 "transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor ",
 "is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price ",
 "depressed fifteen-year-old 's ",
 "sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and ",
 "has a compelling story to tell . ",
 "unlike lots of hollywood fluff ",
 "the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i 'd care to count . ",
 "you 've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation ",
 "into a really funny movie ",
 "like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long ",
 "the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham 's novel ) ",
 "pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy ... ",
 "was utterly charming ",
 ", more playful tone ",
 "a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . ",
 "wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",
 "otherwise , this could be a passable date film . ",
 "only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters ",
 "has no clue about making a movie ",
 "does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end ",
 "it 's not bad prose ",
 "interesting and at times captivating ",
 "seem irritatingly transparent ",
 "the extreme generation ' ",
 "designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus ",
 "the down-to-earth bullock ",
 "from `` promising ",
 ", you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . ",
 "made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience ",
 "while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part ",
 "determination and the human spirit ",
 "you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with ",
 "the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant ",
 "time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` clockstoppers , '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . ",
 "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 . '' ",
 "it 's all quite tasteful to look at ",
 "that gives hollywood sequels a bad name ",
 "is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . ",
 "immaculately ",
 "rank with its worthy predecessors ",
 "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 ",
 "is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating ",
 "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 ",
 "the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , ",
 "his passion ",
 "listless , witless , and devoid of anything ",
 ", involving aragorn 's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . ",
 "farm melodrama . ",
 "basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when ` angels with dirty faces ' appeared in 1938 ",
 "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 . ",
 "star script ",
 "tossed in ",
 "finds a nice rhythm . ",
 "if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences ",
 "the auteur 's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . ",
 "he 's a better actor than a standup comedian . ",
 "to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks ",
 "newcastle , the first half of gangster no. 1 drips with style and ",
 "lumbering , wheezy ",
 "an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees ",
 "its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious ",
 "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 . ",
 "for all its shoot-outs ",
 "'s often overwritten ",
 "whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone ",
 "begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully ",
 "a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they ",
 "too indulgent ",
 "of a fanciful motion picture ",
 "the most consistently funny of the austin powers films ",
 "sit through it all ",
 "stale and uninspired . ",
 "there is n't much there here . ",
 "genuinely funny ",
 "broomfield is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and ",
 "good sweat ",
 "self-righteousness ",
 "hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old ",
 "out of reach ",
 "probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent ",
 "it is a whole lot of fun and ",
 "'s sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong ",
 "'s really well directed ",
 "have tremendous chemistry ",
 "an uncomfortable experience , ",
 "sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons ",
 "inventive director ",
 "offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . ",
 "though it 's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and ",
 ", it is a failure . ",
 "an awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism ",
 "is worth your time , especially ",
 "'ll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . ",
 "the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises . ",
 "the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . ",
 "israeli/palestinian conflict as ",
 "you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably ",
 "barely tolerable slog ",
 "cagney 's ` top of the world ' ",
 "chilling style ",
 "a fascinating , unnerving examination ",
 "whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen . ",
 "this animated adventure ",
 "the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . ",
 "more outre aspects ",
 "an all-around good time ",
 "hoary ",
 "rife with miscalculations ",
 "a touching , transcendent love story ",
 "satisfactorily ",
 "its own cuteness ",
 "by a talented director ",
 "simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances . ",
 "the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . ",
 "is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . ",
 "there is precious little of either . ",
 "narrative discipline ",
 "catapulting the artist ",
 "pete 's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",
 "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 . ",
 "traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at ",
 "thrown-together ",
 "sharper ",
 "go anywhere new , ",
 "not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans . ",
 "hard-pressed ",
 "the preaching message ",
 "uncommonly sincere ",
 "the most inventive ",
 "warm , moving message ",
 "by proving that he 's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary ",
 "to the idiocy of its last frames ",
 "be more genial than ingenious ",
 "a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions ",
 "hopkins/rock collision ",
 "an adrenaline boost ",
 "a long , unfunny one ",
 "can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' ",
 "the minds and hearts of many ",
 "craziness ",
 "an unsettling sight , ",
 "there 's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . ",
 "wildly overproduced ",
 "unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck ",
 "work -- is charming ",
 "crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary ",
 "do n'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 ",
 "is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships ",
 "suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . ",
 "trailer-trash style ",
 "listless direction ",
 "this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ",
 "cheapo animation ",
 "the ranks ",
 "do n't need to try very hard ",
 "as padded as allen 's jelly belly ",
 "will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy ",
 "be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it ",
 "i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . ",
 "is difficult to fathom ",
 "ms. bullock 's best work ",
 "`` solaris '' is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . ",
 "crimes ",
 "is conversational bordering on confessional ",
 "tolerance and diversity ",
 "be careful what you wish for ",
 "lower i.q. ",
 "ill-equipped ",
 "the beauty and power ",
 "offers few surprises ",
 "not everything ",
 ", its shortness disappoints ",
 "the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . ",
 "a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian ... ",
 "the worst sense of the expression ",
 "the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle ",
 "a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ",
 "slyly exquisite ",
 "overlong documentary ",
 "is too insistent ",
 "watch the film twice ",
 "fiendishly ",
 "tidal ",
 "the movie 's messages are quite admirable ",
 "is supremely unfunny and unentertaining ",
 "of genuine insight into the urban heart ",
 "had a lot of problems with this movie . ",
 "prime ",
 "phenomenal , ",
 "their own rhythm ",
 "turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",
 "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 ",
 "'ll still have a good time . ",
 "hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film ",
 "sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it . ",
 "too smug ",
 "timelessness ",
 "the chocolate factory without charlie . ",
 "'' is the operative word for `` bad company ",
 "proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy ",
 "an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",
 "and artistically inept ",
 ", meditative ",
 "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 ' . ",
 "good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , ",
 "seen it all before ",
 "incessant ",
 "suited to a quiet evening on pbs ",
 "to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy ",
 ", in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life ",
 "( hayek ) ",
 "pale xerox of other , better crime movies . ",
 "much more watchable ",
 "a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . ' ",
 "current americanized adaptation ",
 "anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor ",
 "constantly touching , surprisingly funny , ",
 "its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and ",
 "unbearable ",
 "ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community . ",
 "by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness ",
 "for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1/2 ",
 "is deadly dull ",
 "gloomy film noir veil ",
 "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 ",
 "i have returned from the beyond to warn you ",
 "-- from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified ",
 "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . ",
 "a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock ",
 "a 60-second homage ",
 "thought that the german film industry can not make a delightful comedy centering on food . ",
 "enervating ",
 "no level whatsoever for me ",
 "touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot ",
 "love the robust middle of this picture . ",
 "eloquence , spiritual challenge ",
 "raw urban humor ",
 "aimless , arduous , ",
 "the only pain ",
 "lulls you into a gentle waking coma ",
 "precocious ",
 "own pretentious self-examination ",
 "about the best straight-up ",
 "to the otherwise bleak tale ",
 "a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . ",
 "a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . ",
 "the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , ",
 ") ",
 "the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 . ",
 ", with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling . ",
 "french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition ",
 "an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humor and reinforcement of stereotypes ",
 "an ugly , revolting movie ",
 "a dim-witted and lazy spin-off ",
 "is n't as funny as it should be ",
 "this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . ",
 "are mesmerizing ",
 "highest production values ",
 "has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . ",
 "without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue ",
 "impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats ",
 "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 . ",
 "one-trick pony ",
 "the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine ",
 "journalistic or historical ",
 "great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . ",
 "even if you do n'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 . ",
 "integrity ",
 "dim-witted and lazy spin-off ",
 "trusts the story it sets out to tell ",
 "great fun ",
 "making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time ",
 ", alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . ",
 "be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy ",
 "just a kiss is a just a waste . ",
 "this little $ 1.8 million charmer ",
 "may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed ",
 "swimfan does catch on ",
 "impersonal and abstract ",
 "of a war zone ",
 "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 ",
 "one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , ",
 "self-conscious art drivel ",
 "an impenetrable and insufferable ball ",
 "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 ",
 "feel like it 's wasted yours ",
 "the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the ( teen comedy ) genre a bad name . ",
 "without ever being self-important ",
 "startling story ",
 "puzzle his most ardent fans ",
 "shows crushingly little curiosity about , ",
 "narcissism and ",
 "so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside ",
 "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 . ",
 "comes off as annoying rather than charming ",
 "the major problem ",
 "depressingly retrograde ",
 "crisp , unaffected style ",
 "over-indulgent tirade ",
 "whimsicality , narrative discipline and ",
 "shockingly bad ",
 "is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged ",
 "moving and stark ",
 "the worst thing ",
 "amazingly evocative film ",
 "a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant ",
 "is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep ",
 "an awfully good , achingly human picture ",
 "a documentary and more propaganda ",
 "in looking at the comic effects of jealousy ",
 "broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . ",
 "resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue ",
 "insane ",
 "while banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad ",
 "one of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . ",
 "a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny ",
 "is that rare animal known as ' a perfect family film ",
 "into a dullard ",
 "as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting ",
 "bad bluescreen ",
 "aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats ",
 "lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this ",
 "into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie ",
 "found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent ",
 "'s mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here ",
 "various amusing sidekicks ",
 "-- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english ",
 "wise and deadpan humorous . ",
 "spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don ' t ",
 "writing , skewed characters , ",
 "the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see . ",
 "looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus ",
 "'' feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",
 "in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . ",
 "the gutless direction by laurice guillen ",
 "the imagined glory of their own pasts ",
 "in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile ",
 "too few ",
 "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 . ",
 "works so well for the first 89 minutes , ",
 "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 . ",
 "the cast is phenomenal , especially the women . ",
 "hooked ",
 "aan opportunity wasted . ",
 "are missing -- ",
 "bring off this kind of whimsy ",
 "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team ",
 "into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem ",
 "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 ",
 "( the leads ) are such a companionable couple ",
 "riveting and handsomely ",
 "an unseemly pleasure ",
 "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 genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism ",
 "when it is n't incomprehensible ",
 "a conventional but heartwarming tale ",
 "comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on showtime 's ` red shoe diaries . ",
 "is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and ",
 "animated filmmaking since old walt ",
 "effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",
 "creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- ",
 "a slam-dunk ",
 "little less bling-bling and a lot more ",
 "this slight premise ",
 "pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate ",
 "so badly made on every level ",
 "he feels like a spectator and not a participant ",
 "brimming ",
 "gripping performances by lane and gere ",
 "of intelligent humor ",
 "well-meaning , beautifully produced film ",
 "conceited pap ",
 "other , better movies ",
 "loss and denial and life-at-arm 's - ",
 "cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels ",
 "scoob ",
 "sharply ",
 "muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . ",
 "catapulting ",
 "seem self-consciously poetic and ",
 "keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart ",
 "inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , ",
 "represents two of those well spent ",
 "despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie ",
 "has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him ",
 "some talented performers ",
 "appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , ",
 "a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . ",
 "fills time ",
 "exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza ",
 "to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine ",
 "a sensitive , modest comic tragedy ",
 "halfway intriguing plot ",
 "another best ",
 "a christmas perennial ",
 "crawls along at a snail 's pace ",
 "a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life ",
 "it 's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",
 ", touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot ",
 "`` empire '' lacks in depth ",
 "would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire ",
 "beautifully read ",
 "can take credit for most of the movie 's success . ",
 "a waste ",
 "sweet and memorable film . ",
 "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 . ",
 "good cinematography ",
 "miracles , ",
 "the film ultimately fails ",
 "drown yourself in a lake ",
 "to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing ",
 "stand as intellectual masterpieces ",
 "it 's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` tonight . '' ",
 "immense ",
 ", i enjoyed it just as much ! ",
 "schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins ",
 "rich performances ",
 "to pull his head out of his butt ",
 "is so thoughtlessly assembled ",
 "pascale bailly 's rom-com provides am\u00e9lie 's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest . ",
 "original ",
 "it 's an ambitious film ",
 "one senses ",
 "farts , urine , ",
 "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 ",
 "the latest vapid actor 's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler 's reigen . ",
 "to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative ",
 "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 ",
 "fascinating film ",
 "a moratorium ",
 "spirit , perception , conviction ",
 "an even less capable trio ",
 "ambitious ` ",
 "the first bond movie in ages that is n't fake fun ",
 "be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other ",
 "a pleasing verisimilitude ",
 "not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . ",
 "its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . ",
 "is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil ",
 "this loser ",
 "the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation ",
 "the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable ",
 "to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images ",
 "it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind ",
 "its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades ",
 "a spirit ",
 "his sweetness and vulnerability ",
 "the mark of a documentary that works ",
 "hope britney wo n't do it one more time , as far as ",
 "could hate it for the same reason ",
 "key strength ",
 "sucks , but has a funny moment or two . ",
 "here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . ",
 "a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration ",
 "the edge of your seat for long stretches ",
 "a stunning film ",
 "none of them memorable ",
 ", stylized humor throughout ",
 "is both inspiring and pure joy ",
 "like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . ",
 "than anything that 's been done before ",
 "cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory . ",
 "is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just ",
 "filled with honest performances and exceptional detail ",
 "it 's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess . ",
 "hard-won rewards ",
 "is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious ",
 "( jeff 's ) gorgeous , ",
 "not to be moved by this drama ",
 ", if good-hearted , movie . ",
 "it were any more of a turkey ",
 "is enormously good fun ",
 "by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil ",
 "preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film ",
 "have a 90-minute , four-star movie ",
 "this emotional misery ",
 "a moving and weighty depiction ",
 "its cutesy reliance ",
 "provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . ",
 "self-deprecating ",
 "too erotic nor very thrilling ",
 "energized ",
 "the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film ",
 ", gritty , sometimes funny ",
 "depressing , ruthlessly pained ",
 "be an astronaut ",
 "would look like something like this ",
 "'s a sheer unbridled delight in the way ",
 "of grief and loss ",
 "has thrown every suspenseful clich\u00e9 in the book at this nonsensical story ",
 "a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you 're a struggling nobody . ",
 "could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ",
 "is not ",
 "mean-spirited and wryly observant . ",
 "very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . ",
 "the modern master of the chase sequence ",
 "fiery ",
 "the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection . ",
 "too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet ",
 "lacks in eye-popping visuals ",
 "the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , ",
 "too loud , ",
 "is a really special walk in the woods ",
 "would have a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 loaded with credits like `` girl in bar # 3 . '' ",
 "are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort ",
 "of the lightweight female empowerment ",
 "debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . ",
 "rich details ",
 "bound to show up at theaters for it ",
 "the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story ",
 "deliberate laughs ",
 "in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack ",
 "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 ",
 "the perfect starting point ",
 "shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about ",
 "the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . ",
 "the comic effects of jealousy ",
 "awkward structure ",
 "cheap , b movie way ",
 "with us ",
 "what punk rock music used to be ",
 "versace ",
 "breathes more ",
 "the script and characters hold sway ",
 "the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; ",
 "the tedium ",
 "got a house full of tots -- do n't worry ",
 "exploitative and ",
 "devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry ",
 "might enjoy this ",
 "green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment ",
 "real turns ",
 "is spooky and subtly in love with myth ",
 "there 's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . ",
 "you can practically hear george orwell turning over . ",
 "several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . ",
 "begins with promise , ",
 "smart and alert ",
 "the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline ",
 ", blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . ",
 "arresting ",
 "a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort ",
 "ultra-violent ",
 "an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed ",
 "decorous ",
 "is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work ",
 "population ",
 "then blood work is for you . ",
 "keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good ",
 "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 . ",
 ", no one can hear you snore ",
 "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 ) . ",
 "tackled a meaty subject ",
 "a bad film ",
 "for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . ",
 "with promise ",
 "just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer ",
 "far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , ",
 "a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers . ",
 "odd , rapt spell ",
 "shameless self-caricature ",
 "enthusiasm , ",
 "got me grinning . ",
 "fly with most intelligent viewers ",
 "walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like ",
 "sexiness ",
 "will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product ",
 "realized through clever makeup design ",
 "re-creation ",
 "raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit ",
 "ever knew about generating suspense ",
 "the primitive murderer ",
 "unmentionable ",
 "bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters ",
 "leave a lasting impression ",
 "reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a `` cooler '' pg-13 rating ",
 "that the film is never dull ",
 "the actors are fantastic . ",
 "of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry ",
 "produce another smash ",
 "it makes you feel like a chump ",
 "an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it ",
 "is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . ",
 "of warmth ",
 "noble failure . ",
 "to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions ",
 "ultimately disappoint the action ",
 "this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain ",
 "best actors ",
 "attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one ",
 "just offensive ",
 "never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it ",
 "stinks from start ",
 "of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone ",
 "makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , ",
 "the cinematic canon , ",
 "... 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 . ",
 "to a small star with big heart ",
 "highly gifted 12-year-old ",
 "are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls ",
 "listen to extremist name-calling , ",
 "so bad in a major movie ",
 "a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . ",
 "to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads ",
 "creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness ",
 "like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on ",
 "at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and ",
 "innocent and ",
 "obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque . ",
 "recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile ",
 "as good a job as anyone ",
 "in a bad-movie way ",
 "found a cult favorite ",
 "this long and relentlessly saccharine film ",
 "flourishes ",
 "canny and spiced ",
 "the very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure ",
 "about as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man ",
 "ararat far more demanding than it needs to be ",
 "lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . ",
 "with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character 's gripping humanity ",
 "'s the worst movie of 2002 ",
 ", dull procession ",
 "expected ",
 "'s a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",
 "is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , ",
 "a brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . ",
 "bogging down ",
 "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 . ",
 "exhaustingly ",
 "the thing about guys like evans is this : you 're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . ",
 "done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen ",
 "share ",
 "the journey to the secret 's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough ",
 "humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath 's version of ` nicholas nickleby ' ",
 "lush ",
 "extremely unpleasant ",
 "of the things costner movies are known for ",
 "both a great and a terrible story ",
 "a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller ",
 "a hit ",
 "more likely ",
 "roman polanski may have been born to make ",
 "almost peerlessly unsettling . ",
 "in alcatraz ' ... a cinematic corpse that never springs to life ",
 "black indomitability ",
 "is spooky and subtly ",
 "a slight and uninventive movie ",
 "it 's far from fresh-squeezed ",
 "uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest ",
 "becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if . '' ",
 "with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes ",
 "where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . ",
 "to see how far herzog has fallen ",
 "is a big time stinker ",
 "entertaining ride ",
 "starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . ",
 "halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . ",
 "takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . ",
 "comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile ",
 "put up with 146 minutes of it ",
 "while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . ",
 "yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . ",
 "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 ",
 "my little eye is the best little `` horror '' movie i 've seen in years . ",
 "picture that does not move . ",
 "cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and ",
 "an odd show , pregnant with moods , ",
 "a powerful 1957 drama ",
 "in eye-popping visuals ",
 "this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . ",
 "a delicious and delicately funny look ",
 "for two movies ",
 "'s a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one ",
 "there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it 's going to be a trip . ",
 "belly laugh ",
 "'d much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ",
 "sublimely beautiful ",
 "boring , pretentious muddle ",
 "in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion ",
 "every once in a while a film ",
 "gradually sneaks up on the audience ",
 "a coming-of-age tale ",
 "think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . ",
 "the charming result ",
 "the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed ",
 "to huston 's revelatory performance ",
 "i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british ",
 "goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ",
 "is loopy and ludicrous ",
 "'d be lying if i said my ribcage did n't ache by the end of kung pow ",
 "we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in fire that makes the formula fresh again ",
 "the excruciating end of days ",
 "all arty and jazzy ",
 "too many barney videos ",
 "consistently sensitive and ",
 "america , history ",
 "into brutally labored and unfunny hokum ",
 "a work of deft and subtle poetry ",
 "for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . ",
 "scare ",
 "you 'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . ",
 "does n't even have potential as a cult film , as it 's too loud to shout insults at the screen ",
 "her pure fantasy character , ",
 "turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme ",
 "forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , ",
 "romantic , riveting and handsomely animated . ",
 "is truth ",
 "second , what 's with all the shooting ? ",
 "an uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendor that can be seen in other films based on philip k. dick stories . ",
 "amusing , but ultimately so ",
 "in a more ambitious movie ",
 "that it 's so not-at-all-good ",
 "has rewards , ",
 "and pulp melodrama ",
 "vietnam war ",
 "bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness ",
 "just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and ",
 "prepare to marvel again . ",
 "and communicates something ",
 "help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something ",
 "this movie directionless ",
 "the past via surrealist flourishes ",
 "tiring than anything ",
 "joy ",
 "ultimate insignificance ",
 "eventually the content is n't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",
 "suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh ",
 "certainly ",
 "indie tatters and self-conscious seams ",
 ", i 'll admit it , my only complaint is that we did n't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",
 "a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation ",
 "the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , ",
 "overuse ",
 "dopey dialogue ",
 "high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",
 "less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . ",
 "to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting ",
 "amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . ",
 ", evelyn comes from the heart . ",
 "tries for more . ",
 "by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",
 "sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they 'd need a shower . ",
 "the history is fascinating ; ",
 "dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent ",
 "carries us effortlessly from darkness to light ",
 "you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` ah , yes ",
 "drowns out ",
 "fessenden continues to do interesting work , and ",
 "armed with a game supporting cast , ",
 "the film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",
 "and wai ka fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests ",
 "the worst film of the year . ",
 "a moving essay about the specter of death , especially suicide . ",
 "comes across as a fairly weak retooling ",
 "'s crafty , energetic and smart ",
 "structured and well-realized ",
 "rouses us . ",
 "sinks to a harrison ford low . ",
 "the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . ",
 "the whole thing never existed ",
 ", funny and beautifully ",
 ", simple and soapy ",
 "holland lets things peter out midway , but it 's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . ",
 "repeating what he 's already done way too often ",
 "efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . ",
 "whimsical ",
 "unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope ",
 "leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach ",
 "fifth beer-soaked film ",
 "audacious-impossible yet compelling ... ",
 "masterly ",
 "welcome with audiences ",
 "can not 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 ",
 "one of the more influential works of the ` korean new wave ' ",
 "a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable ",
 "mind-bending ",
 "uncanny tale ",
 "created a monster ",
 "is n't nearly as funny ",
 "a powerful and telling story that examines ",
 "grace ",
 "do n't even bother to rent this on video . ",
 "reveals itself slowly , ",
 "take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters ",
 "of self-congratulation between actor and director ",
 "it 's uninteresting . ",
 "bad luck and ",
 "is visually smart ",
 "is more fun than conan the barbarian . ",
 "it the most ",
 "the saccharine sentimentality ",
 "most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial ",
 "captures a life interestingly lived ",
 "naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; ",
 "hooks us completely ",
 "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 . ",
 "peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",
 "was lazy but enjoyable ",
 "poo . ",
 "has a rather unique approach to documentary . ",
 "deafening ",
 "little to salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation ",
 "'s undeniably hard to follow ",
 "is a riveting , brisk delight ",
 "wonderful subject ",
 "dinner guest ",
 "an affectionately goofy satire that 's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary ",
 "tender sermon ",
 ", the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . ",
 "her welcome in her most charmless performance ",
 "a cultural wildcard experience ",
 "outrageously creative action ",
 "retro-refitting exercise ",
 "big letdown ",
 "plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults ",
 "stands for milder is n't better ",
 "more fascinating look ",
 "we 're touched by the film 's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport ",
 "the perkiness of witherspoon ",
 "one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",
 "undone by howard 's self-conscious attempts ",
 "nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and ",
 "cool stuff ",
 "everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . ",
 "a big corner office in hell ",
 "the values of knowledge , education , and the ",
 "is more accurately chabrolian . ",
 "confused ",
 "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 . ",
 "proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",
 "even murphy 's expert comic timing and ",
 "closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel ",
 "the inherent absurdity ",
 "structured and ",
 "and unforgettable characters ",
 "geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity ",
 "too boring and obvious ",
 "to seduce and conquer ",
 "'s muy loco , but no more ridiculous ",
 "is frequently overwrought and crudely literal ",
 "allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors ",
