winner


, wall-to-wall good time


lovely flakiness


a filmmaker of impressive talent


eloquent , deeply felt


it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with


an extreme action-packed film


understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal


to convince us of that all on their own


most watchable film


that criticizing feels more like commiserating


a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother 's hold over her .


enhances the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary .


compulsively watchable


turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long


a shrewd and effective film


too difficult


independent-community guiding lights


you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did


a smart ,


against all odds


a stable-full of solid performances


a finely written


the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating


astonishingly


, `` far from heaven '' is a masterpiece .


, provocative


a light , yet engrossing piece .


of bubba ho-tep 's clearly evident quality


of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one


essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty .


with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness


a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that


a delightfully dour ,


is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie


an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty


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


has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ...


sustain a reasonable degree of suspense


pummel us with phony imagery or music


that does n't reveal even a hint of artifice


mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos


above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism


this is n't exactly profound cinema , but it 's good-natured and sometimes quite funny .


with a cause


a backstage must-see


has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy


off


-- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising --


losing his touch


is ) a fascinating character , and


best ensemble casts


this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are .


suspense , surprise


characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life


wild-and-woolly


smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be .


the pleasure of his sounds and images


should never , ever ,


, uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd


formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement


entertains not


, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise ,


of this year 's very best pictures


the only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles -- several of them .


tepid and tedious


could easily wait for your pay per view dollar


the best way


also rocks


it 's pauly shore awful .


a fresh , entertaining comedy


well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six .


the relentless gaiety


the film its flaws


the emperor 's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach .


breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers


the gutless direction


nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth .


is a superior horror flick


most genuinely sweet films


dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters


cloying messages


's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay


there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending ,


hampered by taylor 's cartoonish performance and the film 's ill-considered notion that hitler 's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances


a flat script and a low budget


poetry in motion


love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut


painfully


is beginning to feel


the film offers an intriguing what-if premise .