 "self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music ",
 "to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances ",
 "big stars and high production values ",
 "is essentially an extended soap opera ",
 "is n't much to it ",
 "to be dismissed ",
 "some kid who ca n't act , only ",
 "builds its multi-character story with a flourish ",
 "to much more than trite observations on the human condition ",
 "and social commentary ",
 "is fontaine 's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",
 "barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . ",
 "no trouble sitting for blade ii ",
 "her pure fantasy character ",
 ", with a solid cast , ",
 "thoroughly awful ",
 "nearly terminal case ",
 "has enough moments to keep it entertaining . ",
 "horror/action hybrid ",
 "that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew ",
 "is nearly incoherent ",
 "something of a triumph ",
 "the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority ",
 "the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . ",
 "with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future ",
 "graceless and ",
 "would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ",
 "( a ) painfully flat gross-out comedy ... ",
 "call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity . ",
 "but a little too smugly superior ",
 "raffish charm ",
 "unnoticed and underappreciated ",
 "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 ",
 "more than satisfactory ",
 ", for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . ",
 "often heartbreaking ",
 "takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks ",
 "is even better than the fellowship ",
 "again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent ",
 ", the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake . ",
 "at the screen in frustration ",
 "lightly entertaining ",
 "a mess ",
 "-- sadly -- dull ",
 "i 'd be lying if i said my ribcage did n't ache by the end of kung pow . ",
 "the movie is well crafted , and well executed . ",
 "shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait ",
 "a sermon for most of its running time ",
 "road to perdition does display greatness ",
 "depressed about anything before watching this film ",
 "looks genuinely pretty ",
 "never rises to its clever what-if concept . ",
 "coos beseechingly ",
 "chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . ",
 "consistently sensitive ",
 "raise audience 's spirits ",
 "when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ",
 "look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . ",
 "self-consciously arty ",
 "there is nothing redeeming about this movie . ",
 "has its moments -- and almost as many subplots ",
 "parker 's creative interference ",
 "finely ",
 "the highs and lows ",
 "one of the all-time great apocalypse movies ",
 "all the same problems the majority of action comedies have ",
 "wonderful ",
 "is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . ",
 "lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- ",
 "sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special ",
 "moving portrait ",
 "premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings ",
 "makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty ",
 "franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler ",
 "on a group of extremely talented musicians ",
 "if hill is n'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\u00e9 . ",
 "puzzle whose pieces do not fit ",
 "has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just ",
 "sci-fi thriller ",
 "is a monumental achievement ",
 "spiffy ",
 "progressed as nicely as ` wayne ",
 "is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",
 "that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse ",
 "cheery and tranquil suburban life ",
 "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 ",
 "the victims ",
 "this film 's impressive performances and ",
 ", amusing ",
 "provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision ",
 "of puerile ",
 "an appealing couple -- ",
 "doing nothing ",
 "a time machine , a journey back to your childhood ",
 "strongest ",
 "story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . ",
 "a fascinating character 's ",
 "god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' ",
 "'ll still have a good time ",
 "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 ",
 "is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . ",
 "life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad ",
 "a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . ",
 "the filmmaker would disagree ",
 "manages to string together enough charming moments to work ",
 "its make-believe promise of life ",
 "it 's a dark , gritty story but ",
 ", i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",
 "comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is ",
 "forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about ",
 "the the wisdom and humor of its subjects ",
 "this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , ",
 "has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced ",
 "come to earth ",
 "blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . ",
 "a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? ",
 "a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman 's clothes ",
 "sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . ",
 "neat trick ",
 "the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject ",
 "a deceptively simple premise ",
 "it all looks and plays like a $ 40 million version of a game you 're more likely to enjoy on a computer . ",
 "is way , way off ",
 "could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 ",
 "pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators ",
 "in a dead-end existence ",
 "on other levels ",
 "revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway ",
 "spreading a puritanical brand of christianity ",
 "eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you 've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . ",
 "there are some laughs in this movie , but ",
 "outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and ",
 "the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . ",
 "nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",
 "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 ",
 "unforgivingly ",
 "sense is a movie that deserves recommendation ",
 "all mood and no movie . ",
 "masters of both ",
 "interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot ",
 "does n't always jell with sean penn 's monotone narration ",
 "as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die ",
 "of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes ",
 "the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture ",
 "is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor ",
 "fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them ",
 "inconsequential ",
 "an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless ",
 "stomach-knotting suspense ",
 "philosophers , not ",
 "right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",
 "of american pie hijinks ",
 "on badly-rendered cgi effects ",
 "from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing ",
 "enhances the personal touch of manual animation . ",
 "unique and quirky ",
 "by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior ",
 "managed to convey a tiny sense of hope ",
 "is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense ",
 "bad , bad movie ",
 "a sobering meditation ",
 "fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , ",
 "you are wet in some places ",
 "caddyshack ",
 "no excuse ",
 "make you think about existential suffering ",
 "better actor ",
 "very amusing ",
 "a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ",
 ", like max rothman 's future , does not work . ",
 "a career-defining revelation ",
 "favor of tradition and warmth ",
 "to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best ",
 "like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama ",
 "it 's worth yet another visit ",
 ", there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone . ",
 "surprisingly charming and even witty match ",
 "pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . ",
 "does not translate well to the screen ",
 "have banged their brains into the ground so frequently ",
 "something i would rather live in denial about ",
 "as though they are having so much fun ",
 "may be disappointed . ",
 "a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama ",
 "seeking christian-themed fun ",
 "never wanted to leave . ",
 "a pleasing , often-funny comedy . ",
 "off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",
 "for violence ",
 "shock-you-into-laughter intensity ",
 "beautiful ",
 "a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and ",
 "especially disappointing ",
 "suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . ",
 "sparking debate and encouraging thought ",
 "a solid formula for successful animated movies ",
 "should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . ",
 "pg-13 ",
 "crazy , mixed-up films ",
 "morally ",
 "reveals itself slowly , intelligently ",
 "drumline ' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . ",
 "although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . ",
 "would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film ",
 "would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further ",
 "destined to be measured against anthony asquith 's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ",
 "-- ever so gracefully -- ",
 "character creations ",
 "avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . ",
 "intelligent , caustic ",
 "their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary ",
 "recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . ",
 "seems suited neither to kids or adults ",
 "that it 's a brazenly misguided project ",
 "finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore ",
 "a set of heartfelt performances ",
 "solid movie ",
 "droning ",
 "this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ... ",
 "in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that is n't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",
 "able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man ",
 "must be the end of the world ",
 "real human soul ",
 "a fine-looking film ",
 "generate a lot of energy ",
 "tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . ",
 "a useless movie ",
 "are clinically depressed ",
 "a moldy-oldie , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it - thinks-it-is joke ",
 "viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . ",
 "a captivatingly quirky hybrid ",
 "makes for a touching love story ",
 "writer-director douglas mcgrath 's even-toned direction ",
 "is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string ",
 "it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come ",
 "could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls ",
 "'s even more remarkable ",
 "real ",
 "well-made and satisfying ",
 "for the quirky ",
 "whatever flaws igby goes down may possess ",
 "the premise of `` abandon '' holds promise , ... but ",
 "it was particularly funny ",
 "intelligent flick ",
 "freshman ",
 "as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man ",
 "using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook ",
 "a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace ",
 "thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett 's familiar quotations ",
 "sleaziness ",
 "is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time ",
 ", directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",
 "a good film ",
 "the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat ",
 "enjoy the movie ",
 "of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise ",
 "alternative housing options ",
 "when it 's this rich and luscious ",
 "leaden and dull ",
 "keep you wide awake and ... very tense ",
 "deeply pessimistic ",
 "smile-button ",
 "gives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel ",
 "poetic , heartbreaking . ",
 "deep , uncompromising ",
 "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 . ",
 "disney ",
 "and much better ",
 "his machismo ",
 "have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy ",
 "is that it 's a rock-solid little genre picture . ",
 "dogged ",
 "into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through ",
 "a sappy , preachy one ",
 "the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film ",
 "to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be ",
 "hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . ",
 "a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted ",
 "imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ",
 "badly-rendered ",
 "an architect of pop culture ",
 "awkwardly contrived exercise ",
 "the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy ",
 "it can be safely recommended as a video/dvd babysitter . ",
 "marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it ",
 "one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times ",
 "a screenplay to die for ",
 "stands a good chance of being the big ",
 "a clear-eyed ",
 "rock solid family fun out of the gates ",
 "watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises ",
 "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 ",
 "by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . ",
 "is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm ",
 "a dungpile ",
 "gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior ",
 "lie ",
 ", it 's just grating ",
 "no reason for being ",
 "director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags . ",
 "succeed merrily ",
 "by bad writing ",
 "she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground ",
 "a high-spirited buddy movie ",
 "oddballs ",
 "the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",
 "that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker ",
 "this fascinating look ",
 "of high romance , brought off with considerable wit ",
 "over-familiarity ",
 "a spectacular performance - ahem ",
 "scary and sad ",
 "elegantly ",
 "the best war movies ever made ",
 "no , i do n'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 . ",
 "like its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",
 "'s good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",
 "that the film 's length becomes a part of its fun ",
 "warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it . ",
 "to our dismay ",
 "little time ",
 "is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ",
 "little too obvious , but ",
 "crawlies ",
 "the brutality ",
 "before long , you 're desperate for the evening to end . ",
 "a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . ",
 "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 . ",
 "crap like this ",
 "'s certainly laudable ",
 "sucks you ",
 "a good yarn ",
 "too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary ",
 "its worst harangues ",
 "oddly colorful ",
 "strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but ",
 "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 . ",
 "an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress ",
 "suspenseful enough for older kids but ",
 "too much time ",
 "desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s ",
 "unexpected fable ",
 "off-puttingly cold ",
 "( depending upon where you live ) ",
 "well-thought stunts or a car chase ",
 "almost perpetually wasted characters ",
 "its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor ",
 "pass this stinker off ",
 "most edgy ",
 "thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd ",
 "that he 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh ",
 "a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence ",
 "innocent , childlike ",
 "'ll need a stronger stomach than us ",
 "unambitious writing ",
 "enjoy as mild escapism ",
 "about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances ",
 "the class warfare ",
 "all of dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , ",
 "counting a few gross-out comedies i 've been trying to forget ",
 "the worthy successor to a better tomorrow ",
 "is funny ",
 "such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema ",
 "high-minded appeal ",
 "an entertaining and informative documentary ",
 "funny and wise ",
 "is off-putting ",
 "pleasurable ",
 "it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 . ",
 "no business going ",
 "just so the documentary will be over ",
 "the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . ",
 "remains fairly light , ",
 "baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic ",
 "the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters ",
 "to the serbs themselves ",
 "the world 's best actors , daniel auteuil ",
 "succeeds in making neither ",
 "monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids ",
 "a good thing ",
 ", like its title character , is repellantly out of control . ",
 "to keep letting go at all the wrong moments ",
 "that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . ",
 "to churn out one mediocre movie after another ",
 "yeah , baby ",
 "no fantasy story ",
 "its apparent glee ",
 "feel pissed off ",
 "sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit ",
 "will probably be in wedgie heaven . ",
 "bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy 's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . ",
 "offering fine acting moments and pungent ",
 "uplifting ",
 "funniest american comedy ",
 "is a refreshingly forthright one ",
 "about female friendship that men can embrace and women ",
 "an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world ",
 "rival the filmmaker 's period pieces ",
 "emotional comfort ",
 "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 . ",
 "full of surprises ",
 "amused by its special effects ",
 "so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type ",
 "as if drop dead gorgeous was n't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . ",
 "last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise ",
 "the full monty was a freshman fluke ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "-- and timely ",
 "nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals ",
 "an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller ",
 "was reading the minds of the audience . ",
 "add up to a biting satire that has no teeth ",
 "surprisingly sensitive ",
 "winning portrayal ",
 "cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky 's diaries . ",
 "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 ) ",
 "'s film ' in the worst sense of the expression ",
 ", one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",
 "distinguishable ",
 "partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . ",
 "here 's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . ",
 "cell phones , guns , and ",
 ", cry and realize , ",
 "but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity ",
 "biting and witty feature ",
 "on a board ",
 "the costuming of the stars ",
 "excruciating film ",
 "catches dramatic fire . ",
 "she ca n't provide any conflict ",
 "far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , ",
 "'s a shame ",
 "pathetically ",
 "an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . ",
 "comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter ",
 "a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work ",
 "far bigger , far more meaningful story ",
 "we had no trouble sitting for blade ii . ",
 "how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring ",
 "completely awful ",
 "but quietly effective ",
 "find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish ",
 "a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey comedy ",
 "been so aggressively anti-erotic ",
 "a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . ",
 "that should be relegated to a dark video store corner ",
 "the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all ",
 "buoyant romantic comedy ",
 "the three leads produce adequate performances , ",
 "this junk ",
 "any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one ",
 "the songs translate well to film ",
 "so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , ",
 "hot topics ",
 "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 . ",
 "is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin ",
 "makes a melodramatic mountain ",
 "has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne ",
 "also has many of the things that made the first one charming . ",
 "a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light ",
 "somewhat satisfying ",
 "to include anything even halfway scary ",
 "equally assured ",
 "a thing that already knows it 's won ",
 "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 . ",
 "whipping out the dirty words ",
 "it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and ",
 "the predictability ",
 "`` elling '' manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases ",
 "fahrenheit 451 ",
 "the film becomes predictably conventional . ",
 "a cheap , ludicrous attempt ",
 "is this bad on purpose ",
 "at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting ",
 "thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances ",
 "propels ",
 "make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season ",
 "i 'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , ",
 "i enjoyed . ",
 "to be more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film ",
 "it 's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it 's started ",
 "complications ",
 "when one has nothing else to watch ",
 "of your seat , tense with suspense ",
 "picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . ",
 "it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls ",
 "lousy one ",
 "imagination and insight ",
 "but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg 's 1993 classic . ",
 "hardly watchable ",
 "scott 's convincing portrayal ",
 "the actors are simply too good ",
 "conventional , but well-crafted film ",
 "admirable storyteller ",
 "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 ",
 "birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while ",
 "an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance ",
 "even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring ",
 "does n't have a passion for the material ",
 "might actually want to watch . ",
 "comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . ",
 ", is extraordinary . ",
 "'s black hawk down with more heart . ",
 "who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up ",
 "tries to seem sincere , and just ",
 "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 . ",
 "naomi watts is terrific as rachel ",
 "sleazy moralizing ",
 "tiny little jokes and nary an original idea ",
 "most romantic comedies , ",
 "better script ",
 "in the best possible senses of both those words ",
 "a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth ",
 "gentle , lapping ",
 "and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . ",
 "deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . ",
 "an incredibly narrow in-joke ",
 "a bland , surfacey way ",
 "retread story ",
 "rip off that we were aware of ",
 "a fine , ",
 "silly and ",
 "an average b-movie with no aspirations ",
 "from a fine cast ",
 "the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype ",
 "shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",
 "a mostly magnificent directorial career , ",
 "with more holes than clyde barrow 's car ",
 "the kind of energy it 's documenting ",
 ", crossroads comes up shorter than britney 's cutoffs . ",
 "most genuinely sweet films ",
 "elegant and ",
 "this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ",
 "inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald 's , let alone ",
 "a bad improvisation exercise ",
 "give what may be the performances of their careers . ",
 "sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling ",
 "into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear ",
 "see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ",
 "well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo 's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant ",
 "its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",
 "with dickens ' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath 's even-toned direction ",
 "really cool ",
 "watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement ",
 "it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie ",
 "by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime ",
 "it 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . ",
 "from a sharper , cleaner script ",
 "terrific documentaries ",
 "the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . ",
 "is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for ",
 "those words ",
 "uncool the only thing missing is the `` gadzooks ",
 "dreamy ",
 "an object lesson in period filmmaking ",
 "a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what ( evans ) had , lost , and got back ",
 "a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears ",
 "( and better ) ",
 "is more interesting ( and funnier ) ",
 "who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching ",
 "the right thing ",
 "is it as smart ",
 "a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community ",
 "who would not likely be so stupid as to get ",
 "a film without surprise ",
 "exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace ",
 "seen it all before in one form or another ",
 "bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene ",
 "attractive and talented actors ",
 "make a big splash ",
 "above the ordinary ",
 "is amiss in the world . ",
 "sham actor workshops ",
 "of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version ",
 "there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? ",
 "sweet spirit ",
 "the script 's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes ",
 "a spiffy animated feature ",
 "find in this dreary mess ",
 "'s anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair ",
 "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 . ",
 "meaty subject ",
 "be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous ( than leon ) ",
 ", brooding and slow ",
 "expressive ",
 "while it may not add up to the sum of its parts ",
 "critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure ",
 "realized the harsh reality of my situation ",
 "smashing success ",
 "is an accomplished actress ",
 "a peculiar misfire that even tunney ca n't save . ",
 "exhilarating ",
 "fragmentary ",
 "it 's pauly shore awful . ",
 "is fantastic ",
 "is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ",
 "very funny , heartwarming film ",
 "liked a lot of the smaller scenes . ",
 "in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk ",
 "to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing ",
 "the greatest films ",
 "whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- ",
 "an energy to y tu mam\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n ",
 "this is the one . ",
 "wondrously ",
 "reach the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as `` mulan '' or `` tarzan ",
 "chance to learn , to grow , to travel ",
 "which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state ",
 "not the great american comedy ",
 "overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal ",
 "the threat implied in the title pok\u00e9mon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming ",
 "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 ",
 "easily one of the best and most exciting movies ",
 "over-dramatic ",
 "is less compelling than the circumstances of its making ",
 "explore the connections between place and personal identity . ",
 "funny and human ",
 "underrated professionals ",
 ", it runs for 170 ",
 "'m sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment . ",
 "the ordeal of sitting through it ",
 "delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , ",
 "like brosnan 's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . ",
 "jolie 's hideous yellow ",
 "an awkward hybrid of genres that just does n't work ",
 "... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... ",
 "mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",
 "contrived , well-worn situations ",
 "let 's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what 's next ... ghost blimp ? ",
 "of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls ",
 "delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph ",
 "there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . ",
 "three sides of his story with a sensitivity ",
 "would have a hard time sitting through this one ",
 "the five writers ",
 "they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",
 "'s fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels ",
 "a pressure cooker of horrified awe ",
 "plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",
 "irreparably drags the film down . ",
 "is predictable ",
 "wooden performances ",
 "there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ",
 "nifty plot line ",
 "positive impression ",
 "the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past , or even ",
 "good inside dope ",
 "educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them ",
 "a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up ",
 "stupid and annoying ",
 ", it 's black hawk down with more heart . ",
 "exhausted by documentarians ",
 "ai n't art , ",
 "your disgust ",
 "a genuine love story ",
 "funny performers ",
 "enthralling ",
 "the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . ",
 "of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy ",
 "provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history ",
 "rolling over in their graves ",
 "olivier assayas ' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation ",
 "taboo subject matter ",
 "of that moral favorite ",
 "seriously intended movie ",
 "inside righteousness ",
 "'s potentially just as rewarding ",
 "blob ",
 "the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . ",
 "scare the pants off you ",
 "cheesier ",
 ", the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . ",
 "as possibly the best actor working in movies today ",
 "troubling and powerful ",
 "discursive but oddly riveting documentary ",
 "'ll keep you wide awake and ... very tense . ",
 "mr. goyer 's loose , unaccountable direction ",
 "hits all the verbal marks it should ",
 "deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation ",
 "an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience ",
 "a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . ",
 "film that loses sight of its own story . ",
 "is icily brilliant ",
 "attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off ",
 "is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle ",
 "wrapping the theater ",
 "spiritual survival ",
 "tailor-made ",
 "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 . ",
 "consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire ",
 "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 ",
 "plight and isolation ",
 "does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head ",
 "needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about ",
 "a frightful vanity film ",
 "satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale ",
 "will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ",
 "leaden as the movie sputters ",
 "makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . ",
 "a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . ",
 "artistic aspirations ",
 "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 ",
 "like it hot on the hardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny . ",
 "progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony ",
 "horrendously ",
 "perfect wildean actor ",
 "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 . ",
 "that was hard for me to warm up to ",
 "being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams ",
 "it might just be the movie you 're looking for . ",
 "low-grade dreck ",
 "more repetition than creativity ",
 "a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say . ",
 "the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience ",
 "the grease ",
 "in a doctor 's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office ",
 "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 . ",
 "is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . ",
 "dredge ",
 "achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . ",
 ", it may just scare the pants off you . ",
 "most ordinary and obvious ",
 "a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone ",
 "some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since `` saving private ryan '' ",
 "a bit repetitive ",
 "deal with the subject of love head-on ",
 "witty and often surprising ",
 "the teen-exploitation playbook ",
 "kicks into gear ",
 "without much success ",
 "was painful ",
 "alienation ",
 ", unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope ",
 "amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . ",
 "is hard to resist ",
 "i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes ",
 "india 's popular gulzar and jagjit singh ",
 "moore wonderfully ",
 "this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller ",
 "dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you 're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater ",
 "accents so good ",
 "of promise ",
 "the usual movie rah-rah ",
 "mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema ",
 "are not at all entertaining ",
 "the film is one of the year 's best . ",
 "see over and over ",
 "emotionally stirring ",
 "can take credit for most of the movie 's success ",
 "has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . ",
 "the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . ",
 "its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",
 "adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining ",
 "'s nowhere near ",
 "the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens ",
 "gutsy ",
 "of the credit for the film 's winning tone ",
 "charmless ",
 "moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver ",
 "courageousness ",
 "( evans is ) a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",
 "cheesiest ",
 "provides a fresh view of an old type ",
 "has its moments -- and almost as many subplots . ",
 "a little weak -- and it is n't that funny . ",
 "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 . ",
 "peril ",
 "empire ca n't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . ",
 "its strengths ",
 "clarity and deeply ",
 "efficiently ",
 "phenomenal ",
 ", absurd , ",
 "touched by an unprecedented tragedy ",
 "real characters and compelling plots ",
 "of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right ",
 "'s surprisingly decent , ",
 "escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , ",
 "a younger lad ",
 "gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , ",
 "comes together as a coherent whole ",
 "allegedly inspiring and ",
 "of almost bergmanesque intensity ",
 "pretentious mess ",
 "screwing things up old school ",
 "with revulsion ",
 "an invaluable record ",
 "the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just ca n't take it any more ",
 "this gender-bending comedy ",
 "half-baked setups ",
 "ideal casting ",
 "a new scene ",
 "politics , power and ",
 "is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . ",
 "quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . ",
 "humor , warmth ",
 "the way this all works out ",
 "while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter ",
 "helps create a complex , unpredictable character ",
 "like a medium-grade network sitcom -- mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . ",
 "delusions ",
 "edits ",
 "predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game ",
 "of extravagant ",
 "it is n't quite one of the worst movies of the year . ",
 "enough cool fun ",
 "the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it 's insanely violent and very graphic . ",
 "sell us on this twisted love story ",
 "in other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year . ",
 "engaging than the usual fantasies hollywood produces ",
 "something a little more special behind it : ",
 "same sledgehammer appeal ",
 "if kaos had n't blown them all up ",
 ", this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",
 "blustery movie ",
 "the still-inestimable contribution ",
 "sweet and sexy ",
 "technically ",
 "of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm ",
 "a native american ",
 "for granted in most films are mishandled here ",
 "sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . ",
 "convey a strong sense of the girls ' environment . ",
 "mind-numbing ",
 "donna ",
 "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 ",
 "characters are both overplayed and exaggerated ",
 "be spectacularly outrageous ",
 "muddled ",
 "to his pulpy thrillers ",
 "garc\u00eda bernal and talanc\u00f3n are an immensely appealing couple ",
 "you wish he 'd gone the way of don simpson ",
 "diverse ",
 "but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti ",
 "the picture 's fascinating byways ",
 "overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue ",
 "one regards reign of fire with awe . ",
 "are an absolute joy ",
 "interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love story ",
 "energetic and smart ",
 "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 . ",
 "is not unlike watching a glorified episode of `` 7th heaven . ",
 ", populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . ",
 "endure almost unimaginable horror ",
 "a listless climb down the social ladder ",
 "has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right ",
 "has no idea of it is serious ",
 "it 's hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ",
 "thoroughly awful movie ",
 "the acting is robotically italicized , ",
 "by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss ",
 "while this film has an ` a ' list cast and some strong supporting players ",
 "such fresh territory ",
 "achingly honest and ",
 "opera on film is never satisfactory . ",
 "is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal ",
 "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 . ",
 "this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot ",
 "it 's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it 's all about the silences and if you 're into that , have at it ",
 "veers into corny sentimentality , probably ",
 "who learns that believing in something does matter ",
 "'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 ca n't take it any more ",
 "painfully awful ",
 "crack a smile at ",
 "a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement ",
 "sterile and ",
 ", you 're a jet all the way ",
 "to do with imagination than market research ",
 "something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message ",
 "have a reasonably good time with the salton sea ",
 "its success on a patient viewer ",
 "graceful dual narrative ",
 "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 . ",
 "delight in the images ",
 "a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads ",
 "a clarity of purpose and even-handedness ",
 "the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . ",
 "than this facetious smirk of a movie ",
 "otherwise bleak tale ",
 "visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . ",
 "is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and ",
 "clich\u00e9s and borrowed images ",
 "ca n't recommend it enough . ",
 "vile ",
 "it looks neat ",
 "is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon ",
 "good documentarian ",
 "dogme ",
 "its own existence ",
 "it goes awry in the final 30 minutes ",
 "the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes ",
 "like nothing we westerners have seen before ",
 "unreligious ",
 "return ticket ",
 "relied too much on convention ",
 "has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll . ",
 "that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries ",
 "inspiring ",
 "of domestic tension and unhappiness ",
 "of common sense ",
 "imaginatively ",
 "rewarding ",
 "the film is saved from are n't - kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition . ",
 "there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and ",
 "by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience ",
 "realistically terrifying movie ",
 "credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it ",
 "neither as scary-funny as tremors nor ",
 "seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart ",
 "enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , ",
 "dazzling , remarkably unpretentious ",
 "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 . ",
 "estranged from reality ",
 "a small movie with a big heart ",
 "slightly naughty , just-above-average off ",
 "'s been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie ",
 ", it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part ",
 "down-to-earth ",
 "it 's loud and boring ; ",
 "losers ",
 "it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy ",
 "powerful success ",
 "to ultimately disappoint the action ",
 "seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming ",
 "are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels ",
 ", you should be able to find better entertainment . ",
 "fine documentary ",
 "date-night diversion ",
 "never worry about anyone being bored ",
 "on the brink of major changes ",
 "for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension ",
 "human moments ",
 "laughably ",
 "whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter ",
 "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 . ",
 "not taken ",
 "evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat ",
 ", the satire is weak . ",
 "funniest idea ",
 "insomnia is one of the year 's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",
 "who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ",
 "a canny crowd pleaser , and ",
 "'re going to face frightening late fees ",
 "he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause ",
 "is still worth hearing . ",
 "of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times ",
 "just might turn on many people to opera , in general ",
 "its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",
 "the rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based ",
 "are complex and quirky , but entirely believable ",
 "this surprisingly decent flick ",
 "are simply too bland to be interesting . ",
 "it 's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . ",
 "terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating ",
 "is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies . ",
 "how very bad ",
 "be with a large dose of painkillers ",
 "not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . ",
 "remains prominent , as do the girls ' amusing personalities ",
 "the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay ",
 "bad sitcom ",
 "talented people ",
 "inspirational ",
 "do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ",
 "the intoxicating fumes ",
 "could n't really figure out how to flesh either out ",
 "all unfolds predictably ",
 "funny in the middle ",
 "all the outward elements of the original ",
 "are incredibly captivating and insanely funny ",
 "have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema ",
 "way too full ",
 "quirky , odd movies and/or the ironic ",
 "an imaginatively mixed cast ",
 "a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams ",
 "sometimes tedious -- ",
 "the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ... ",
 "save oleander 's uninspired story ",
 "becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities ",
 "beloved-major ",
 "stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , ",
 "crass and insulting ",
 "strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "confused in death to smoochy ",
 "an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling ",
 "traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ",
 "`` blue crush '' is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings ",
 "as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics ) ",
 "are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi 's now-cliched vampire accent . ",
 "members of the cultural elite ",
 "take nothing seriously and ",
 "be considered a funny little film ",
 "are your cup of blood ",
 "is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . ",
 "decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces ",
 "effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us ",
 "very complex ",
 "euphoria ",
 "the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . ",
 "while scorsese 's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic , the movie is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . ",
 "bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid ",
 "less a documentary and more propaganda ",
 "the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding ",
 "of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice ",
 "satisfyingly scarifying ",
 ", cliched and clunky ",
 "better characters , some genuine quirkiness and ",
 "more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance ",
 "take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film ",
 "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 . ",
 "are n't so substantial or fresh ",
 "lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor ",
 "any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . ",
 "i suppose it 's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- ",
 "seems timely and important ",
 "to hide the fact that seagal 's overweight and out of shape ",
 "pur\u00e9ed m\u00e9lange ",
 "demonstrate how desperate the makers of this ` we 're - doing-it-for - the-cash ' sequel were ",
 "a sense of mystery ",
 "in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance ",
 "little excitement ",
 "painful elegy ",
 "this simple , sweet and romantic comedy ",
 "delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling ",
 "the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo ",
 ", more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . ",
 "drowns in sap . ",
 "multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation ",
 "make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book ",
 "a bilingual charmer ",
 "do the genial-rogue shtick to death ",
 "breathtaking mystery ",
 "a lumbering load ",
 "another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective ",
 "warm nor fuzzy ",
 "it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing ",
 "committed to film ",
 "the funniest and most accurate depiction ",
 "drag an audience ",
 "are in this tepid genre offering ",
 "'s just merely very bad . ",
 "visual merits ",
 "a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events ",
 "it falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose ",
 "not in a good way ",
 "a beautiful paean to a time long past ",
 "clarity and emotional ",
 "carries it to unexpected heights ",
 "go at all the wrong moments ",
 "will enjoy seeing how both evolve ",
 "hilarity ",
 "a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . ",
 "( barry ) gives assassin a disquieting authority . ",
 "of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure ",
 "from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ",
 "its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives ",
 "protective cocoon ",
 "lost and desolate ",
 "we started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock , ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine . ",
 "an awful movie that ",
 "a spirit that can not be denied ",
 "the most thoughtful fictional examination ",
 "toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ",
 "several cliched movie structures : ",
 "is an action movie with an action icon who 's been all but decommissioned . ",
 "not only a pianist , but a good human being ",
 "i 'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . ",
 "'s a very valuable film ... ",
 "wo n't fly with most intelligent viewers . ",
 "a fresh point of view ",
 "for sick and demented humor ",
 "a tribute ",
 "second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , ",
 "making kahlo 's art a living ",
 "of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen ",
 "interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity ",
 "quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . ",
 "wow ",
 "hell ",
 "so much like a young robert deniro ",
 "audacity to view one of shakespeare 's better known tragedies as a dark comedy ",
 ", sweet and romantic ",
 "loved the people onscreen ",
 "sketches ",
 "been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip ",
 "made a walk to remember a niche hit ",
 "do n't care to understand ",
 "plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' ",
 "has a feel for the character at all stages of her life ",
 "it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film 's length becomes a part of its fun . ",
 "treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects ",
 "was n't at least watchable ",
 "one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart ",
 "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 . ",
 "famous moments ",
 "studios ",
 "makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing ",
 "smarter ",
 "pure venality -- ",
 "watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell ",
 "glum as mr. de niro ",
 "does n't match his ambition ",
 "illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters ",
 "of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films ",
 "despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn 's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . ",
 "a few tasty morsels ",
 "lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work ",
 "the german film industry can not make a delightful comedy centering on food ",
 "bravo 's ",
 "insanely hilarious ! ",
 "a powerful look at a failure of our justice system ",
 "of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions ",
 "that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast ",
 "everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings ",
 "memorable experience ",
 "that came to define a generation ",
 "a most hard-hearted person ",
 "splendid performances ",
 "it 's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm 's shelf . ",
 "a fascinating little thriller ",
 "to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place ",
 "made it all work ",
 "maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score ",
 "it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker 's characteristic style ",
 "'s hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie ",
 "remains vividly in memory ",
 "is about something very interesting and odd that ",
 "of sensitive observation ",
 "genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout ",
 "an acting bond ",
 "is perfectly creepy and believable . ",
 "tragic ) ",
 "crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best ",
 "bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults ",
 "schizo cartoon ",
 "it 's sweet and fluffy at the time ",
 "a long , dull procession of despair ",
 "emotional misery ",
 "together ( time out and human resources ) establish mr. cantet as france 's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace ",
 "was n't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film ... it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , `` wait a second ",
 "the film is well-crafted and ",
 "soars ",
 "wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours ",
 "a kilt ",
 "perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair ",
 "while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . ",
 "deviant ",
 "the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters ",
 "the guru who helped ",
 "replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo ",
 "a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature ",
 "that should 've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans ",
 "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 ",
 "the film 's mid-to-low budget ",
 "mobius strip ",
 "a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history ",
 "knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and ",
 "keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists ",
 "a thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . ",
 "the self-image ",
 "expressing itself in every way imaginable ",
 "maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . ",
 "seems to elicit a chuckle ",
 "overrun ",
 "stealing harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure ",
 "of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery ",
 "a beautiful paean to a time long past . ",
 "with this masterful ",
 "showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . ",
 "seem to get a coherent rhythm going ",
 "this crazy life ",
 "a baffling subplot ",
 "a huge cut of above the rest ",
 "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 . ",
 "what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this ",
 "that manages to invest real humor ",
 "'s a barely tolerable slog over well-trod ground . ",
 "sounds whiny and defensive ",
 "been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations ",
 "will enthrall the whole family ",
 "brosnan 's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . ",
 "all about a young woman 's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman 's doubts and yearnings ",
 "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 ",
 "a recommendation ",
 "soderbergh 's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . ",
 "lost in the translation this time ",
 ", do we have that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ? ",
 "( jackson and bledel ) seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . ",
 "are included ",
 "the essence of what it is to be ya-ya ",
 "of empathy for its characters ",
 "the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome clich\u00e9 ",
 "make the film 's conclusion powerful and satisfying ",
 "'s often overwritten , ",
 "zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that 's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance ",
 "poetry , passion , and genius ",
 "a plethora of engaging diatribes ",
 "be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals ",
 "the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about ",
 "how low brow ",
 "is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . ",
 "a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky ",
 "the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . ",
 "affection for its characters ",
 "in form ",
 "makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible ",
 "to the film 's music ",
 "captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics ",
 "lack-of-attention span ",
 "maintained ",
 "too deep ",
 "absolutely and completely ridiculous ",
 "about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . ",
 "it wo n't hold up over the long haul , ",
 "would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel ",
 "commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute ",
 "in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth ",
 "detailing ",
 "a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man ",
 "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 . ",
 "a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors ",
 ", like silence , it 's a movie that gets under your skin . ",
 "watchable up ",
 "arrive early and stay late ",
 "the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language ",
 "makes these lives count ",
 "new ",
 "potent chemistry ",
 "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 ",
 "it 's a sad , sick sight ",
 "to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation ",
 "should be as entertaining as it is ",
 "rousing , g-rated family film ",
 "a sense-of-humour failure ",
 "historically significant , ",
 "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 ",
 "is that its own action is n't very effective ",
 "on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` clockstoppers ",
 "the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ",
 "quite tasty ",
 "conceit ",
 "is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . ",
 "add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff ",
 "they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up ",
 "fascinating experiment ",
 "boisterous , heartfelt comedy ",
 "in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor ",
 "the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael ",
 "brosnan is more feral in this film than i 've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him ",
 "exploiting ",
 "is a superior horror flick . ",
 "to whether you 've seen pornography or documentary ",
 "forget about it by monday ",
 "lets her love depraved leads meet , ( denis ' ) story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle ",
 "mandy moore leaves a positive impression ",
 "were that grand a failure ",
 "made a point or two regarding life ",
 "considerable talents ",
 "kinnear 's performance is a career-defining revelation . ",
 "girls ca n't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it 's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre ",
 "i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . ",
 "painful improbability ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "drudgery ",
 "scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv ",
 "in fact , even better ",
 "it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief ",
 "'' remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film ... ",
 "director claude chabrol ",
 "is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . ",
 "is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition -- wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text -- when it 's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type ",
 "the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year ",
 "amusing us ",
 "bears more than a whiff of exploitation , ",
 "tear-drenched ",
 "completely creatively stillborn ",
 "few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , ",
 "his smooth , shrewd , powerful act ",
 ", the film is extremely thorough . ",
 "its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and ",
 "an inventive ",
 "politically potent ",
 "is like a beautiful food entr\u00e9e that is n't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ",
 "of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy ",
 "surprisingly affecting ",
 "poorly executed comedy . ",
 ", you 're gon na like this movie . ",
 "with crude humor and vulgar innuendo ",
 "here is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . ",
 "powerful and telling ",
 "hackneyed story ",
 "is truly gorgeous ",
 "a ragbag ",
 "well-wrought story ",
 "smart , nuanced look ",
 "are acting like puppets ",
 "is as thought-provoking ",
 "mr. nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . ",
 "assured , vital and ",
 "the amateurish ",
 "get more out of the latter experience ",
 "of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ",
 "fire a torpedo through some of clancy 's holes ",
 "creative energy and wit to entertain all ages ",
 "you feel alive - which is what they did ",
 "life , ",
 "fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) ",
 "a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies . ",
 "making moving pictures today ",
 "should please fans of chris fuhrman 's posthumously published cult novel ",
 "as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned ",
 "this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre ",
 "to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clich\u00e9s the filmmakers could dredge up ",
 "'s get this thing over with ",
 "that works on any number of levels ",
 "filter out the complexity ",
 "the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- ",
 "the casting of raymond j. barry as the ` assassin ' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary . ",
 "from grace that still leaves shockwaves ",
 "the film is visually dazzling , ",
 "there may have been a good film in `` trouble every day , '' ",
 "for history buffs ",
 "cold , gray , antiseptic ",
 "throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling ",
 "'ll buy the soundtrack . ",
 "disdain ",
 "collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series ",
 "redeeming feature ",
 "'s been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion ",
 "a well-balanced fashion ",
 "consummate actor ",
 "elaborate and twisted characters ",
 "a lovably old-school hollywood confection . ",
 "if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright ",
 "narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann ",
 "this much imagination and nerve ",
 "a lack ",
 "there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body ",
 "the perkiness ",
 "no chemistry ",
 "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 ",
 "although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness ",
 "plain bad ",
 "the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium ",
 ", double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action ",
 "leblanc thought , `` hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . '' ",
 "it 's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun ",
 "is virtually unwatchable . ",
 "the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance ",
 "for all the wit and hoopla ",
 "me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here ",
 "the gags are puerile . ",
 "love its fantasy and adventure ",
 "treachery ",
 "miss it ",
 "one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ",
 "believing people were paid to make it ",
 "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 ",
 ", lame screenplay ",
 "exceptional thriller ",
 "but believe it or not , it 's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen . ",
 "in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago ",
 "of badness ",
 "a loud , ugly , irritating movie ",
 "is little else ",
 "works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ",
 "on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms ",
 "as fascinating ",
 "be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , ",
 "for something entertaining ",
 "is a success . ",
 "remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre ",
 "is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly ",
 "lovely and amazing ",
 "the delicious pulpiness ",
 "often inspiring ",
 "smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . ",
 "takes hold . ",
 "it 's got all the familiar bruckheimer elements , ",
 "is a must for genre fans ",
 "leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends ",
 "essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered ",
 "little substance ",
 "a screwed-up man ",
 "their super-powers , their super-simple animation and ",
 "imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ",
 "a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped ",
 "formuliac , but fun . ",
 "is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . ",
 "the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as `` mulan '' or `` tarzan ",
 "the production details are lavish ",
 ", melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears ",
 "like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life ",
 "definitely funny stuff ",
 "that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination ",
 "starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television . ",
 "feels rigged and sluggish . ",
 "about a young woman 's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman 's doubts and yearnings ",
 "good action , good acting , ",
 "the action is dazzling ",
 "a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist ",
 "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 ",
 "fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals ",
 "threefold expansion ",
 "threadbare comic setups ",
 "an intriguing twist ",
 "a better thriller ",
 "dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie ",
 "mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings ",
 "a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",
 "this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction ",
 "prepare to marvel again ",
 "that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender ",
 "check it out ",
 "in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen ",
 "it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent ",
 ", like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud ",
 "blab ",
 "good theatre ",
 "visually and thematically ",
 "lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago ",
 "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 ",
 "prove that ` zany ' does n't necessarily mean ` funny ",
 "a summer ",
 "revels in its own simplicity ",
 "chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",
 "enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies ",
 "as original and insightful as last week 's episode of behind the music . ",
 "he refuses to give us real situations and characters ",
 "the writing is clever and the cast is appealing ",
 "scare while we delight in the images ",
 "psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , ",
 "has all the values of a straight-to-video movie ",
 "hypnotic portrait ",
 "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 . ",
 "it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . ",
 "worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ",
 "a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph ",
 "strong as always ",
 "its first-time feature director ",
 "expects people to pay to see it ",
 "surprisingly ` solid ' ",
 "that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women ",
 "the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . ",
 "will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . ",
 "genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental ",
 "'s a pale imitation . ",
 "the whole film has this sneaky feel to it -- as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . ",
 "injects just enough freshness ",
 "be of interest primarily to its target audience ",
 "have been astronomically bad ",
 "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 ",
 "a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence ",
 "and in a sense , that 's a liability . ",
 "yields surprises . ",
 "a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . ",
 "ludicrous attempt ",
 "positive change ",
 "the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . ",
 "hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really ",
 "the concert footage is stirring ",
 "he runs around and acts like a doofus ",
 "a straight-to-video movie ",
 "in a series of relentlessly nasty situations ",
 "vacuous ",
 "has merit and ",
 "leaving questions in its wake ",
 "in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling ",
 "scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances ",
 "the star-making machinery of tinseltown ",
 "that kate is n't very bright , but ",
 "something bigger than yourself ",
 "a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design ",
 "is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what 's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . ",
 "basic flaws ",
 "refreshingly realistic , affectation-free ",
 "entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately ",
 "captures the moment when a woman 's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . ",
 "thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait ",
 "the unacceptable ",
 "a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer ",
 "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 . ",
 "a rare window on an artistic collaboration ",
 "enjoyably fast-moving ",
 "assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation . ",
 "an interesting character ",
 "features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase ",
 "it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",
 "the film 's shortcomings ",
 "a weird fizzle ",
 "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 ",
 "a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie ",
 "not one clever line ",
 "in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise ",
 "new adaptation ",
 "are too cute ",
 "'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 . ",
 "the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store '' ",
 "at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles ",
 "like a grinning jack o ' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . ",
 "to escape from director mark romanek 's self-conscious scrutiny ",
 "a remarkably original work ",
 "but enjoyable documentary . ",
 "beg the question ` why ",
 "'s so sloppily written and cast that you can not believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer ",
 "a real shame ",
 "only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind ",
 "sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers ",
 "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 . ",
 "i wo n't be sitting through this one again ",
 "'s one of the worst of the entire franchise . ",
 "actor raymond j. barry is perfectly creepy and believable . ",
 "the cast is spot on ",
 "horrifying and oppressively tragic ",
 "well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights ",
 "freaky friday , '' it 's not . ",
 "is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . ",
 "a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , ",
 "that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed ",
 "those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace ",
 "gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . ",
 "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 . ",
 "if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . ",
 "call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie ",
 "a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle ",
 "sexual jealousy , resentment ",
 "occasionally inspired dialogue bits ",
 "was daniel day-lewis . ",
 "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 , ",
 "adam watstein with finishing it at all ",
 "to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry ",
 "some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . ",
 "a remarkable film ",
 "a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture ",
 "uninventive ",
 "trenchant satirical jabs ",
 "make this a charmer . ",
 "a twist -- far better ",
 "put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals ",
 "insomnia ",
 "is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called ` comedy ' and not laugh once ",
 "visually captivating . ",
 "presents a frightening and compelling ` what if ",
 "is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ",
 "the dangerous lives of altar boys ' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ",
 "to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television ",
 "ravishing waif ",
 ", to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner ",
 "is n't much there here . ",
 "miracle of miracles , the movie ",
 "disoriented ",
 "sleek and arty ",
 "its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work ",
 "convincing case ",
 "'s also undeniably exceedingly clever ",
 "as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale ",
 "episodic choppiness , undermining the story 's emotional thrust ",
 "rent this on video ",
 "typical pax ",
 "car chase ",
 "suspense , intriguing characters and ",
 "most creative mayhem ",
 "make it as much fun ",
 "little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out ",
 "made a more sheerly beautiful film ",
 "as rude and profane as ever , ",
 ", runteldat is something of a triumph . ",
 "produced in recent memory , even if it 's far tamer than advertised ",
 "debut effort by `` project greenlight '' winner ",
 "give a pretty good overall picture of the situation ",
 ", there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . ",
 "has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and ",
 "cold and dead ",
 "for a great film noir ",
 "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 ",
 "glib ",
 "delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . ",
 "enjoyable above average summer diversion ",
 "sickly ",
 "is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen ",
 "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 ",
 "original hit movie ",
 "the ultimate scorsese film ",
 "us love it , too . ",
 ", but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . ",
 "an engrossing and grim portrait ",
 "it plays everything too safe ",
 "( dong ) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view , and ",
 "came up with a treasure chest of material ",
 "dysfunctional ",
 "a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one ",
 "of a director enjoying himself immensely ",
 "are immaculate ",
 "does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy ",
 "compelling dramatic means ",
 "as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks ",
 "'ll love this movie . ",
 "another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market ",
 "'s a spirited film and a must-see ",
 "equally great ",
 "thanks to the ch\u00e2teau 's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation ",
 "drudgery . ",
 "the same old bad trip ",
 "to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period ",
 "it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity . ",
 "the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . ",
 "teddy bears ' ",
 "is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer , and hopefully , sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . ",
 "is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year ",
 "the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms ... is a nonstop hoot . ",
 "being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks ",
 "really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions ",
 "a superficial way ",
 ", at 66 , has stopped challenging himself ",
 "jolt you out ",
 "the essence of magic ",
 "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 ",
 "victim to sloppy plotting ",
 "grief drives her ",
 "make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . ",
 "complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen ",
 "make the most of the large-screen format ",
 "mid-to-low budget ",
 "( the characters ' ) misery ",
 "with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump ",
 "terribly monotonous ",
 "appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond ",
 "it with ring , ",
 "works smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely ",
 "otherwise good-naturedness ",
 "to break free of her old life ",
 "just another generic drama ",
 "unparalleled proportions ",
 "rattling the viewer ",
 "unlikable , uninteresting ",
 ", pathetic , starving and untalented ",
 "staged violence overshadows everything ",
 "a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up ",
 "of the best silly horror movies ",
 "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 ? '' ",
 "kicking undead *** ",
 "derring-do ",
 "real star ",
 "some body will take you places you have n't been , and also places you have . ",
 "imagine that most every aggrieved father clich\u00e9 has been unturned ",
 "is extremely thorough . ",
 "more tiring than anything ",
 "exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , ",
 "makes little attempt ",
 "who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings ",
 "this nonsensical story ",
 "little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating ",
 "whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it 's as if it all happened only yesterday ",
 "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 ",
 "does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful ",
 "draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss ",
 "to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude ",
 "that so often end up on cinema screens ",
 "parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . ' ",
 "loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . ",
 "to his son 's home ",
 "but certainly not without merit ",
 "heartwarming ",
 "confusion and pain ",
 "resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this ",
 "intimate and ",
 "works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever . ",
 "brimming with coltish , neurotic energy ",
 "hard time ",
 "caring for animals and respecting other cultures ",
 "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 ",
 "the peculiar american style of justice ",
 "not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing ",
 "it 's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . ",
 "( kline 's ) utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and ",
 "too bland and ",
 ", the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . ",
 "ca n't rescue this effort ",
 "entertaining and audacious moments ",
 "a kick ",
 "a glib but bouncy bit ",
 "the audacity to view one of shakespeare 's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",
 "one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us ",
 "forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already ",
 "come to term an `` ambitious failure ",
 "a hallucinatory dreamscape ",
 "of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since `` saving private ryan '' ",
 "by a noticeable lack of pace ",
 "is very believable ",
 "with a grand whimper ",
 "the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo ",
 "enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you 've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . ",
 "a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow ",
 "struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious ",
 "of male-ridden angst ",
 "slow , uneventful ",
 "has its redundancies ",
 "inside the wave ",
 "by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos ",
 "is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . ",
 "resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture ",
 "is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . ",
 "has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him ",
 "profoundly devastating events ",
 "i.e. , a banal spiritual quest ",
 "imagine benigni 's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial ",
 "crafted import ",
 "haunting tale ",
 "sucked up all ",
 "be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form ",
 ", american chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . ",
 "a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . ",
 "is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever ",
 "make italian for beginners worth the journey ",
 "superficial midlife crisis ",
 "as bored ",
 "turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach ",
 "is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ",
 "brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , ",
 "is funny , scary and sad . ",
 "obvious copy ",
 "classy ",
 "a flat , plodding picture ",
 "elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic ",
 "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 ",
 "by lousy direction ",
 "an unabashedly romantic picture ",
 "seem twice as long ",
 "is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days ",
 "flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous ",
 "are able to accomplish ",
 "crane 's decline ",
 "can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as music ",
 "deserves a better vehicle ",
 "which has a handful of smart jokes ",
 "the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . ",
 "jonah 's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis ",
 "filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim ",
 ", madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",
 "an unsympathetic character and someone ",
 "back-stabbing , inter-racial desire ",
 "toss logic and science ",
 "this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . ",
 "dramatic , funny and poignant ",
 "provocative and prescient ",
 "attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way ",
 "this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . ",
 "its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact ",
 "grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length ",
 "the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand 's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . ",
 "crude storyline ",
 "every joke is repeated at least four times . ",
 "what 's invigorating about it is that it does n't give a damn . ",
 "stealing harvard does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",
 "picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like ",
 "they have been patiently waiting for ",
 "it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster ",
 "a highly gifted 12-year-old ",
 "a determined , ennui-hobbled slog ",
 "crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment ",
 ", frightening war scenes ",
 "succeeds as a well-made evocation ",
 "quiet , decisive moments ",
 "'s hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film ",
 "bang-up job ",
 "ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks ",
 "with a bright future ahead of him ",
 "quite admirable ",
 "an admittedly middling film ",
 "an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs ",
 "champion the fallibility of the human heart ",
 "rather thin ",
 "desperate for the evening to end ",
 "it 's provocative stuff ",
 "there is n't one true ` chan moment ' . ",
 "a much needed kick , making `` die another day '' one of the most entertaining bonds in years ",
 "followed through on her defiance of the saccharine ",
 "cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional ",
 "has never been filmed more irresistibly than in ` baran . ' ",
 "the gift of tears ",
 "makes it worth watching ",
 "it 's an ambitious film , ",
 "put on a show ",
 "exist only for its climactic setpiece ",
 "i know that i 'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again ",
 "the plot of the comeback curlers is n't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what 's unique and quirky about canadians . ",
 "material realm ",
 "see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade ",
 "turns the marquis de sade into a dullard ",
 "you wo n't be disappointed ",
 "the lively intelligence of the artists ",
 "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 . ",
 "disquietingly ",
 "there 's much tongue in cheek in the film and there 's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all ",
 "the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies ",
 "unsettled ",
 "reality-snubbing ",
 "the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent ",
 "pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license ",
 "most beautiful , evocative ",
 "exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest ",
 "can open the door to liberation . ",
 "his most critically insightful ",
 "the plot and a powerfully evocative mood ",
 "has cheapened the artistry of making a film ",
 "a movie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why ",
 "both excellent ",
 "anyone who loves both dance and cinema ",
 "gently humorous ",
 "this smart-aleck movie ... tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life ",
 "flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace ",
 "on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . ",
 "peculiarly moral amorality ",
 "having a real writer plot ",
 "sexist ",
 "warm , moving ",
 "an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow ",
 "expected it to be ",
 "a spontaneity ",
 "is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world ",
 "this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . ",
 "the the wisdom and humor ",
 "a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense ",
 "you 'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for ",
 "`` rollerball '' 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j. ",
 "like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six . ",
 "lumbering ",
 "slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves ",
 "stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy ",
 "where human nature should be ingratiating ",
 "the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",
 "sacrificed for the sake of spectacle ",
 "is that there is never any question of how things will turn out ",
 "is a total misfire ",
 "has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project ",
 "an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and ",
 "american and ",
 "hooting ",
 "stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement ",
 "clich\u00e9d and ",
 "liking showgirls ",
 "find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash ",
 "'s relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions ",
 "more of an ordeal than an amusement ",
 "a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances ",
 "be seen as hip , winking social commentary ",
 "ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans ",
 "simply stupid , irrelevant and ",
 "a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . ",
 "trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish ",
 "this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast ",
 "surprisingly anemic disappointment ",
 "trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . ",
 "like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend ",
 "dreadfully earnest inversion ",
 "i would leave the theater with a lower i.q. than when i had entered ",
 "say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch ",
 "this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy ",
 "a highly spirited , imaginative kid 's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god ",
 "in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . ",
 "overwhelming ",
 "again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",
 "vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",
 "for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",
 "a quirky comedy ",
 "is grisly . ",
 "listless and ",
 "traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",
 "of an impression ",
 "'s never too late to believe in your dreams . ",
 "worth catching ",
 "a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage ",
 "the stale material ",
 "crackles ",
 "very funny romantic comedy ",
 "more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film ",
 "at keeping themselves kicking ",
 "seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle ' ",
 "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 ",
 "though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",
 "a properly spooky film about the power of spirits ",
 "gentle , endearing ",
 "passion , creativity , and fearlessness ",
 "sparkling ",
 "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 . ",
 "is akin to a reader 's digest condensed version of the source material ",
 "intimate and socially encompassing ",
 "most romantic comedies ",
 "with an inauspicious ",
 "one of the best rock ",
 "thurman ",
 "of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up ",
 "a well-put-together piece of urban satire ",
 "isolation ",
 "an exhausted , desiccated talent ",
 "on its empty head ",
 "birthday girl '' is an actor 's movie first and foremost . ",
 "a vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from ",
 "relatively dry ",
 "it 's no lie -- big fat liar is a real charmer . ",
 "uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth ",
 "that never ",
 "can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood is n't going to jell ",
 "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 . ",
 "mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . ",
 "remarkable and ",
 "is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context ",
 "utterly incompetent ",
 "staggered from the theater ",
 "as vincent became more and more abhorrent ",
 "everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage ",
 "the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker 's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . ",
 "sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it ",
 "true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . ",
 "the dullest irish pub scenes ",
 "with a life-affirming message ",
 ", she 's appealingly manic and energetic . ",
 "unusual , food-for-thought cinema ",
 "some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude ",
 "at every turn of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm ",
 "visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid ",
 "it 's leaden and predictable , ",
 "simple message ",
 "capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie ",
 "sex is one of those films that aims to confuse . ",
 "to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release ",
 "watch barbershop again if you 're in need of a cube fix ",
 ", it 's because there 's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ",
 "it 's soulful and unslick , and that 's apparently just what ( aniston ) has always needed to grow into a movie career ",
 "disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer ",
 "why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ",
 "elevated by michael caine 's performance ",
 "recovering from its demented premise ",
 "vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans ' saga of hollywood excess ",
 "especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget ",
 "there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling ",
 "under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic ",
 "fully forgotten ",
 "while failing to find a spark of its own ",
 "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 ",
 "eat up ",
 "give performances of exceptional honesty ",
 "'s an excellent 90-minute film here ",
 "about their budding amours ",
 "until things fall apart ",
 "yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb ",
 "nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . ",
 "an unpleasantly ",
 "drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice ",
 "across as lame and sophomoric ",
 "a choppy , surface-effect feeling ",
 "a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick ",
 "and withholds delivery ",
 "done , so primitive in technique ",
 "keep you engaged ",
 "blood ",
 "do a homage ",
 "derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining ",
 "is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love . ",
 "slightly disappointed ",
 "to serve the work especially well ",
 "noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill ",
 "its characters and communicates something ",
 "as it should be ",
 "boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . ",
 ", partisans and sabotage ",
 "a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop ",
 "asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up ",
 "asian neo-realist treasure . ",
 "the butt of its own joke ",
 "with an undeniable energy ",
 "dazzle ",
 "develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care . ",
 "the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery ",
 "other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- ",
 "grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made ",
 "was right to cut ",
 "all the dramatic weight ",
 "is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",
 "very very strong ",
 "behind bars ",
 "who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public ",
 "you 're more likely to enjoy on a computer ",
 "to be something of a sitcom apparatus ",
 "awry ",
 "sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are ",
 "distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies ",
 "it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab ",
 "the script 's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . ",
 "overbearing ",
 "nature film and a tribute ",
 "beijing ",
 "it 's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish ",
 "praise ",
 "that 's not saying much ",
 "maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor ",
 "performances , great to look at , and funny ",
 "a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable ",
 "to the floor with a sickening thud ",
 "is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones ",
 "an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger ",
 "with a big impact ",
 "the bard as black comedy -- willie would have loved it . ",
 ", and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth ",
 "its own making ",
 "argue that any sexual relationship that does n't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect ",
 "as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "a distinct rarity , and ",
 "surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy ",
 "a processed comedy chop suey . ",
 "middle eastern world politics ",
 "a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem . ",
 "entirely persuasive ",
 "draws its considerable power from simplicity ",
 "two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . ",
 "lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires ",
 ", all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . ",
 "some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something ",
 "that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood ",
 "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 ",
 "it 's wasted yours ",
 "of its oscar nomination ",
 "uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . ",
 "the limitations of his skill and ",
 "- style cross-country adventure ... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . ",
 "won -- ",
 "as monumental as disney 's 1937 breakthrough ",
 "was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ",
 "top-notch action powers this romantic drama ",
 "choose to skip it ",
 "silly ",
 "blank yearning ",
 "this in the right frame of mind ",
 "this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ",
 ", it 's the very definition of epic adventure . ",
 "cardboard characters and performers ",
 "it well worth watching ",
 "well , it probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises ",
 ", emotionally honest ",
 "the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . ",
 "bored cage ",
 "have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life ",
 "the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . ",
 "those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness ",
 "gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material ",
 "brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel ",
 "brilliant and macabre ",
 "contemptible ",
 "patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop ",
 "of human frailty fascinates ",
 "its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that ",
 "'s worse ",
 "whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that ",
 ", touching ",
 "is worse ",
 "instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . ",
 "a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . ",
 "needing other people ",
 "just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years ",
 "broomfield is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness ",
 "to hell ",
 "little farm melodrama . ",
 "maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout ",
 "under a rock ",
 "blandly ",
 "with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period ",
 "modest masterpiece . ",
 "an exclamation point ",
 "of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure ",
 "a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling ",
 "when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . ",
 "think of a film more cloyingly ",
 "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 ",
 "totally overwrought ",
 "a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth ",
 "style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story ",
 "traffic ",
 "delightfully charming -- and totally american ",
 "doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything ",
 "was right about blade ",
 "dumb , narratively chaotic ",
 "is that the entire exercise has no real point ",
 "sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that ",
 "should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",
 "good , hard-edged stuff ",
 "'ve learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is ",
 "a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . ",
 "succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape ",
 "fragmented film ",
 ", if uneven , ",
 "to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn ",
 "derailed by bad writing and ",
 "the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . ",
 "while the third feels limited by its short running time ",
 "memorable ",
 ", retrospectively , his most personal work yet . ",
 "the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story 's morals ",
 "aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . ",
 "it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going ",
 "is thought-provoking ",
 ", those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . ",
 "during that final , beautiful scene ",
 "adoring , wide-smiling reception ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "do justice to the awfulness of the movie , ",
 "holds interest ",
 "comedic writing ",
 "pale xerox of other , better crime movies ",
 "almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation ",
 "conservative christian parents and ",
 "he was reading the minds of the audience . ",
 "some good , organic character work ",
 "at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten ",
 "sly , sophisticated and surprising . ",
 "potentially just as rewarding ",
 "in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who do n't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes ",
 "a listless and desultory affair ",
 "the guys still feels counterproductive ",
 "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna ",
 "seen it all before , ",
 "particularly original ",
 "remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt ",
 "the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . ",
 "filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world 's democracie ",
 "lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ",
 "one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original ",
 "it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . ",
 ", riveting and handsomely ",
 "spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects ",
 "is oppressively heavy ",
 "just plain ",
 "we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they 'll wind up together , and michele 's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest ",
 "pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws ",
 "the piano teacher ",
 "among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . ",
 "cheesy b-movie playing ",
 "a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar ",
 "'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 . ",
 "leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending ",
 "a half-hearted fluke ",
 "ballsy ",
 "that calvin jr. 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago 's south side ",
 "grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care ",
 "does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre ",
 "the problem with `` xxx '' is that its own action is n't very effective . ",
 "morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",
 "there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer ",
 "to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films ",
 "too little ",
 "carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy ",
 "one feels cheated ",
 "talkiness is n't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . ",
 "succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that 's simultaneously painful and refreshing . ",
 "show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting ",
 "has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama . ",
 "exquisitely performed ",
 "absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "bristles with passion and energy ",
 "its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing ",
 "achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture ",
 ", what makes the movie fresh ",
 "leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts ",
 "sparkles ",
 "an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot ",
 "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 . ",
 "for the best ",
 "it 's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that 's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . ",
 "thanks to huston 's revelatory performance ",
 "mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and ",
 "brosnan is more feral in this film than i 've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . ",
 "movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that do n't care about being stupid ",
 ", worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it ",
 "a dreary , humorless soap opera ",
 "awful sour taste ",
 "a zombie movie in every sense of the word -- mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious ",
 "its contrivances ",
 "almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- ",
 "marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich ",
 "atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie ",
 "toward maximum comfort and familiarity ",
 "it 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating . ",
 "as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day ",
 "while it can be a bit repetitive ",
 "collateral ",
 "idiocy ",
 "with his picture-perfect life ",
 "actor michel serrault ",
 ", it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie ",
 "emotionally and narratively complex ",
 "a must-see ",
 "each one of these people stand out ",
 "warm and well-told ",
 "should strike a nerve in many . ",
 "the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong 's versatile stanley kwan . ",
 "able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting ",
 "is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . ",
 "deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture ",
 "retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode ",
 "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 . ",
 "status ",
 "one of the worst films of 2002 . ",
 "crippled by poor casting . ",
 "could use a little more humanity , but ",
 "a rather tired ",
 "things fall apart ",
 "he has something significant to say ",
 "the most part a useless movie ",
 "for anyone ",
 "listless , witless , and ",
 "a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . ",
 ", we hope it 's only acting . ",
 "intricate magic ",
 ", imaginative kid 's movie ",
 "a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times ",
 "the world 's most fascinating stories ",
 "sometimes beautiful ",
 "did n't connect with me would require another viewing ",
 "the murder ",
 "farcically bawdy ",
 "the full ticket price to see `` simone , '' and consider a dvd rental instead ",
 "the pre-teen crowd ",
 "a dearth of vitality ",
 "unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater near you . ",
 "entertaining british hybrid ",
 "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 . ",
 "amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky 's cleverly constructed scenario ",
 "fully realized story ",
 "pouty-lipped poof ",
 "suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ",
 "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 ",
 "a portrait of two strong men in conflict ",
 "his difficult , endless work ",
 "without bludgeoning the audience over the head ",
 "we believe in them ",
 "serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey ",
 "get excited about on this dvd ",
 "cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style ",
 "of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen ",
 "the lively appeal ",
 "the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries ",
 "( a ) thoughtful , visually graceful work . ",
 "seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was ... hence , storytelling is far more appealing . ",
 "be intolerable company ",
 "if the video is n't back at blockbuster before midnight , you 're going to face frightening late fees ",
 "real ",
 "die ",
 "no real surprises ",
 "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 . ",
 "usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails ",
 "it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ",
 "his reserved but existential poignancy ",
 "the waste ",
 "with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability ",
 "older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b.s. one another and put on a show in drag ",
 "an earnest study ",
 "the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . ",
 "schaeffer 's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs ",
 "properly intense , claustrophobic tale ",
 "with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch ",
 "genial romance ",
 "are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . ",
 "chilling advantage ",
 "farcically ",
 "as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that 's been given the drive of a narrative and that 's been acted out -- ",
 "should bolster director and co-writer ",
 "succeeds . ",
 "it 's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message ",
 "the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ",
 ", seamless and sumptuous stream ",
 "none of this is very original ",
 "good a job as anyone ",
 "the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",
 "an honored screen veteran ",
 "succeeds through sincerity ",
 "deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . ",
 "time waster ' ",
 "was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in ",
 "certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ",
 "of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end ",
 "weaving a theme throughout this funny film ",
 "on character ",
 "gives you an idea just how bad it was ",
 "slapdash disaster ",
 "breaking new ground ",
 "spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship ",
 "a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and ",
 "is a lot more bluster than bite . ",
 "that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life ",
 "on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing ",
 "captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world ",
 "skid-row ",
 "is the far superior film . ",
 "stranded ",
 "infatuation ",
 "captivating coming-of-age story ",
 "lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics ",
 "'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 ",
 "black hawk down and we were soldiers ",
 "one makes ",
 "naqoyqatsi ' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",
 ", like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",
 "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 ",
 "a good documentarian ",
 "comes up shorter than britney 's cutoffs ",
 "metaphysical ",
 "the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , ",
 "is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . ",
 "the romance between the leads is n't as compelling or as believable as it should be . ",
 "the script , which has a handful of smart jokes ",
 "ruined by amateurish writing and acting ",
 "spirals downward , ",
 "exhilarating , ",
 "a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . ",
 "it 's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men ",
 "evans is ) a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",
 "neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price . ",
 "at once both refreshingly different and ",
 "an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream ",
 "shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film ",
 "be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john ",
 "wry and engrossing ",
 "compelling historical tale ",
 "well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too ",
 "might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about ",
 "climax and , worst of all ",
 "i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ",
 "that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood ",
 "exciting moviemaking ",
 "attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern ",
 "touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , ",
 "that 's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l.a. 's show-biz and media ",
 "it 's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you do n't try to look too deep into the story ",
 "celebrated ",
 "more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there 's no time to think about them anyway . ",
 ", eloquent film ",
 "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 ",
 "for leonard ",
 "leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . ",
 "whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance ",
 "the most watchable film ",
 "very sincere work ",
 "as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love story derisions ",
 "unadorned ",
 "grisly ",
 "a student film ",
 "would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility ",
 "winning ",
 "somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler ",
 "philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . ",
 "the subject with fondness and respect ",
 "could have -- should have -- been allowed ",
 "for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound ",
 "if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary ... ",
 "plain crap ",
 "wholly unnecessary addition ",
 "gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clich\u00e9s . ",
 "is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . ",
 "the baseball-playing monkey ",
 "some delightful work ",
 "engaging diatribes ",
 "watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ",
 "of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain ",
 "american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place ",
 "equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid . ",
 "timely , tongue-in-cheek ",
 "simply ",
 "comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor ",
 "could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again ",
 "of junk ",
 "'s pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish ",
 "visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet ",
 "buy is an accomplished actress , ",
 "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 , ",
 "skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ",
 "trying to be more complex than your average film ",
 "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 ",
 "from cheap-shot mediocrity ",
 "stiff and ",
 "- i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ",
 "and undemanding armchair tourists ",
 "the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks ",
 "this gentle , mesmerizing portrait ",
 "manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . ",
 "valiantly keep punching up the mix . ",
 "a completely honest , open-hearted film ",
 "a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be ",
 "tear-stained ",
 ", madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! ",
 "quarter the fun of toy story 2 ",
 "shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team ",
 "fun-seeking summer audiences ",
 "'s hard to pity the ` plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss ",
 "makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . ",
 "heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable ",
 "a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . ",
 "the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama ",
 "story and his juvenile camera movements ",
 "a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator ",
 "be like trying to eat brussels sprouts ",
 "has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . ",
 "best brush ",
 "portrays their cartoon counterparts well ",
 "a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking ",
 ", the journey does n't really go anywhere . ",
 "means to face your fears ",
 "brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch ",
 "star power , a pop-induced score ",
 "you forget you 've been to the movies . ",
 "this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy ",
 "are very expressive ",
 "genre gem ",
 "love , family ",
 "there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but ",
 "be called the best korean film of 2002 ",
 "broad cross-section ",
 "as artificial and soulless ",
 "of a legal thriller ",
 "worth yet another visit ",
 "when you 've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . ",
 "much better mother-daughter tale ",
 "brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents ",
 "chuckle ",
 "the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . ",
 "need n't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes ' work ",
 "just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . ",
 "than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand ",
 "extensive post-production ",
 "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 . ",
 "life and beauty ",
 "did n't convince me that calvin jr. 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago 's south side . ",
 "the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . ",
 "schmaltzy ",
 "the requisite faux-urban vibe and ",
 "manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance ",
 "than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low ",
 "a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion ",
 "an opportunity to embrace small , sweet ` evelyn ",
 "superhero ",
 "a snore ",
 "terrorist ",
 "the emperor 's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . ",
 "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 ",
 "heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment ",
 "an uneven film for the most part ",
 "acted and directed , it 's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses ",
 "strong performances ",
 "want the story to go on and on ",
 "went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside ",
 "c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",
 ", yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . ",
 "spectacularly outrageous ",
 "comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . ",
 "when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",
 "worth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia ",
 "a bad premise , just a bad movie ",
 "a minimalist beauty and ",
 "a stand up and cheer flick ",
 "encouraging thought ",
 "eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful ",
 "our infantilized culture ",
 "compromising that complexity ",
 "extravagantly redeems it ",
 "commands ",
 "corruption ",
 "amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest ",
 "the food is enticing ",
 "cutesy romantic tale ",
 "does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas ",
 "an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short ",
 ", the film works as well as it does because of the performances . ",
 "antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories ",
 "affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad ",
 "a breathtakingly assured and stylish work ",
 "beautiful film ",
 "you are likely to witness in a movie theater for some time ",
 "nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining ",
 "imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene . ",
 "the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest ",
 "though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . ",
 "i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it 's too long and ",
 "is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery ",
 "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 . ",
 "who are trying to make their way through this tragedy ",
 "jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations ",
 "the film never feels derivative ",
 "is dazzling ",
 "its emotional power ",
 "marvelous performance ",
 "of purpose ",
 "trudge ",
 "the film 's messages of tolerance and diversity are n't particularly original ",
 "it overstays its natural running time ",
 "how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture ",
 "beyond-lame satire ",
 "i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but ",
 "simply stupid , irrelevant ",
 "nary an original idea ",
 "the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings ",
 "loosely connected ",
 "unamusing ",
 "is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still ",
 "probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists ",
 "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 . ",
 "stunning film ",
 "could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own ",
 "the delicious trimmings ... arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute ... with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . ",
 "believable performances ",
 "from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists ",
 "study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . ",
 "duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",
 "he 's one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . ",
 "`` soon-to-be-forgettable '' section ",
 "the tale commands attention . ",
 "show to steal ",
 "is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us ",
 "bizarre , implausible ",
 "suitably anonymous chiller ",
 "entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed ",
 "is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . ",
 "with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , ( crane ) becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . ",
 "multi-layered and profoundly ",
 "very satisfying ",
 "the feel of a fanciful motion picture ",
 "vibrant , and intelligent ",
 "the yawning chasm where the plot should be ",
 "family-oriented ",
 "top-notch action powers this romantic drama . ",
 "jacobi , the most fluent of actors , ",
 "so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation ",
 "to arrest development in a dead-end existence ",
 "sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note ",
 "providing an experience that is richer than anticipated ",
 "'s refreshing to see a romance this smart ",
 "most importantly ",
 "this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking ",
 "perfectly formed ",
 "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 ",
 "the cartoonish clich\u00e9s and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type ",
 "flat , flat dialogue ",
 "infidelity ",
 "is not first-rate ",
 "both overplayed and exaggerated ",
 "in no small part thanks to lau ",
 "a loquacious and dreary piece ",
 "has about 25 minutes of decent material ",
 "m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema ",
 "become smug or sanctimonious ",
 "if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product ",
 "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 . ",
 "an intelligent romantic thriller ",
 "it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults ",
 "into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style ",
 "a wonderful , imaginative script ",
 "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 ",
 "all of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . ",
 "that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny ",
 "ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah ",
 "rousing ",
 "that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain ",
 "good ideas ",
 "suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme ",
 "of charm ",
 "to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything ",
 "stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy ",
 "foolish ",
 "your idea of a good time ",
 "offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity . ",
 "every visual joke is milked , ",
 "maggots crawling on a dead dog ",
 "brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy ",
 "have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film ",
 "best espionage picture ",
 "could make you weep ",
 "the , yes , snail-like pacing ",
 "into a laugh-free lecture ",
 "beaten ",
 "soulful , ",
 "parapsychological ",
 "brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ) ",
 "french cinema 's master craftsmen ",
 "the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ",
 "actually amusing ",
 "like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit . ",
 "be half as entertaining as it is ",
 "epic ",
 "that the franchise 's best years are long past ",
 "as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr. lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",
 "melodramatic movie ",
 "most brilliant and brutal ",
 "other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital ",
 "mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls ",
 "inexcusable dumb ",
 "it were , well , more adventurous ",
 "a poem to the enduring strengths of women ",
 "long-lived friendships ",
 "acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , ",
 "thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere ",
 ", violent and mindless ",
 "a great companion piece ",
 "cheap-looking ",
 "with a sickening thud ",
 "fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . ",
 "feel anything much while watching this movie , ",
 "addict ",
 "the wild thornberrys movie ",
 "the predictable parent ",
 "recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist 's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak ",
 "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 ",
 "a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ",
 "achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions ",
 "gorgeous ",
 "play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life ",
 "it 's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible . ",
 "unclean ",
 "a fascinating , bombshell documentary ",
 "manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience ",
 "more fascinating than the results ",
 "the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago ",
 "the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . ",
 "seeing this trite , predictable rehash ",
 "must see for all sides of the political spectrum ",
 "wonderfully sprawling soap opera ",
 "the most highly-praised disappointments i ",
 "though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there 's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",
 "large cast ",
 "soulless jumble ",
 "hits every cliche we 've come to expect , including the assumption that `` crazy '' people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny ",
 "it 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and ",
 "morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clich\u00e9s and borrowed images ",
 "the heart as well as ",
 "excellent companion piece ",
 "you 'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine state . ",
 "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 . ",
 "i do n't think that a.c. will help this movie one bit ",
 "quite fun in places ",
 "is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it ca n't really be called animation . ",
 ", pasty lumpen ",
 "narrative banality ",
 "jolly , fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway ",
 "of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema ",
 "hit that may strain adult credibility ",
 "the incredible storyline ",
 "the film buzz and whir ; very little of it ",
 "good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there 's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat ",
 "entertain all ages ",
 "terribly ",
 "there 's much to recommend the film . ",
 "whose charms are immediately apparent ",
 "powerful act ",
 "often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast ",
 "inarticulate ",
 "any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast ",
 "ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro . ",
 "'s sharply comic and surprisingly touching , ",
 "will be well worth your time . ",
 "flabby ",
 "littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed ",
 "dynamic first act ",
 "` innovative ' and ` realistic ' ",
 "be as entertaining ",
 "a bitter pill ",
 "'s hard to say who might enjoy this ",
 "muck ",
 "there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction ",
 "has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years ",
 "animated movies in quite a while ",
 "sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins ",
 "well loved classic ",
 "about death ",
 "this is classic nowheresville in every sense ",
 "in addition to scoring high for originality of plot ",
 "the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham ",
 "be a bit of a cheat in the end ",
 "funnier ",
 "is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . ",
 "rick ",
 "most devastating ",
 "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 ",
 ", despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . ",
 "seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . ",
 "a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well ",
 "director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood ",
 "do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile ",
 "toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . ",
 "the gloomy film noir veil ",
 "unfortunately also ",
 "is just too original to be ignored ",
 "well-mounted history lesson ",
 "had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd ",
 "that embraces its old-fashioned themes ",
 "you 'll love this movie . ",
 "there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; ",
 "the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey ... ( it ) comes off like a hallmark commercial . ",
 "electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness ",
 "technically proficient and without the pop-up comments ",
 "interminable , shapeless documentary ",
 "already tired ",
 "it falls far short of poetry , ",
 "( frames ) profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment ",
 "satisfy ",
 "has done excellent work here . ",
 "avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style ",
 ", cliche-ridden ",
 "innovative ",
 "new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers ",
 "piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art ",
 "cop flick cliches ",
 "who are nearly impossible to care about ",
 "more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are ... ",
 "'s very beavis and butthead , ",
 "the komediant is a tale worth catching . ",
 "juicy ",
 "about the benjamins that 's hard to resist ",
 "down to mediocrity ",
 "a tragic love story ",
 "been there , done that , liked it much better ",
 "imbued with passion and attitude ",
 "by the shadowy lighting ",
 "the edge of your seat , tense with suspense ",
 "it 's a dish that 's best served cold ",
 "fluid and mesmerizing sequence ",
 "scores a direct hit . ",
 "any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve ",
 "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 . ",
 "slapping its target audience ",
 "long and eventful ",
 "very best pictures ",
 "too much syrup ",
 "pretend like your sat scores are below 120 ",
 "this enthralling documentary ",
 "comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . ",
 "a jackie chan movie ",
 "side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull ",
 "such a bore ",
 "to cliches and pat storytelling ",
 "simple and soapy ",
 "do well to check this one out ",
 "the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne ",
 "failing ",
 "the sword fighting is well done and ",
 "... 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 ... ",
 "as any other arnie musclefest ",
 "a coma ",
 "little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film ",
 "by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers ",
 "a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches ",
 "an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco ... ",
 "useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal ",
 "tosses around sex toys and offers ",
 "hollywood ending is a depressing experience ",
 ", delicately performed ",
 "injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",
 "own meager weight ",
 "about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams ",
 "substantial depth ",
 "uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated ",
 "huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes ",
 "a tour de force ",
 "virulent and foul-natured ",
 "rejects patent solutions to dramatize life 's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks ",
 "of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions ",
 "sumptuous stream ",
 "refreshed and hopeful ",
 "are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject ",
 "a welcome relief ",
 "melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold ",
 "powerful drama ",
 "a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him ",
 "the adrenaline jolt ",
 "in addition to hoffman 's powerful acting clinic ",
 "and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans ",
 "at the variety of tones in spielberg 's work ",
 "lunacy ",
 "exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean ",
 "low-budget ",
 "with the transparent attempts at moralizing ",
 "been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention ",
 "the universal themes , ",
 "most daring , and ",
 "is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . ",
 "huge action sequence ",
 "sent back to the tailor for some major alterations ",
 "... the story , like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",
 "bottom-rung new jack city wannabe . ",
 "bouncing bravado ",
 "brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life ",
 "does n't necessarily ",
 "rated eee for excitement ",
 "deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . ",
 "topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . ",
 "at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois ",
 "a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages ",
 "one of the best gay love stories ever made ",
 "true to its animatronic roots : ",
 "misanthropic comedies ",
 "pretty stupid ",
 "of extraordinary journalism ",
 "the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . ",
 "the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that 's where this film should have remained ",
 "they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . ",
 "more playful tone ",
 "taken ",
 "perfectly entertaining ",
 "for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it ",
 "can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ",
 "mib ii '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless . ",
 "some serious suspense ",
 "odd , poetic road movie ",
 "dim-witted and ",
 "( ahola ) has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation . ",
 "chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . ",
 "good vampire tale ",
 "it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point ",
 "shines in her quiet blue eyes ",
 "'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 ",
 "at his most sparkling ",
 "should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days ",
 "this aging series ",
 "and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated ",
 "it 's not like having a real film of nijinsky ",
 "he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals ",
 "wait for the video ",
 "no-surprise ",
 "evelyn comes from the heart . ",
 "this real-life hollywood fairy-tale ",
 "flailing reputation ",
 "barely tolerable ",
 "crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script ",
 "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 . ",
 "work -- is charming , ",
 "odoriferous thing ",
 "magical enough ",
 "fun-loving ",
 "most substantial feature for some time ",
 "all its moodiness ",
 "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 . ",
 "shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . ",
 "titillating material ",
 "the road warrior ",
 "i 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but ",
 "the movie tries to make sense of its title character ",
 "first ",
 "attractive and ",
 "is extraordinarily good ",
 "strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose ",
 "a dashing and absorbing ",
 "executed it takes your breath away . ",
 "real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ",
 "illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in ",
 "is uniformly superb ",
 "to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ",
 "the background -- a welcome step ",
 "about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family ",
 ", you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions ",
 "'s something of the ultimate scorsese film ",
 "than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises ",
 "lucratively ",
 "( a ) thoughtful , visually graceful ",
 "for only 71 minutes ",
 "take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he 'll be your slave for a year . ",
 "pleasing verisimilitude ",
 "is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination ",
 "the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ",
 "disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves ",
 "directed with verve ",
 "evolved from star to superstar ",
 "tear your eyes ",
 "disturbance ",
 "as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast ",
 "easily and , in the end , not well enough ",
 "fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte ",
 "'s understanding of the expressive power of the camera . ",
 "ring hollow ",
 "first and foremost ... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings . ",
 "seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots ",
 "mean things ",
 "with the american dream ",
 "siren ",
 "although this idea is `` new '' the results are tired ",
 "do the subject matter justice ",
 "borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",
 "the year 's worst cinematic tragedies ",
 "consistent with the messages espoused in the company 's previous video work ",
 "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 ",
 "that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ",
 "lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting ",
 "is standard crime drama fare ... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . ",
 "can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas ",
 "real and ",
 "'ve reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness ",
 "a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor ",
 "the choices ",
 ", though goofy and lurid , ",
 "of the avant-garde fused with their humor ",
 "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 . ",
 "about an adult male dressed in pink jammies ",
 "it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it ",
 "exploitative and largely devoid ",
 "hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work ",
 "completely predictable plot ",
 "screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum ",
 "is even more ludicrous than you 'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre ",
 "it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor ",
 "nonsensical and ",
 "fails on its own , but ",
 "too amateurish and awkward ",
 "ethical and philosophical ",
 "victimized ",
 "with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations ",
 "rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent ",
 "insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . ",
 "seem so impersonal or even shallow ",
 "extravagantly ",
 "with conspicuous success ",
 "the delicious trimmings ",
 "'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 . ",
 "who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces ",
 "in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- ",
 "will likely prefer to keep on watching ",
 "back with the astonishing revelation ",
 "a deliciously nonsensical comedy ",
 "major pleasures ",
 "major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ",
 "is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout ",
 "if you 're not , you 'll still have a good time . '' ",
 "who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted ",
 "was put through torture for an hour and a half ",
 "not enough puff ",
 "courageous ",
 "is unusual but unfortunately also irritating ",
 "low-grade ",
 "requiring a great deal of thought ",
 "major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee ",
 "is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . ",
 "open yourself up to mr. reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ",
 "the rare imax movie that you 'll wish ",
 "a delicious crime drama on par ",
 "dared to mess with some powerful people ",
 "stands as one of the great films about movie love ",
 ": it 's not really funny . ",
 "funny pace ",
 "drab ",
 "languorous charm ",
 "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 ) ",
 "no way original , or even ",
 "gorgeous color palette ",
 "difficult , endless ",
 "to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you do n't have kids borrow some ",
 "escaped the rut dug by the last one ",
 "laughingly ",
 "is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story ",
 "a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . ",
 "daring and ",
 "it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad ",
 "mind-numbingly awful ",
 "did n't particularly like e.t. the first time i saw it as a young boy ",
 "find comfort in familiarity ",
 "( lin chung 's ) voice is rather unexceptional ",
 "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 . ",
 "diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly ",
 "taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling ",
 "can detract from the affection of that moral favorite ",
 "makes the grade as tawdry trash . ",
 "dumped ",
 "directed , barely , by there ",
 "warm , fuzzy feeling ",
 "combines the enigmatic features of ` memento ' with the hallucinatory drug culture of ` requiem for a dream . ",
 "breathtakingly ",
 "an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting ",
 "the ethereal beauty ",
 "passe ",
 "as a tragic figure ",
 "faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill ",
 "ca n't recommend it . ",
 "under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . ",
 "an entertainment ",
 "male hip hop fantasy ",
 "major problem ",
 "make the suckers out there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life ",
 "often hilarious . ",
 "an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson ",
 "needed so badly ",
 "a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that 's so prevalent on the rock . ",
 "which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche ",
 "pushed to their most virtuous limits ",
 "runs out of steam after a half hour ",
 "no character , ",
 "holocaust escape story ",
 "is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humor and pathos . ",
 "to turn his movie in an unexpected direction ",
 "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 . ",
 "allowing us to find the small , human moments , and ",
 "is almost entirely witless and inane , ",
 "fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera ",
 "humor and poignancy ",
 ", it still seems endless . ",
 "a good-natured ensemble comedy ",
 "brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images ",
 "been worth cheering as a breakthrough ",
 "is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood ",
 "congrats disney on a job ",
 "entirely wholesome ",
 "mugging their way through snow dogs ",
 "second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief ",
 "a more graceful way ",
 "every punchline predictable ",
 "a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",
 "displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard ",
 "the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . ",
 "manages to be even worse than its title ",
 ", this is the one . ",
 "a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity ",
 "strangely believable ",
 "a gangster movie with the capacity to surprise . ",
 "wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse ",
 "original and highly cerebral ",
 "j. lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she 's a pretty woman , but she 's no working girl . ",
 "is worth your time , ",
 "`` 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 . ",
 "the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . ",
 "something else altogether -- clownish and ",
 "playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper ",
 "fest that 'll put hairs on your chest . ",
 "hugely enjoyable film ",
 "is still charming here ",
 "is funny , charming and quirky ",
 "sympathetic without being gullible ",
 "can get on television for free ",
 "brutally labored and unfunny ",
 "humor and ",
 "a film school undergrad ",
 "manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it ",
 "mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved ",
 "with amazing finesse ",
 "valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view ",
 "the pianist ( is ) a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life ",
 "sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i do n't see the point ",
 "smoothly ",
 "contrasting the sleekness of the film 's present with the playful paranoia of the film 's past ",
 "unholy hokum ",
 "'s lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this ",
 "comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours ",
 "succumbing to sentimentality ",
 "should never forget ",
 "... for all its social and political potential , state property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful . ",
 "all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale ",
 "will turn out okay ",
 "we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera ",
 "has no place to go since simone is not real ",
 "creeps into your heart . ",
 "the magnificent jackie chan ",
 "its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity ",
 "like a lazy summer afternoon ",
 "paced and satisfying ",
 "first-class , natural acting and a look at `` the real americans '' ",
 ", should scare any sane person away . ",
 "try hard ",
 "impressive results ",
 "sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that ",
 "intricate preciseness ",
 "the cleverness , the weirdness and ",
 "this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend ",
 "a man has made about women since valley of the dolls ",
 "over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own ",
 "a thoughtful what-if ",
 "poor ",
 "is extremely thorough ",
 "praises female self-sacrifice ",
 "argentine retread ",
 "it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama ",
 "is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype ",
 "rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",
 "though it 's not very well shot or composed or edited ",
 "for self-deprecating comedy ",
 "with the clich\u00e9-laden screenplay ",
 "interminably bleak , to say nothing of boring . ",
 "becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . ",
 "suited neither to kids or adults ",
 "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 ",
 "too predictably ",
 ", are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence . ",
 "what 's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ",
 "director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , ",
 "the observations ",
 "stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal ",
 "a natural sense for what works ",
 "hollywood confection ",
 "gets full mileage ",
 "suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought ",
 "a revealing look at the collaborative process ",
 "sharp comedy , ",
 "an extraordinary film , not least ",
 "turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . ",
 "been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over ",
 "becomes a sermon for most of its running time ",
 "the premise of `` abandon '' holds promise , ... ",
 "bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",
 "suitably kooky which should appeal to women ",
 "a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , ",
 "a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt ",
 "seem to hit ",
 "cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . ",
 "easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters ",
 "its leaden acting , dull exposition and ",
 "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 . ",
 "urge to doze ",
 "to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it ",
 "the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor 's doorstep . ",
 "a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , ",
 "its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads . ",
 "that criticizing feels more like commiserating ",
 "is a tribute to shyamalan 's gifts , which are such that we 'll keep watching the skies for his next project ",
 "high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government / marine/legal mystery ",
 "ferrara 's best film in years . ",
 "true fans ",
 "robin williams , death to smoochy ",
 "blazingly alive and admirable ",
 "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 ",
 "crappy ",
 "steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . ",
 "... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . ",
 "alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . ",
 "if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . ",
 "fires on all plasma conduits ",
 "feels all too familiar ",
 "the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . ",
 "starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers ",
 "it 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . ",
 "and vulgar innuendo ",
 "retread , ",
 "hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character 's gripping humanity . ",
 "marvelously twisted shapes history ",
 "of privileged moments and memorable performances ",
 "a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and ",
 "pallid horror ",
 "depress you ",
 "intelligent movie ",
 "have a great time ",
 "its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture ",
 "from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also ",
 "does n't quite know how to fill a frame ",
 "a strangely sinister happy ending ",
 "a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , ",
 "is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries ",
 "is amazing , yes ",
 "glory days ",
 "'s a long way from orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry ( 1984 ) ",
 "( reno ) lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w. bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . ",
 "stare and sniffle ",
 "bad mixture ",
 "like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out ",
 "other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap ",
 "scorsese 's bold images ",
 "as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound ",
 "to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ",
 "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\u00e9 . ",
 "are quietly moving ",
 ", it 's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . ",
 "to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images ",
 "an awful movie ",
 "smart and dark - ",
 "throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , `` look at this ! ",
 "does n't do more than expand a tv show to movie length ",
 "ploddingly sociological commentary ",
 "a quaint , romanticized rendering . ",
 "a clich\u00e9 left unsaid ",
 "of this tacky nonsense ",
 ", moving ",
 ", refreshingly , ",
 "a sure hand ",
 "pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone ",
 "coordinated his own dv poetry ",
 "has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day ",
 "is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . ",
 "well-intentioned effort ",
 "assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . ",
 "not a trace of humanity or empathy ",
 "that the movie does not do them justice ",
 "every aggrieved father clich\u00e9 ",
 "'s suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary ",
 "most horrific movie experience ",
 "cheap , ",
 "his dead mother ",
 "craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison ",
 "paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe ",
 "is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs. the big guys ",
 "has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . ",
 "smooth and professional ",
 "stay positive ",
 "brings the proper conviction ",
 "saddled ",
 "ignore but a little too smugly superior ",
 "remarkably cohesive ",
 "somewhat tired premise ",
 "a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives ",
 "is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year ",
 "no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes ",
 "the experience worthwhile ",
 "'s never dull and ",
 "blasphemous and ",
 "'s at once laughable and compulsively watchable ",
 "insightful about kissinger 's background and history ",
 "unholy hokum . ",
 "the film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . ",
 "stay away ",
 "least favorite ",
 "hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers ",
 "a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . ",
 "dumb gags , anatomical humor , or ",
 "very funny ",
 "hot and the john wayne classics ",
 "features fincher 's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . ",
 "than the real thing ",
 "all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore ",
 "understands the workings of its spirit ",
 "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 . ",
 "into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary ",
 "like quirky , slightly strange french films ",
 "particularly memorable effect ",
 "one summer film that satisfies ",
 "'s one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . ",
 "in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy ",
 "puzzle whose pieces do not fit . ",
 "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 ",
 ", unassuming , subordinate ",
 "to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy ",
 "generating suspense ",
 "hoary dialogue , ",
 "the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but ",
 "is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel ",
 "delivered with such conviction that it 's hard not to be carried away ",
 "an excellent 90-minute film ",
 "blazingly ",
 "an undeniably moving film to experience , ",
 "'s not too much of anything ",
 "perfect for a ballplayer ",
 "a wish your heart makes ",
 "anchored by splendid performances ",
 "too stupid ",
 "engages us in constant fits of laughter ",
 "the elements that will grab you ",
 "and unsettling subject matter ",
 "entertaining tricks ",
 "'s both charming and ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "it 's hardly a necessary enterprise . ",
 "it 's the best sequel since the empire strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . ",
 "is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ",
 "its many out-sized , ",
 "a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind ",
 "interesting social ",
 "donovan ... squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",
 "( it 's ) what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction ",
 "a glimmer ",
 "this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful ",
 "do we have that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ? ",
 "have the best of both worlds ",
 "projector 's ",
 "lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers 's title-bout features . ",
 "superior horror flick ",
 "do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't ",
 "to the integrity and vision of the band ",
 "teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop ",
 "unhibited ",
 "is a really special walk in the woods . ",
 "an unsuccessful attempt at a movie ",
 "a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... ",
 "for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it 's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . ",
 "wide-awake all the way through ",
 "wonderful creatures ",
 "-- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english -- ",
 "clever ",
 "romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . ",
 "stirring , funny ",
 "merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way ",
 "goes awry ",
 "an interesting slice ",
 "the problem with wendigo , ",
 "the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; ",
 "a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock ",
 "to classify as it is hard to resist ",
 "can be viewed as pure composition and form -- ",
 "the thin veneer of nationalism ",
 "is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors ",
 "dislikable study in sociopathy . ",
 "injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater ",
 "smug and convoluted ",
 "some of the visual flourishes ",
 "but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . ",
 "goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering ",
 "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 ",
 "they were insulted and ",
 "while cleverly worked out ",
 "best inside-show-biz ",
 "a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence ",
 "that we 'll keep watching the skies for his next project ",
 "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 . ",
 "are , with the drumming routines , among the film 's saving graces . ",
 "hilariously , gloriously alive , ",
 "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 . ",
 "disgusting to begin with ",
 "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 . ",
 "lots of effort and intelligence ",
 "in the mood for an intelligent weepy ",
 "the brave , uninhibited performances ",
 "the charm of the first movie is still there ",
 "idealistic kid ",
 "more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing ",
 "the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen ",
 "a lumbering , wheezy drag ",
 "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 did n't ",
 "is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . ",
 "steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films ",
 "combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions ",
 "outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks ",
 "that will probably sink the film for anyone who does n't think about percentages all day long ",
 "detail ",
 "has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ",
 "messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd ",
 "a 94-minute travesty ",
 "lackluster ",
 "wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a `` 2 '' at the end of its title . ",
 ", it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time . ",
 "small but rewarding comedy ",
 "disappointment coming ",
 "lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . ",
 "deferred and desire ",
 "stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish ",
 "i killed my father ",
 "very compelling tale ",
 "with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers ",
 "interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul 's perspective ",
 "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 . ",
 "such a bad movie ",
 "absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer ",
 "fire a torpedo ",
 "we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . ",
 "eerily ",
 "in such a gloriously goofy way ",
 "jerking off ",
 "perfect show ",
 "witty , ",
 "eventual discovery ",
 "is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship . ",
 ", it 's too long and unfocused . ",
 "the qualities ",
 "some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy ",
 "as the mediterranean sparkles ",
 "not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . ",
 "the film sits with square conviction ",
 "timely and important ",
 "it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it ",
 "but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time ",
 "tells a fascinating , compelling story ",
 "is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . ",
 "gives it a buoyant delivery ",
 "a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score ",
 "wannabe ",
 "bottom-rung ",
 "an overall sense of brusqueness ",
 "with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks ",
 "diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . ",
 "very light ",
 "welcomed ",
 "anonymous chiller ",
 "amusing juxtapositions ",
 "hugely imaginative and successful casting ",
 "in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself ",
 "make like the title and dodge this one . ",
 "of a really solid woody allen film ",
 "gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . ",
 "are gorgeous and finely detailed ",
 "andie macdowell ",
 "closer than many movies ",
 "to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt ",
 "neatly constructed thriller ",
 "the worst excesses of nouvelle ",
 "that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies ",
 "starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . ",
 "lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics . ",
 "filling nearly every minute ... with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability ",
 "revigorates ",
 "entertaining feature ",
 "a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . ",
 "terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and ",
 ", stupid and pointless ",
 "numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . ",
 "the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic ",
 "ice age wo n't drop your jaw , but ",
 "it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time ",
 "the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots ",
 "is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause ",
 "the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection ",
 ": an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie ",
 "undercuts ",
 "dramatic substance ",
 "having an old friend ",
 "zeal ",
 "the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theaters ",
 "feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo ",
 "shoestring and unevenly ",
 "is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their *** off for an hour-and-a-half ",
 "the writing is indifferent , ",
 "make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok ",
 "is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . ",
 "the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... ",
 "most breezy movie ",
 "dared ",
 "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 . ",
 "this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and ",
 "austin powers for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that come later . ",
 "a moving and not infrequently breathtaking film ",
 "is as bad as you think , and worse than you can imagine . ",
 "has all the actors reaching for the back row ",
 "deserves a look ",
 "for that sense of openness , the little surprises ",
 "like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors ",
 "behan 's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- ",
 "laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'em powerment ",
 "more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat . ",
 "slight but ",
 "a bright future ahead of him ",
 "advancing this vision ",
 "a psycho ",
 "the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and ",
 "dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy ",
 "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 ",
 "portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite ",
 "funny and well-contructed ",
 "rate as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season ",
 "that 's still too burdened by the actor ",
 "opening up ' the play more has partly closed it down . ",
 "emptiness and ",
 "there 's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message ",
 "a problem hollywood too long has ignored ",
 "prominent ",
 "to triumph over a scrooge or two ",
 "'s remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre ",
 "attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated ",
 "the fat ",
 "downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message ",
 "is definitely a cut above the rest . ",
 "the superficial way it deals with its story ",
 "the plot has a number of holes , and at times it 's simply baffling . ",
 "to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention ",
 "would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",
 "a devastating comic impersonation ",
 "turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . ",
 "you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe ",
 "doing its namesake proud ",
 "virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension ",
 "to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams ",
 "brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . ",
 "'ll probably love it ",
 "is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair ",
 "delicious dialogue ",
 "luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago ",
 "depressingly thin ",
 "missing from it ",
 "its courageousness ",
 "love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . ",
 "provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust ",
 ", knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . ",
 "does n't make for great cinema ",
 "as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . ",
 "that is gorgeously ",
 "quiet , introspective and entertaining independent ",
 "serenity and discipline ",
 "is a very funny , heartwarming film ",
 "lacks juice and delight ",
 "the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it 's actually watchable . ",
 ", featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",
 "the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . ",
 "stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made ",
 "to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s ",
 "an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era ",
 "-- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . ",
 "american blockbusters ",
 "of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill ",
 "a text to ` lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast ",
 "pretty bad ",
 "a staggeringly compelling character ",
 "bring tissues . ",
 "an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary ",
 "makes the movie special ",
 "'s a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ",
 ", beautiful scene ",
 ", the first film 's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . ",
 "russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement ",
 "uncomfortable class resentment ",
 "a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically ",
 "with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender ",
 "that only self-aware neurotics engage in ",
 "ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ",
 "in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad ",
 "on mgm 's shelf ",
 "thoroughly enjoyed themselves and ",
 "altogether darker side ",
 "marvelous film ",
 "the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . ",
 "you wish had been developed with more care ",
 "more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 1/2 weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",
 "awkwardly paced ",
 "directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory ",
 "just do n't really care too much about this love story . ",
 ", thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem . ",
 "the fourth `` pokemon '' is a diverting -- if predictable -- adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world 's delicate ecological balance . ",
 "bland animated sequel ",
 "overly convenient plot twists ",
 "a souffl\u00e9 gone wrong ",
 "this is n't a new idea . ",
 "after an uncertain start ",
 "this likable movie ",
 "genre-busting film ",
 ", your senses are as mushy as peas ",
 "the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based ` drama , ",
 "sub ",
 "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 . ",
 "sentimental ooze ",
 "fearless ",
 "offers an intriguing what-if premise ",
 "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 . '' ",
 "the achingly unfunny phonce ",
 "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 . ' ",
 "strong-minded ",
 "reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . ",
 "very good time ",
 "a tree ",
 "undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold ",
 "to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings ",
 "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 ",
 "grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip 's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery ",
 "is an uneven film for the most part ",
 "fun . ",
 "weak and strong ",
 "more simply intrusive to the story ",
 "around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas ",
 "disastrous ending ",
 "remains the real masterpiece ",
 "i think it was plato who said , ' i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theater for this one . ' ",
 "it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring ",
 "right stuff ",
 "for every cheesy scene ",
 "an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . ",
 "an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . ",
 "eloquent memorial ",
 "savvy street activism ",
 "has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery ",
 "in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does ",
 "the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public ",
 "the movie is silly beyond comprehension ",
 "surprisingly powerful and universal . ",
 "the insanity ",
 "of quality ",
 "of an expert thriller ",
 "the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced ... it 's a pity that ( nelson 's ) achievement does n't match his ambition ",
 "unforced comedy-drama ",
 "it 's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul ",
 "truly , truly bad movie ",
 "the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose ",
 "worthwhile documentary ",
 "112-minute ",
 "hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism ",
 "that stands a good chance of being the big ",
 ", duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . ",
 "here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , ",
 "has made tucker a star ",
 "a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline ",
 "ready-made midnight movie ",
 "is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends ",
 ", preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",
 "crisp clarity ",
 "often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness ",
 "tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art . ",
 "does deliver a few gut-busting laughs ",
 "so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar ",
 "wickedly undramatic central theme ",
 ", a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . ",
 "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 . ",
 "who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . ",
 "i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael ",
 "plus , like i already mentioned ... it 's robert duvall ! ",
 "to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on showtime 's ` red shoe diaries ",
 "surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ",
 "to sell us on this twisted love story ",
 "unbearably beautiful ",
 "this film 's cast is uniformly superb ",
 "chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . ",
 "archly funny ",
 "entertainingly ",
 "a weird and wonderful comedy ",
 "we call the ` wow ' factor ",
 ", it gets to you . ",
 "family fun ",
 "it 's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",
 "a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . ",
 "`` the dangerous lives of altar boys '' has flaws , ",
 "technical skill and rare depth ",
 ", you wo n't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",
 "... spiced with humor ( ' i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) ",
 "elegant work ",
 "... begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully . ",
 "its questionable satirical ambivalence ",
 "can find humor ",
 "unsentimental ",
 "idea ( of middle-aged romance ) is not handled well and , ",
 "blockbusters ",
 "the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life ",
 "the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . ",
 "spent watching this waste of time ",
 ", ` it 's like having an old friend for dinner ' . ",
 "the best way ",
 "this kind of hands-on storytelling ",
 "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 . '' ",
 "inert sci-fi action thriller . ",
 "succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them ",
 "value or merit ",
 "breathtakingly spectacular ",
 "roman polanski 's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than ` shindler 's list ' - ",
 "will turn bill paxton into an a-list director ",
 "weird ",
 "the irony is that this film 's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ",
 "like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor ",
 "the rich promise of the script ",
 "( there 's ) quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . ",
 "powerful people ",
 "has a great cast and a great idea . ",
 "is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable ",
 "an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . ",
 "was just a matter of ` eh ",
 ", marvelously twisted shapes history ",
 "stitched together from stock situations and characters ",
 "no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . ",
 "faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , `` a walk to remember '' succeeds through sincerity . ",
 "privileged moments and memorable performances ",
 "paean ",
 "this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . ",
 "is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i 'd care to count . ",
 "falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",
 "a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . ",
 "are both excellent , ",
 "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 . ",
 "when you 're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects ' deaths just so the documentary will be over ",
 "inside an enigma ",
 "the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between ",
 "lurid ",
 "country ",
 "the metaphors are provocative ",
 "that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 . ",
 "down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow ",
 "would fit chan like a $ 99 bargain-basement special ",
 "that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet ",
 ", you 'll still have a good time . '' ",
 "rehashes to feed to the younger generations ",
 "a cute partnership ",
 "the cleverness , ",
 "who cares ? ",
 "scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theaters ",
 "lush scenery ",
 "skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . ",
 "scene-chewing ",
 "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 ",
 ", being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something ",
 "as enlightening , insightful and entertaining ",
 "enhances the personal touch of manual animation ",
 "you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright ",
 "of candid camera ",
 "saucy ",
 "be a one-trick pony ",
 ", french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition ",
 "a good movie ye who enter here ",
 "excites the imagination ",
 "follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , ",
 "educates viewers ",
 "running on empty ",
 "the real triumphs in igby ",
 "brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , ",
 "more ambivalent set ",
 "the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , ",
 "so believable that you feel what they feel ",
 "light-hearted ",
 "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 ",
 "his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place ",
 "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 . ",
 "dry and ",
 "is one of the best actors there is ",
 "should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . ",
 "of the charm and little ",
 "with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",
 "the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing ",
 "stooping to base melodrama ",
 "clunky tv-movie ",
 "revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions ",
 "( i ) t 's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop is n't as funny as it should be . ",
 "watching your favorite pet get buried alive ",
 "for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense ",
 "is too optimistic a title . ",
 "begun to split up so that it can do even more damage ",
 "to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time ",
 "gripping documentary ",
 "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 . ",
 "seeking an existent anti-virus ",
 "laughable ",
 "it made me feel unclean , and ",
 "a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell ",
 "a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes ",
 "for the film 's winning tone ",
 "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 . ",
 "totally lacking ",
 "not mean-spirited ",
 "self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue ",
 "impressive in imax dimensions ",
 ", but also more than anything else slight ... tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . ",
 "is essentially juiceless . ",
 "of the biggest disappointments of the year ",
 "that would set it apart from other deep south stories ",
 "what 's infuriating about full frontal ",
 "stumbles ",
 "somehow snagged an oscar nomination ",
 "a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . ",
 "such a lousy way ",
 "for a quick-buck sequel ",
 "a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing ",
 "disguise the fact that it 's inauthentic at its core and that its story just is n't worth telling ",
 "at his 12th oscar nomination ",
 "the rollicking dark humor so necessary ",
 "one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . ",
 "the boozy self-indulgence ",
 "the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who do n't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . ",
 "too many tried-and-true shenanigans ",
 "little too obvious , ",
 "was essentially , ",
 "plotting and mindless ",
 "... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . ",
 "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 ",
 "subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements ",
 "make up for a derivative plot ",
 "... a bland murder-on-campus yawner . ",
 "a torn book jacket ",
 "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 ",
 "has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . ",
 "an entertaining ride ",
 "worthwhile environmental message ",
 "squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching ",
 "into a gentle waking coma ",
 "crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . ",
 "substance and soul ",
 "impress about e.t. ",
 "liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive ",
 "if only it were , well , funnier . ",
 "enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit ",
 "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 ",
 "is extremely funny ",
 "' i feel better already . ",
 "that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it ",
 "family ",
 "especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english ",
 "is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . ",
 "a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration . ",
 "spooky and subtly ",
 "a low-rent retread ",
 "bullock 's memorable first interrogation of gosling ",
 "the spotlight ",
 "for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover ",
 "has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life ",
 "its unsettling prognosis ",
 "grey zone ",
 "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 . ",
 "indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest ",
 "by then ",
 "channeling kathy baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women 's augustine ",
 "a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights ",
 "memorable and resourceful ",
 "runs on the pure adrenalin ",
 "carries you along ",
 "there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . ",
 "so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump ",
 "well acted by diane lane and richard gere . ",
 "that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie ",
 "depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece ",
 "that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm ",
 "imperfect ",
 "honest working man john q. archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher ",
 "quirky , charming and ",
 "in alcatraz ' ... a cinematic corpse ",
 "astonishingly skillful and moving ... ",
 "totally exemplify ",
 "yet depressing film ",
 "makes it seem ",
 "parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville 's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast ",
 "to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior ",
 "that fights a good fight on behalf of the world 's endangered reefs ",
 "derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold ",
 "is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie . ",
 "will find things to like ",
 "a soul-stirring documentary ",
 "a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ",
 "adding ",
 "each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , ",
 "captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other ",
 "an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album ",
 "ultimately insignificant ",
 "in the ",
 "santa gives gifts to grownups ",
 "the worst sense ",
 "indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant ",
 "must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans ",
 "the gags are often a stitch . ",
 "gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight ",
 "live-action cartoon ",
 "such a mesmerizing one ",
 "highly engaging . ",
 "is disgusting to begin with ",
 "bad and baffling ",
 "itself -- as well its delightful cast -- ",
 "one of the rarest kinds of films ",
 "the nightmare of war ",
 "written , flatly , ",
 "the horrifying historical reality ",
 "is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand . ",
 "feels like a glossy rehash ",
 "and mind games ",
 "big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that ` zany ' does n't necessarily mean ` funny . ' ",
 "of testing boundaries ",
 "stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor ",
 "brown sugar '' admirably aspires to be more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film . ",
 "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 ",
 "halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , ",
 "great over-the-top ",
 "the movie dragged on ",
 "this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies ",
 "the terrifying message ",
 "a film of epic scale ",
 "very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece ",
 "yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere ",
 "would n't be too crazy with his great-grandson 's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . ",
 "crash-and-bash ",
 ", amusing , sad and reflective ",
 "is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . ",
 "anchoring performance ",
 "like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",
 "like a prison stretch ",
 "feel absolutely earned ",
 "without overdoing it ",
 "of breathtaking mystery ",
 "sad to say -- ",
 "formulaic to the 51st power , more like . ",
 "the rare sequel that 's better than its predecessor ",
 "that frenetic spectacle ( on the tv show ) has usually been leavened by a charm that 's conspicuously missing from the girls ' big-screen blowout . ",
 ", they 'll probably run out screaming . ",
 "( westbrook ) makes a wonderful subject for the camera . ",
 "to drag on for nearly three hours ",
 "its shortness disappoints ",
 "has something fascinating ",
 "is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad it ",
 "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 ",
 "are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks ",
 "the artsy and often pointless visuals ",
 "when ` science fiction ' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience has n't yet had much science ",
 "ambiguous ending ",
 "funniest person ",
 "gay s/m fantasy ",
 "has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans ' saga of hollywood excess ",
 "misguided ",
 "an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera ",
 "dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . ",
 "excited that it has n't gone straight to video ",
 "relatively nothing happens ",
 "adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . ",
 "... a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . ",
 "a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity ",
 "wide-awake all the way ",
 "one-of-a-kind work ",
 "resist his pleas to spare wildlife and ",
 "it plainly has no business going ",
 "the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt ",
 "admirable rigor ",
 "'s too harsh ",
 "a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message ",
 "clearly evident poverty and hardship ",
 "trouble every day is a success in some sense ",
 "are sometimes inexpressive ",
 "on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid ",
 "so it 's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking ",
 "the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . ",
 "boldly stroked , luridly colored , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain . ",
 "a cruel story ",
 "any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships ",
 "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 ",
 "hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ",
 "an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism ",
 "good spirits ",
 "biologically ",
 "that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel ",
 "classic theater piece ",
 "has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) ",
 "notice the 129-minute running time ",
 "well-made ",
 "of the darkest variety ",
 "give a second look ",
 "... plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director ca n't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . ",
 "too long has ignored ",
 "vulgar dialogue and ",
 ", `` orange county '' is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . ",
 "wasting away inside unnecessary films ",
 "often-hilarious farce ",
 "what results is the best performance from either in years ",
 "uneven performances ",
 "crowdpleaser ",
 "enough flourishes and freak-outs ",
 "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 . ",
 "of empathy ",
 "the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- ",
 "about full frontal ",
 "filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders ",
 "have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling ",
 "in a shabby script ",
 "last-minute ",
 "washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell ",
 "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 . ",
 "in the middle of hopeful ",
 "an alluring backdrop ",
 "so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it ",
 "while the highly predictable narrative falls short ",
 "whom the ",
 "artwork ",
 "makes oliver far more interesting ",
 "watchable ",
 "that it does n't give a damn ",
 "'s like dying and going to celluloid heaven ",
 "be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing ",
 "is born to play shaggy ! ",
 "unimpressively fussy ",
 "a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ",
 "brought off with considerable wit ",
 "most impressive ",
 "fits the bill ",
 "'s just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull ",
 "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 . ",
 "more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex ",
 "this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",
 "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\u00e9 . ",
 "is ( cattaneo ) sophomore slump ",
 "that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue ",
 "may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . '' ",
 "unlike ( scorsese 's mean streets ) , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . ",
 "as the treat of the title ",
 "is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country ",
 "the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film ",
 "to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year ",
 "the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , ",
 "articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ",
 "between sullivan and his son ",
 "immature provocations ",
 "in manipulation and mayhem ",
 "a serious movie with serious ideas ",
 "nothing new to see ",
 "great piece ",
 "meets his future wife ",
 "witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",
 "fascinating and ",
 "trite and overused ",
 "looks good ",
 ", spicy footnote ",
 "some strong supporting players ",
 "hopkins ) does n't so much phone in his performance as fax it . ",
 "wo n't sit still for a sociology lesson ",
 "this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . ",
 "energetic and sweetly whimsical ",
 "strip it of all its excess debris , ",
 "a strong directorial stamp ",
 "a dull , dumb and derivative horror film ",
 ", heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear ",
 "mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ",
 "a work of extraordinary journalism ",
 "while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie 's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he 's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . ",
 "'re in for a painful ride . ",
 "favor of an altogether darker side ",
 "that he 's the best brush in the business ",
 "common sense ",
 "feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic ",
 "is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve ",
 "pure ",
 "is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors ",
 "an honest attempt to get at something ",
 "the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film ",
 "of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface ",
 "with a chase to end all chases ",
 "veers like a drunken driver ",
 "lets the pictures do the punching ",
 "the talented cast ",
 "well-intentioned , ",
 "is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . ",
 "little more than routine ",
 "less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series ",
 "ferocity and thoughtfulness ",
 "the story really has no place to go since simone is not real -- ",
 "runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches ",
 "it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . ",
 "idol 's ",
 "ill-advised and ",
 "... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . ",
 "is remembering ",
 "maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another ",
 "a simple `` goddammit ",
 "is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis bu\u00f1uel film without the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius ",
 "have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart ",
 "that reaches across time and distance ",
 ", composed delivery ",
 "in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm ",
 "a crowd-pleaser , but then , so ",
 "edward burns ' best film ",
 "fills the time with drama , romance , tragedy , bravery , political intrigue , partisans and sabotage ",
 "is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music ",
 "( assayas ' ) homage to the gallic ` tradition of quality ",
 "no such thing is hartley 's least accessible screed yet . ",
 "grow into a movie career ",
 "ingenious fun ",
 "to hit all of its marks ",
 "the two and ",
 ", wide-smiling reception ",
 "never having seen the first two films in the series , i ca n'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 ",
 "liar ",
 "undoubtedly ",
 "at their noble endeavor ",
 "miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . ",
 "the most brilliant work ",
 "this method almost never fails him , and ",
 "as subtle and as enigmatic ",
 "cyndi lauper ",
 "her best ",
 "instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games ",
 "is highly pleasurable ",
 "is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut ",
 "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 ",
 "acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography ",
 "strong directorial stamp ",
 "strong and convincing ",
 "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 ",
 "is n't much better . ",
 "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , ",
 "it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . ",
 "are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis ",
 "a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities ",
 "exceedingly ",
 "just brilliant in this ",
 "pays earnest homage to turntablists and ",
 "the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned ",
 "eyes ",
 "off the page , and for the memorable character creations ",
 "is a pretty decent little documentary ",
 "a sharp script ",
 "is difficult to connect with on any deeper level ",
 "charming but slight ",
 "'s a scorcher . ",
 "most amazing ",
 "a more balanced or fair portrayal ",
 "the wonderfully lush morvern callar ",
 "stress ` dumb . ",
 "entirely humorless ",
 "makes it a comic book with soul ",
 "enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins ",
 "tartakovsky 's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but ",
 "makes two hours feel like four . ",
 "the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action ",
 "should share screenwriting credit ",
 "enjoyed barbershop ",
 "romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present hollywood program . ",
 "the movie has no idea of it is serious ",
 "of the greatest date movies in years ",
 ", the movie is better than you might think . ",
 "me realize that we really have n't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since ... well ... since last week 's reign of fire ",
 "even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy ",
 "rushed , ",
 "energy , intelligence and verve ",
 "one-of-a-kind tour de force ",
 "know it would n't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway ",
 "is , quite pointedly , ",
 "crisp framing , edgy camera work , ",
 "skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears ",
 "the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm ",
 "damn fine ",
 "a few nice twists in a standard plot ",
 "mesmerizing cinematic poem ",
 "a low-key , organic way ",
 ", it 's a pale imitation . ",
 "got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions ",
 "to duck the very issues it raises ",
 "a reasonably good time with the salton sea ",
 "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 ",
 "... contains very few laughs and even less surprises . ",
 "the film did n't convince me that calvin jr. 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago 's south side . ",
 "anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . ",
 "to camouflage how bad his movie is ",
 "of whimsy ",
 "has a genuine dramatic impact ",
 "cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and ",
 "we hate ( madonna ) within the film 's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground ",
 "nervous ",
 "replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks ",
 "to give it a marginal thumbs up ",
 "are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence ",
 "unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . ",
 "demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken ",
 "waking coma ",
 "katz 's documentary does n't have much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it . ",
 "may not have the highest production values you 've ever seen ",
 "this is a children 's film in the truest sense . ",
 "about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man ",
 ", it 's mission accomplished ",
 "it 's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . ",
 "surgeon mends ",
 "he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ",
 "played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman ca n't save it . ",
 "this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . ",
 "that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful ",
 "conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny ",
 "it 's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars ",
 "certainly not without merit ",
 "once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie ",
 "spirited ",
 "the cast is impressive ",
 ", salvation and good intentions ",
 "an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily ",
 "do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . ",
 "sour ",
 "the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , is n't really one of resources . ",
 "... the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",
 "'' is entertaining . ",
 "fondly remembered as roman coppola 's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about ",
 "... 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 . '' ",
 "it 's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . ",
 "a calm , self-assured portrait ",
 "the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , ",
 "'ve completely ",
 "the film has a terrific look ",
 "that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries ",
 "'s still terrible ! ",
 "marinated in clich\u00e9s and mawkish dialogue ",
 "the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just ",
 "`` brown sugar '' admirably aspires to be more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film . ",
 "target practice ",
 "ability to think ",
 "did n't mean much to me ",
 "... the plot weaves us into a complex web . ",
 "to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience 's intelligence ",
 "nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through ",
 "is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . ",
 "artistes ",
 "curiously stylized ",
 "half the excitement of balto , ",
 "even when he 's not at his most critically insightful ",
 "this fast-paced ",
 "it was a guilty pleasure ",
 "a wannabe comedy ",
 "hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ",
 "are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it ",
 "long and relentlessly saccharine film ",
 "into sub-tarantino cuteness ",
 "showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches ",
 "accuracy ",
 "the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed ",
 "so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian ",
 "one terrific score ",
 "you expect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it 's also one of the smartest ",
 "even if you do n't know the band or the album 's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and ",
 "hate ",
 "attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago ",
 "the earnest emotional core ",
 "hugely entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves ",
 "sillier , cuter ",
 "the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor ",
 "creative , energetic and original ",
 "reasonably good ",
 "he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle ",
 "a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . ",
 "that 's all that 's going on here . ",
 "the funniest american comedy ",
 "'s a hellish ",
 "conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- to do the subject matter justice ",
 ", as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago . ",
 "plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up ",
 "the strength ",
 "the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . ",
 "how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is ",
 "a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout -- and ",
 "a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- ",
 "with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed ` surprises ",
 "even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits ",
 "the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ",
 "hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",
 "with awe ",
 "should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . ",
 "slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and ",
 "maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension ",
 "is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients ",
 "somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton ",
 "who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows ",
 "less charming than listening to a four-year-old ",
 "england 's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing ",
 "grand fart ",
 "you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides ",
 "retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching ",
 "offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . ",
 "hit ",
 "nothing but boilerplate clich\u00e9s from start ",
 "the resourceful molly ",
 "take you places you have n't been , and also places you have ",
 "as compelling or as believable ",
 "is a film in which the talent is undeniable ",
 "quirky and taken with its own style ",
 "fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . ",
 "wall-to-wall good time ",
 "buoyant delivery ",
 "more experimental in its storytelling ",
 "has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital ",
 "chimes in on the grieving process and ",
 "are spectacular ",
 "the best the contest received ",
 "all its fusty squareness ",
 "reno himself can take credit for most of the movie 's success . ",
 "a movie that harps on media-constructed ` issues ' like whether compromise is the death of self ... this orgasm ( wo n't be an ) exceedingly memorable one for most people . ",
 "'s not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn ",
 "horrendously confusing ",
 "drawing wrenching performances ",
 "lives down to its title . ",
 "a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor ",
 "enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . ",
 ", potent exploration ",
 "as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . ",
 "the q in quirky ",
 "another key contribution ",
 ", badly cobbled look ",
 "mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis ",
 "wonderful , imaginative ",
 "laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh ",
 "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 . ",
 "beautifully shot ",
 "does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ",
 ", ugly , irritating ",
 "the drama that gives added clout to this doc ",
 "its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . ",
 "director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline ",
 "is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , ",
 "as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program ",
 ", even-flowing tone ",
 "disguise the slack complacency of ( godard 's ) vision ",
 "legged freaks ",
 "stay ",
 "unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept ",
 "hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",
 "forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior ",
 "encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . ",
 "have saved this film a world of hurt ",
 "glorious ",
 "featuring reams of flatly ",
 "the whiney characters bugged me ",
 "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 . ",
 "lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . ",
 "fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway ",
 "in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . ",
 "her nomination as best actress even more ",
 "good fun ",
 "involve a dentist drill ",
 "even better ",
 "tens ",
 "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 . ",
 "incredibly captivating and insanely funny ",
 "the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` clockstoppers ",
 "to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel ",
 "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 . ",
 "its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed ` surprises ",
 "structure and ",
 "the true impact ",
 "with guardian hack nick davies ",
 "hard for me ",
 "of a genuine and singular artist ",
 "if you 're up for that sort of thing ",
 "elegant , mannered and teasing . ",
 "sneaks up on you ",
 "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 . ",
 "with daring and verve ",
 "a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long ",
 "terrific screenplay ",
 ", the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . ",
 "guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy ",
 "with fewer gags to break the tedium ",
 "wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy ",
 "carnage and ",
 "sillier , not scarier ",
 "outstanding soundtrack ",
 "we hate ( madonna ) within the film 's first five minutes , and ",
 "hokey ",
 "an action cartoon that 's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd ",
 "will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , ",
 "too bad . ",
 "are just two of the elements that will grab you ",
 "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 ",
 "joyless , ",
 "is wonderful ",
 "makes this a high water mark for this genre . ",
 "swimming is above all about a young woman 's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman 's doubts and yearnings ",
 "of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream ",
 "of his passe ' chopsocky glory ",
 "abandon '' ",
 "but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort ",
 "the leads ) are such a companionable couple ",
 "on tediously about their lives , loves and the art ",
 "starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel ",
 "frustratingly timid and soggy ",
 "truly gorgeous ",
 "accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill ",
 "showtime is n't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again ",
 "thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world dichotomy that ( jaglom ) pursued with such enervating determination in venice/venice . ",
 "distract ",
 "opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it ",
 "witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . ",
 "'s no real sense of suspense ",
 "a risky venture that never quite goes where you expect and often surprises you with unexpected comedy ",
 ", and better ",
 "makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly ",
 "like peace ",
 "most severe ",
 "it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms. ambrose ",
 "with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard ",
 "borrows from other movies ",
 "visually stunning ",
 "a terrible movie , just ",
 "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 . ",
 "leaden and ",
 "with an action movie that actually has a brain ",
 "every shot enhances the excellent performances ",
 "even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts ",
 "offers a guilt-free trip ",
 "... a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job ",
 "with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett 's familiar quotations ",
 "will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",
 "the film just might turn on many people to opera , in general ",
 "a listless climb ",
 "that puts another notch ",
 "old ",
 "that satisfies ",
 "its delivery is a complete mess ",
 "running off ",
 "seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material ",
 "their quirky inner selves ",
 "the sensational ",
 "juicy role ",
 "of the austin powers films ",
 "with few respites ",
 "what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . ",
 "high-octane jolts ",
 "the ensemble has something fascinating to do ",
 "slap her ",
 "the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy ",
 "it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . ",
 "odd and ",
 "delightful , if minor , pastry ",
 "in remembrance ",
 "throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . ",
 "disease-of-the-week ",
 "dumb fart ",
 "( ",
 "substantive movie ",
 "is nothing less than a provocative piece of work ",
 "acts like a doofus ",
 "a part of its fun ",
 ", this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . ",
 "of ` laugh therapy ' ",
 "toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater ",
 "sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and ",
 "joyous documentary ",
 "an exhilarating experience . ",
 "slow , predictable ",
 "epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . ",
 "is a diverting -- if predictable -- adventure suitable for a matinee , ",
 "loses himself to the film 's circular structure ",
 "rises above the level of a telanovela . ",
 "flirts with propaganda ",
 "the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother ",
 "'s no place for this story to go but down ",
 "which is often preachy and poorly acted ",
 "fulfill ",
 "fully formed and ",
 "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , ",
 "insightful moments . ",
 "am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display ",
 "sheerly cinematic appeal ",
 "fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , can not overcome blah characters . ",
 "through the gloomy film noir veil ",
 "is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . ",
 "see this piece of crap again ",
 "purposeless ",
 "a charmer from belgium ",
 "sort of amazing ",
 "'s always fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work . ",
 "contentious configurations ",
 "worth catching for griffiths ' warm and winning central performance ",
 "the leanest and meanest ",
 "of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable ",
 "two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up ",
 "symbolic examination ",
 "really has no place to go since simone is not real ",
 "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 . ",
 "salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation ",
 "maelstrom is strange and compelling ",
 "idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise ",
 "feels universal ",
 "its director could ever have dreamed ",
 "bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority ",
 "pauly shore awful ",
 ", dopey old ",
 "shows crushingly little curiosity about ",
 "masterfully calibrated psychological thriller ",
 "welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees ",
 "too cynical ",
 "its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences ",
 "a nationwide blight ",
 "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 . ",
 "is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling ",
 "plenty of nudity ",
 "sabotaged ",
 "is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama ",
 "this gentle comedy ",
 "as beautiful ",
 "excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . ",
 "'ll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . ",
 "undeniably intriguing ",
 "the whole enterprise ",
 "many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel ",
 "you 'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police . ",
 "map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own ",
 "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 . ",
 "skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics ",
 "already obscure ",
 "lisa rinzler 's cinematography may be lovely , ",
 "many pointless ",
 "largely unfunny ",
 "rendered tedious by avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest ",
 "if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad ",
 "honest , sensitive story ",
 "moving and weighty ",
 "a compelling french psychological drama ",
 "delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle ",
 "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 . ",
 "short and sweet ",
 "were worried ",
 "the minds and hearts ",
 "it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans ",
 "than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes ",
 "than losers ",
 "appealing leads ",
 "big , tender hug ",
 "for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student 's self-esteem ",
 "anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",
 "'s not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . ",
 "has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne . ' ",
 "a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy french grandfather . ",
 "the film buzz and whir ",
 "show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",
 "lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year ",
 "to better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and i wo n't be sitting through this one again ... that in itself is commentary enough ",
 "very bad scouse accents ",
 "precious and finely cut diamond ",
 "'s that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . ",
 "for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors ",
 "his films so memorable ",
 "the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : ",
 "nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life 's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced ",
 "manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust . ",
 "embraced ",
 "a bad , bad , bad movie ",
 "very stilted in its dialogue ",
 "alternately fascinating and frustrating ",
 "wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare ",
 "can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . ",
 "might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill ",
 "a smart , nuanced look at de sade ",
 "the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers ",
 "a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix ",
 "the best didacticism ",
 "angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",
 "delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households ",
 "undone by a sloppy script ",
 "larger than life ",
 "hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage ",
 "takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers ",
 "to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography ",
 "an immensely entertaining look ",
 "how both evolve ",
 "loveable ",
 "festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . ",
 "a remarkable piece of filmmaking ",
 "great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help ",
 "the high standards of performance ",
 "balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy ",
 "strangely sinister happy ending ",
 "a sports extravaganza ",
 "the only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles -- several of them . ",
 "movie-star intensity ",
 "could n't stand to hear ",
 "at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value ",
 "transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories ",
 "innovative ' and ` realistic ' ",
 "be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . ",
 "exquisite trappings ",
 "barbershop '' is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",
 "laudable ",
 "otherwise comic ",
 "that ca n't get sufficient distance from leroy 's ",
 "a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes ",
 "certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories ",
 "a study in schoolgirl obsession ",
 "its body humor and reinforcement of stereotypes ",
 "utterly pointless ",
 "would be me : fighting off the urge to doze ",
 "tender hug ",
 "unabashed sweetness ",
 "a freshness and modesty ",
 "performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks ",
 "joyless ",
 "manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",
 "style and mystification ",
 "sappiness ",
 "feeling to it , but like the 1920 's , the trip there is a great deal of fun . ",
 "as blasphemous and nonsensical ",
 "with an astoundingly rich film ",
 "'s a heaven for bad movies ",
 ", it 's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . ",
 "that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge ",
 ", a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",
 "a predictable outcome and a screenplay ",
 "viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving ",
 "... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . ",
 "'s too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span ",
 "realism , crisp storytelling and radiant ",
 "he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything ",
 "a shock-you-into-laughter intensity ",
 "sacrifices its promise ",
 "of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either ",
 "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 . ",
 "that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' ",
 "has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . ",
 "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 do n't come off ",
 "the most complex , generous and subversive artworks ",
 "b movies ",
 "a solid and refined piece ",
 "about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl ",
 "no new friends ",
 "actually pulling it off ",
 "how sandler is losing his touch ",
 "a little old-fashioned storytelling ",
 "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 . ",
 "great cinema can really do ",
 "is one summer film that satisfies ",
 "misses the mark ",
 "jones and snipes are enthralling ",
 "more plot ",
 "movie version ",
 "possibly the sturdiest example yet ",
 "fake ",
 "loose , poorly structured film ",
 "a much better documentary ",
 "proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . ",
 "memories and one fantastic visual trope ",
 "stale and clich\u00e9d to a fault ",
 "... while dark water is n't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",
 "is nonjudgmental , and ",
 "savory and ",
 "turn the legendary wit 's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum ",
 "improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor ",
 "surprisingly juvenile ",
 "road to perdition does display greatness , and ",
 "that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world ",
 "the broiling sun ",
 "it 's not entirely memorable ",
 "is so self-pitying ",
 "the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster ",
 "touched by the film 's conviction ",
 "its performances ",
 "of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ",
 ", uneventful ",
 "tries the viewer 's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy ",
 "seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title ... amounts to surprisingly little ",
 "like bad cinema ",
 "this engaging mix ",
 "'s a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but ",
 "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 . ",
 "thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film ",
 "its premise is smart ",
 "lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy ",
 "'s a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes ... finally seem so impersonal or even shallow ",
 "great over-the-top moviemaking if you 're in a slap-happy mood . ",
 "a rich and full life ",
 "noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching ",
 "pass this stinker ",
 "formula mercilessly ",
 ", nothing good can happen ",
 "like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie does n't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome ",
 "cold , gray , antiseptic and ",
 "spirit is a visual treat , and ",
 "features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ",
 "fragmented ",
 ", and of telling a fascinating character 's story ",
 "will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll ",
 "sink this ` sub ' ",
 "takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about ",
 "holds the film ",
 "intense experience ",
 "add up to a satisfying crime drama ",
 "refreshing and ",
 "spirited film ",
 "it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . ",
 "... gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life 's ultimate losers . ",
 "its usual worst ",
 "with its unbelievable na\u00efvet\u00e9 and arbitrary flashbacks ",
 "of comedic bliss ",
 "the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it 's really well directed ",
 "colors the picture in some evocative shades . ",
 "fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines ",
 "'ve a taste for the quirky ",
 "familiar and insufficiently cathartic ",
 "its splendor ",
 "awfully deadly ",
 "watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination ",
 "take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . ",
 "this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo ",
 "a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy ",
 "especially clever ",
 "excels ",
 "strokes the eyeballs ",
 "that storytelling has value can not be denied . ",
 "is clever and funny ",
 "moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say ",
 "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 ",
 "the jokes are flat ",
 "about kicking undead *** ",
 "stereotypes in good fun ",
 "content and narrative strength ",
 "most good-hearted yet sensual ",
 ", dramatically satisfying heroine ",
 "dumb gags , anatomical humor ",
 "make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom ",
 "decisive ",
 "one it follows into melodrama and silliness ",
 "leave you cold ",
 "is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . ",
 "is more timely now than ever . ",
 "the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen ",
 "stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions ",
 "the kind of movie that 's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low ",
 "not only to his craft , but to his legend ",
 "beautiful , angry and sad , ",
 "pleasant enough -- ",
 "an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type ",
 "very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . ",
 "of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film ",
 "so unsympathetic ",
 "to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house ",
 "water torture seem appealing ",
 "that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it ",
 "skilfully ",
 "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 ",
 "masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . ",
 "a great performance and ",
 "are worse ",
 "'s nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour ",
 "the exuberant openness ",
 "mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face ",
 "it gives devastating testimony to both people 's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . ",
 "opportunists ",
 "neighborhood ",
 "i liked the movie , ",
 "either 11 times too many or else ",
 "does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . ",
 "a gripping documentary that ",
 "the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ",
 "seemingly sincere personal reflection ",
 "terribly episodic ",
 "that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about ",
 "implied in the title pok\u00e9mon 4ever is terrifying ",
 "dreary and overwrought ",
 "engaging , wide-eyed actress ",
 "becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if ",
 "is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another ",
 "passionate enthusiasms ",
 "that has made tucker a star ",
 "been shot ",
 "`` orange county '' is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . ",
 "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 ",
 "it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian ",
 "in getting under the skin of her characters ",
 "puts an exclamation point on the fact ",
 "replete with the pubescent scandalous ",
 "has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making ",
 "filmed directly from a television monitor ",
 "genuine mind-bender . ",
 "thoughtless ",
 "'s one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen ",
 "what great cinema can really do ",
 "an enthusiastic charm ",
 "though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . ",
 "descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured ",
 "accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc. . ",
 "bouquet gives a performance that is masterly . ",
 "both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting ",
 "sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",
 "... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ",
 "thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film ",
 "a pointed , often tender , examination ",
 "all the filmmakers need to do ",
 "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 ",
 "sequel-for-the-sake ",
 "ear-pleasing songs ",
 "is a riveting , brisk delight . ",
 "executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , ",
 "( and funnier ",
 "then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action ... ",
 "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 ",
 "could n't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron ",
 "a sweet and modest and ",
 "a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life ",
 "is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . ",
 "modestly surprising ",
 "... the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning . ",
 "fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs ",
 "surprisingly powerful and universal ",
 "'s most memorable about circuit ",
 "the film works in spite of it ",
 "this ludicrous film ",
 ", unnecessary ",
 "10 ",
 "this sensuous and spirited tale ",
 "overused cocktail ",
 "waiting for frida to just die already ",
 "of overwhelming waste ",
 "a cinematic car wreck , ",
 "ruthlessly pained ",
 "often shocking but ultimately worthwhile ",
 "overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael 's evolution . ",
 "a cut-and-paste ",
 "heart-warming ",
 "in a poorly ",
 "the ya-ya sisterhood ",
 "which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy ",
 "'s absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan ",
 "contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen ",
 "loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . ",
 "too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary ",
 "of pleasure or sensuality ",
 "impeccable sense ",
 "going to be something really good ",
 "that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways ",
 "the survivors ",
 "fascinating stories ",
 "duds ",
 "featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . ",
 "to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture ",
 "including a knockout of a closing line ) ",
 "'ll know a star when you see one . ",
 "it falls far short of poetry , but ",
 "banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad ",
 "the characters ' quirks and foibles never jell into charm ",
 "'s a very tasteful rock and roll movie ",
 "more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle ",
 "failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest ",
 "puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ",
 ", at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . ",
 "screwed-up characters ",
 "a tired , talky feel ",
 "showdown ",
 "brims with passion ",
 "wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie ",
 "a defiantly retro chord ",
 "a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation ",
 "beautiful work ",
 "eye-catching ",
 "well-done supernatural thriller ",
 "sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor ",
 "it feels like a glossy rehash . ",
 "subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer ",
 "fine acting ",
 "truly come to care about the main characters ",
 "are more silly than scary ",
 "honest performances and exceptional detail ",
 "e.t. is still a cinematic touchstone . ",
 "miyazaki is one of world cinema 's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . ",
 "a hazy high ",
 ", and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill ",
 "is n't much better ",
 "raises some worthwhile themes ",
 "between dumb fun and just plain dumb ",
 "bad imitation ",
 "the disadvantage of also looking cheap ",
 "the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative ",
 "as a dystopian movie ",
 "makes its point too well ",
 "some cute moments ",
 "sophisticated wit ",
 "style , structure and rhythms ",
 "with its moving story ",
 "leave you speaking in tongues ",
 ", accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . ",
 "anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed ",
 "to just die already ",
 "gentle and ",
 "floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity ",
 "grows up ",
 "cultural elite ",
 "'ll enjoy this movie ",
 "artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson ",
 "that beneath the familiar , funny surface ",
 "entertaining , if ultimately minor , ",
 "horrible . ",
 "'s no good answer to that one . ",
 "cannibal ",
 "ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented ",
 "cinematic appeal ",
 "was kind of terrific once ",
 "bolado credit for good intentions ",
 "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 . ",
 "without being shrill ",
 "wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . ",
 "smart ",
 "how i killed my father compelling ",
 "is genial but never inspired , and little ",
 "inadvertently sidesplitting it ",
 "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 ",
 "that does n't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them ",
 "urbane sweetness ",
 "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 ",
 "to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal ",
 "after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults ",
 "charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal ",
 "enjoyed the thrill of the chill ",
 "a convincing one ",
 "small ... ",
 "like the best 60 minutes ",
 "to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success ",
 "the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . ",
 "that tell the best story ",
 "the sad schlock merchant ",
 "film ' in the worst sense of the expression ",
 "spectacularly ",
 "an opportunity missed . ",
 "surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... ",
 "devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity ",
 "a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery ",
 "drowned me in boredom . ",
 "dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting , ",
 "all its agonizing , catch-22 glory ",
 "does n't disappoint . ",
 "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 . ",
 "have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again ",
 "a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure ",
 "low-tech magic realism and , at times , ",
 "eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material ",
 "is beyond playing fair with the audience ",
 "balances real-time rhythms ",
 "lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . ",
 "squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel ",
 "reminds us of our own responsibility ",
 "as deflated as he does ",
 "fighting off the urge to doze ",
 "peace is possible ",
 "even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",
 "surprise us with plot twists ",
 "a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` in space , no one can hear you snore . ",
 "nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks ",
 "the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine ",
 "a lousy one ",
 "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 ",
 "an intoxicating experience . ",
 "'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 ",
 "the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough ",
 "simple and precise ",
 "full-length classic ",
 "steers clear of the sensational and ",
 "riveted to our seats ",
 "good-naturedly ",
 "it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers ",
 "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 . ",
 "gorgeousness . ",
 "the filling ",
 "reality tv obsession ",
 "if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . ",
 "mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",
 "the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . ",
 "have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one ",
 "'s yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix ",
 "eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema 's directorial giants . ",
 "of a very lively dream ",
 "nary a glimmer of self-knowledge ",
 "is an interesting movie ! ",
 "a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix 's ",
 "gets harder and harder to understand her choices ",
 "will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic ",
 "new benchmark ",
 "lead actress ga\u00ef , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . ",
 "is well worthwhile ",
 "grin ",
 "is flawed ",
 "silver bullets for director neil marshall 's intense freight ",
 "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 ",
 "a bland , surfacey way that does n't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people ",
 "incredible subtlety and acumen ",
 "i 'll go out on a limb . ",
 "sleekness ",
 "a low-rent retread of the alien ",
 ", entertaining thriller ",
 "with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the clich\u00e9-riddled genre can offer ",
 "simple tale ",
 "a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope ",
 "poetic tragedy ",
 "not constant bloodshed ",
 "check your brain at the door ",
 "the modern master ",
 "out of control ",
 "inconsistencies ",
 "pseudo-intellectual kid ",
 "hastily and ",
 "figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that ",
 "inter-species ",
 "when the movie ended so damned soon ",
 "momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable ",
 "the action as gripping ",
 "smart-aleck movie ",
 "is even worse ",
 "just is n't very funny . ",
 "`` serving sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff ",
 "settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . ",
 "exceedingly rare films ",
 "naipaul , a juicy writer ",
 "been made with an enormous amount of affection ",
 "( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there 's something vital about the movie . ",
 "the utter cuteness ",
 "provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . ",
 ", you 're too interested to care . ",
 "is quite a vision . ",
 "gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through ",
 "take it ",
 "proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",
 "a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves ",
 "and unabashed sweetness ",
 "enriched ",
 "mostly believable , ",
 "child acting ",
 "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 ",
 "funny yet ",
 "showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase ",
 "a warmth that is n't faked ",
 "true love ",
 "sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ",
 "trying to laugh at how bad ",
 "to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie ",
 "the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ",
 "swiftly ",
 "there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . ",
 "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 ",
 "amusing , sad and reflective ",
 "not-nearly ",
 "sure to raise audience 's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll ",
 "set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine ",
 "for a few comic turns ",
 "surprisingly well ",
 "exceeding expectations ",
 "strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild . ",
 "injects freshness and spirit ",
 "moronic ",
 "wit and compassion ",
 "drags the film ",
 "has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest ",
 "`` abandon '' will leave you wanting to abandon the theater . ",
 "but it 's just too too much ",
 "anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take ",
 "acted offbeat thriller ",
 "is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . ",
 "fuss or noise ",
 "that it goes nowhere ",
 "michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , ",
 "uneven performances and a spotty script ",
 "sedate ",
 "is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it . ",
 "from the incongruous but chemically ",
 "may put off insiders and outsiders alike . ",
 "is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences ",
 "this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . ",
 ", long-suffering but cruel ",
 "if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it 's informative and breathtakingly spectacular ",
 "for all audiences ",
 "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 . ",
 "an unholy mess , ",
 ", 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 . ",
 "is itself intacto 's luckiest stroke ",
 "recommend `` never again ",
 "a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience ",
 "the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . ",
 "painfully slow ",
 "this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . ",
 "that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ",
 "working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli ",
 "mr. deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . ",
 "the movie is amateurish ",
 "funniest moments ",
 "good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace ",
 "watching `` ending '' is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale . ",
 "too mushy ",
 "while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter ",
 "'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 . ",
 "borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism ",
 "a waste of fearless purity ",
 "higher level ",
 "the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody . ",
 "a terrible movie ",
 "apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . ",
 "absorbs all manner of lame entertainment ",
 "it 's his strongest performance since the doors ",
 "'s a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones ",
 "becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair ",
 "not good enough ",
 "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 ",
 "some movies suck you in despite their flaws , ",
 "some fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . ",
 "the skills of a calculus major at m.i.t. ",
 "is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . ",
 "has little clue ",
 "noble endeavor ",
 "`` bad '' is the operative word for `` bad company , '' and i do n't mean that in a good way . ",
 "war ",
 "terrible , banal dialogue ; ",
 "it reveals ",
 "outstanding thrillers ",
 "sensuous and ",
 "flat acting ",
 "achingly sad ",
 "graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies ",
 "told , with superb performances throughout ",
 "a trove of delights ",
 "weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title ",
 "that is often quite rich and exciting ",
 "in a way that 's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span ",
 "a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz ",
 "is sandler running on empty , repeating what he 's already done way too often ",
 "creatively stillborn ",
 "all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",
 "love this ",
 "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 ",
 "the holocaust ",
 "grim future ",
 "provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . ",
 "that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers ",
 "strikes a potent chemistry with molina ",
 "overwhelmed by its lack of purpose ",
 "clich\u00e9-laden screenplay ",
 "what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . ",
 "the superficial tensions ",
 "fulfilling ",
 "the six-time winner ",
 "sounds like horrible poetry . ",
 "dimming ",
 "adam sandler ",
 "it 's definitely a step in the right direction . ",
 "of the long list of renegade-cop tales ",
 "both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times ",
 "last-place basketball ",
 ", graceless , hackneyed ",
 "gadgets ",
 "` stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall 's intense freight train of a film . ' ",
 "blandness ",
 "immersed ",
 "astoundingly rich film ",
 "few seconds ",
 "-- thoughtfully written ",
 "'s supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ",
 "comatose ballerinas ",
 "noble end ",
 "a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , ",
 "a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman 's similarly updated 1970 british production . ",
 "the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made ( eyre 's ) first film something of a sleeper success ",
 "keep you wide awake and ",
 "grade-grubbers ",
 "put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today ",
 "display greatness ",
 "eight legged freaks wo n't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love ... ",
 "the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clich\u00e9s the filmmakers could dredge up ",
 "and mainly unfunny ",
 "quirky comedy ",
 "nothing better to do with 94 minutes ",
 "the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . ",
 "babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy ",
 "should see it as soon as possible ",
 "there are laughs aplenty , and ",
 "going at a rapid pace , occasionally ",
 "of being a good documentarian ",
 "is not only a pianist , but a good human being ",
 ", danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . ",
 "this stuck pig ",
 "a total lack of empathy ",
 "try to avoid ",
 "elicits strong performances from his cast ",
 "is superficial ",
 "touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and ",
 "to document all this emotional misery ",
 "a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project ",
 "stifles creativity ",
 "the impressive stagings of hardware ",
 "is one of the greatest date movies in years . ",
 "`` interview '' loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",
 "michael moore 's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society ? ' ",
 "one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? ",
 "`` the good girl '' a film worth watching ",
 "to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience ",
 "freshly ",
 "( creates ) the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . ",
 "seedy clash ",
 "the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what 's worse , routine ",
 "meshes in this elegant entertainment ",
 "a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride ",
 "this is n't worth sitting through ",
 "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 ",
 "pretty funny ",
 "deceptively simple , ",
 "huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that does n't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people ",
 "the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself ",
 ", the movie is powerful and provocative . ",
 "brainless ",
 "remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing ",
 "yawn-provoking ",
 "a greater knowledge ",
 "( davis ) wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters ",
 "does n't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events ",
 "memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and ",
 ", about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . ",
 "of paint-by-number romantic comedies ",
 "an inept , tedious spoof of '70s ",
 "higher ",
 "that are more silly than scary ",
 "is intriguing , provocative stuff ",
 "smart and taut . ",
 "mysterious , ",
 "could be so flabby ",
 "because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . ",
 "career - kids = misery ) ",
 "of rich detail condensed ",
 "ignorant ",
 "forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action ",
 "descends into such message-mongering moralism ",
 "pretty good little movie . ",
 "never comes together as a coherent whole . ",
 "trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge ",
 "heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . ",
 "allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . ",
 "sets out to entertain and ",
 "seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation ",
 "... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . ",
 "'s the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . ",
 "summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle ",
 "scare the pants ",
 "received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film ",
 "is still good fun . ",
 "all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new ",
 "schmucks ",
 "does his sly , intricate magic ",
 "is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition ",
 "the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while ",
 "understand everyone 's point of view ",
 "pleasant tale ",
 "was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo ",
 "told with sharp ears and eyes ",
 "is n't one true ` chan moment ' . ",
 "is very difficult ",
 "the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , ",
 "goal ",
 "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 . ",
 "takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance ",
 "watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves ",
 "are served with a hack script . ",
 "'re left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity ",
 "avid ",
 "about hatred ",
 "clumsiness ",
 "the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories ",
 "had their hearts in the right place ",
 "found his groove ",
 "a handful of virtuosic set pieces ",
 "described as sci-fi generic ",
 "makes a wonderful subject for the camera . ",
 "sordid and disgusting ",
 "as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort ",
 "the sheer dumbness ",
 "one of those so-so films that could have been much better ",
 "the worst titles in recent cinematic history ",
 "the death ",
 "for once ",
 ", eight crazy nights is a total misfire . ",
 "entirely stale ",
 "'re more likely to enjoy on a computer ",
 "it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings ",
 "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 ",
 "churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action ",
 "too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece ",
 "build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman ",
 "all comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . ",
 "a funny , triumphant , and ",
 "dumb and derivative horror ",
 "disconnects every 10 seconds ",
 "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 . ",
 "uncompromising artists trying to create something original ",
 "cliched ",
 "an athlete ",
 "mannered ",
 ", touching , smart and complicated ",
 "flimsy flicks ",
 "skillfully assembled , highly polished ",
 "significantly better than its 2002 children 's - movie competition . ",
 "too-frosty exterior ",
 "is hugely overwritten ",
 "one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible ",
 "a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song ",
 "is n't quite one of the worst movies of the year ",
 "while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , ",
 "one-sidedness ",
 "aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",
 "are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching ",
 "is the director 's talent ",
 "gets vivid performances from her cast and ",
 "patriotic ",
 "grows on you -- like a rash . ",
 "spectacular belly flops ",
 "great help from kevin kline ",
 "the universal theme ",
 "behind cutesy film references ",
 "fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references ",
 "bad taste ",
 "bothered to construct a real story this time ",
 "can truly be ",
 "fun or energy ",
 "that satisfies , as comfort food often can ",
 "flower-power liberation ",
 "veers ",
 ", paralyzed ",
 "does little here ",
 ", poignant and leavened ",
 "difficult and ",
 "that is even lazier and far less enjoyable . ",
 "forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today ",
 "i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! ",
 "ends so horrendously confusing ",
 "like having a real film of nijinsky ",
 "schlocky creature ",
 "the recording sessions are intriguing , and ",
 "set out to lampoon , anyway ",
 "it 's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clich\u00e9s . ",
 "unspeakably , unbearably dull ",
 "as a real movie ",
 "tested by bad luck and their own immaturity ",
 "an elegant and sly deadpan ",
 "bring their characters to life ",
 "manages to incorporate both the horror ",
 "is a mess from start to finish . ",
 "what i liked about it ",
 "dumb comedy ",
 "brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade ",
 "to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires ",
 "where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug ",
 "a kind of ghandi gone bad ",
 "deep or ",
 "in addition to being very funny ",
 "the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched ",
 "fans of plympton 's shorts may marginally enjoy the film ",
 "a beautifully sung holiday carol ",
 "the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings ",
 "a delightful romantic comedy with plenty ",
 "had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost ",
 "an honestly nice little film ",
 "worthless film ",
 "such superficial treatment ",
 "my only complaint ",
 "its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm ",
 "'s packed with just as much intelligence as action ",
 "high drama , ",
 "on their parents ' anguish ",
 "this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism ",
 "an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids ",
 "excellent 90-minute film ",
 "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 ",
 "is smart , not cloying . ",
 "pacino is the best he 's been in years ",
 "a poignant comedy that offers food for ",
 "going wrong ",
 "there 's no art here ",
 "delightful ",
 "formuliac ",
 "`` crazy '' ",
 "more fascinating ",
 "needlessly poor quality ",
 "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year 's `` rollerball ",
 "is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film ",
 "as tiresome as 9 seconds ",
 "that is wickedly fun to watch ",
 "barely defensible sexual violence ",
 "heartwarming ",
 "a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man ",
 "perversely ",
 "original nor terribly funny ",
 "surrounding us ",
 "well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . ",
 "it 's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking ",
 "the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",
 "touching as the son 's room ",
 "made at least one damn fine horror movie ",
 "play their roles with vibrant charm ",
 "with miscalculations ",
 "schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie ",
 "is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins ",
 "'m left slightly disappointed that it did n't . ",
 "coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker ",
 "agonizing ",
 "a subtle and richly internalized performance ",
 "downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . ",
 "fine , focused piece ",
 "work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns ",
 "denying ",
 ", like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with ",
 "stale copy ",
 "begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot ",
 "lacks the charisma and ability ",
 "too slow ",
 "it 's mission accomplished ",
 "mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos ",
 "the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . ",
 "some people march to the beat of a different drum ",
 "appreciation ",
 "human impulses that grew hideously twisted ",
 "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 . ",
 "worthwhile themes ",
 "of hype ",
 "great to look at , and funny ",
 "congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! ",
 ", love . ",
 "is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously ",
 "transforms this story about love and culture ",
 "'s never as solid ",
 "be a straightforward bio ",
 "the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud ",
 "a real filmmaker ",
 "disappoint the action ",
 "predominantly amateur ",
 "merit its 103-minute length ",
 "odd enjoyably chewy lump ",
 "pure ",
 "engrossing ",
 "the top japanese animations ",
 "more emotional force than any other recent film ",
 "oral storytelling frozen onto film ",
 "valley of the dolls ",
 "have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries ",
 "i laughed throughout the movie ",
 "been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks ",
 "critically insightful ",
 "stimulating and ",
 "could rent the original and get the same love story and parable ",
 "but the actors make this worth a peek . ",
 "from bland actors ",
 "are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before ",
 "daft by half ... but supremely good natured . ",
 "are fleshed-out enough to build any interest ",
 "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 ' ? ",
 "in a giant pile of elephant feces ",
 ", without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision ",
 "that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one ",
 "a fine effort , ",
 "guy gets girl ",
 "mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance ",
 "has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be ",
 "does n't so much phone in his performance as fax it ",
 "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 . ",
 "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 ",
 "works against itself ",
 "a sharp and quick documentary ",
 "vulgar innuendo ",
 "live in if argento 's hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve ",
 "thriller junk . ",
 "third act miscalculation ",
 "refreshing ",
 "in the long-winded heist comedy ",
 "if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness ",
 "poetic ",
 "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 ",
 "exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk ",
 ", i 'd want something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . ",
 "moving experience ",
 "torture ",
 "a grenade with his teeth ",
 ", this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",
 "'s very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle ",
 "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 ",
 "a fun one ",
 "this picture ",
 "by the time the credits roll across the pat ending ",
 "the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials ",
 "proves to be a compelling ",
 "is ) a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie ",
 "the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure ",
 "'' never cuts corners . ",
 "cares ",
 "both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . ",
 "you snore ",
 "splendid ",
 "emotional edge ",
 "nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale ",
 "likely to find compelling ",
 "are acting horribly ",
 "is workmanlike in the extreme ",
 "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 . ",
 "flawless film , ( wang ) emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . ",
 "rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson 's creek ",
 "to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry ",
 "her feature film ",
 "tells this very compelling tale ",
 "first mistake ",
 "albeit a visually compelling one ",
 "a great cast and ",
 "undeniably gorgeous ",
 "uses its pulpy core conceit ",
 "a distinguished film legacy ",
 "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 . ",
 "sensational denouements ",
 "'s badder than bad ",
 "always the prettiest pictures ",
 "the most original fantasy film ever made ",
 "in the right place ",
 "a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title ... amounts to surprisingly little ",
 "immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do ",
 "fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket ",
 "video-cam footage ",
 "that 's packed with just as much intelligence as action ",
 "a successful one ",
 "all hollywood fantasies ",
 "'s best ",
 "refresh ",
 "mystery devoid ",
 "where a masterpiece should be ",
 "evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream ",
 "nor a clich\u00e9 left unsaid ",
 "inexpressible and drab wannabe ",
 "does n't add anything fresh to the myth ",
 "laughably unconvincing ",
 "improbable ",
 "quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . ",
 "its botches ",
 "more ambitious ",
 "whimper ",
 "ponderous and charmless ",
 "stop-and-start pacing ",
 "that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery ",
 "pretend it 's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away ",
 "of technical skill and rare depth ",
 "the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",
 "a really bad imitation ",
 ", those farts got to my inner nine-year-old ",
 "cinematic tone poem ",
 "about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and ",
 "while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . ",
 "dreamlike ",
 "though its story is only surface deep ",
 "overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm ",
 "beautifully produced ",
 "inventive ",
 "on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy ",
 "return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families ",
 "flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and ",
 "takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints ",
 "a stock plot ",
 ", super troopers suffers because it does n't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . ",
 "than malle 's dud ",
 "classic story ",
 "larry fessenden 's spooky new thriller ",
 "their own immaturity ",
 "made on the cheap ",
 "is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects ",
 "tender and ",
 "robust and scary ",
 "great minds ",
 ", eventually the content is n't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",
 "of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film ",
 "its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary . ",
 "its rough edges ",
 "a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time ",
 "vampire fun ",
 "of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints ",
 "another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke - ",
 "its classical music ",
 "all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost ",
 "will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",
 "bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness ",
 "resorting to camp or parody ",
 "exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . ",
 "in a class by itself ",
 "is a lame kiddie flick ",
 "deeply touching melodrama ",
 "is often very funny ",
 "of laughs ",
 "max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve ",
 "will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story ",
 "be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg 's work ",
 "edge to it . ",
 "this charmer ",
 "once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea is n't funny . ",
 "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 ",
 "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 . ",
 "white 's intermittently wise script ",
 "a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore ",
 "check your pulse . ",
 "devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ",
 "one thing 's for sure -- if george romero had directed this movie , it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . ",
 "blacked out ",
 "a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . ",
 "hollywood too long has ignored ",
 "is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . ",
 "her defiance ",
 "thoughtfulness ",
 "fun and ",
 "only seems to care about the bottom line ",
 "for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . ",
 "are too simplistic to maintain interest ",
 "with enough negatives ",
 "takes you somewhere ",
 "crush each other ",
 "jfk conspiracy nuts ",
 "a very slow , uneventful ",
 "... the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . ",
 "fine ",
 "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 ",
 "a perceptive , good-natured movie . ",
 "squanders as much as it gives out ",
 "jonathan parker 's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . ",
 "well-thought ",
 "alone is worth the price of admission . ",
 "`` 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 ",
 "more overtly silly dialogue ",
 "that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times ",
 "ends or just ca n't tear himself away from the characters ",
 "would force you to give it a millisecond of thought ",
 "this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . ",
 "curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading ",
 "brilliantly ",
 "an epic ",
 "enlightenment ",
 "could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies ",
 "it never lacks in eye-popping visuals ",
 "occasionally interesting ",
 "its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie 's presentation , which is way too stagy . ",
 "of complacency ",
 "through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special ",
 "oblivious ",
 "proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting ",
 "been the ultimate imax trip ",
 "every joke is repeated at least ",
 "hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock 's memorable first interrogation of gosling . ",
 "of new inspiration in it ",
 "that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film ",
 "every faltering half-step ",
 "life , hand gestures , ",
 "extraordinarily rich ",
 "that the answer is as conventional as can be ",
 "more ways ",
 "auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera ... ",
 "cut open a vein ",
 "skilled ",
 "of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one ",
 "the genius ",
 "make you feel like a sucker ",
 "usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona ",
 "fumbles away ",
 "happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? ",
 "the characters sound like real people ",
 "swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",
 "drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) ",
 "` direct-to-video ' release ",
 "watching junk like this ",
 "of things that elevate `` glory '' above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall ",
 "beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . ",
 "appropriate ",
 "around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life ",
 "a supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . ",
 ", there is n't much to it . ",
 "of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence ",
 ", you might soon be looking for a sign . ",
 "of soft-core twaddle ",
 "when it drags ",
 "make it an above-average thriller . ",
 "interesting psychological game ",
 "do n't see the point ",
 "is weak . ",
 "much first-rate ",
 "brings a beguiling freshness ",
 "is wonderful . ",
 "high humidity ",
 "starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie ",
 "has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . ",
 "it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",
 "self-destructiveness ",
 "into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill ",
 "a likable story , ",
 "how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest ",
 "at the expense of character ",
 "anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap clich\u00e9 ",
 "making kahlo 's art a living , breathing part of the movie , ",
 "has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favors to their famous parents . ",
 "of his reserved but existential poignancy ",
 "drags , underscoring the obvious ",
 "filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life ",
 "the relentless gaiety ",
 "hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . ",
 "a black hole ",
 "does n't really know or care about the characters ",
 "disappointing ",
 "at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . ",
 "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 ",
 "is actually ",
 ", it is twice as bestial but half as funny . ",
 "no worse a film ",
 "the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary ",
 "that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived ",
 "the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . ",
 "entirely suspenseful , extremely ",
 "the pianist ( is ) a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . ",
 "it is n't scary . ",
 "the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and ",
 "to present an unflinching look at one man 's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness ",
 "be more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film ",
 "a stiff ",
 "'s not scary in the slightest ",
 "disappointingly ",
 "so meditative and lyrical about babak payami 's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics ",
 "is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",
 "clever , ",
 "mishandled ",
 "cheapen ",
 "richly ",
 "errors ",
 "similarly ill-timed ",
 "a bomb ",
 "it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory ",
 "prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist 's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms ",
 "america 's thirst ",
 "ca n't disguise the fact that it 's inauthentic at its core and that its story just is n't worth telling . ",
 "is definitely a cut above the rest ",
 "finest films ",
 "a true ",
 "with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do ",
 "is to be mesmerised . ",
 "weak claims ",
 "dullard ",
 "do that is really funny ",
 "most deceptively amusing comedies ",
 "it 's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . ",
 "enthusiastically ",
 "it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast ",
 "being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe ",
 "goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling ",
 "a very funny , heartwarming film ",
 ", it does n't work . ",
 "a laugh riot ",
 "fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness ",
 "stupid and ",
 "sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , ( ahola ) has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation . ",
 "the soggy performances ",
 "brave and sweetly ",
 "limply ",
 "absorbing ",
 "that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming ",
 "more revealing , more emotional and more surprising ",
 "flinching ",
 "wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story 's morals ",
 "even less capable trio ",
 "susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up ",
 "a visual style unique and inherent ",
 "in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance ",
 "take on loss and loneliness ",
 "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 . ",
 "surrealistic ",
 "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 . ",
 "the death of self ... this orgasm ( wo n't be an ) ",
 "that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors ",
 "no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2 ",
 "animation back 30 years , ",
 "hyper-realistic images ",
 "spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . ",
 "it ) comes off like a hallmark commercial ",
 "seem so real ",
 "a.e.w. mason 's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks `` the four feathers '' bare ",
 "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 ",
 "the touch is generally light enough and ",
 "bias ",
 "a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed ",
 "are ... impeccable throughout . ",
 "your pulse ever racing ",
 "inimitable scenes ",
 "of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness ",
 "of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim ",
 "poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . ",
 "a sensitive , moving , ",
 "-- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- ",
 "a powerful performance ",
 "draws the audience ",
 "being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience ",
 "the worst movie ",
 "a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind ",
 "workmanlike in the extreme ",
 "is : ` scooby ' do n't ",
 "is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ",
 "a typical bible killer story "
]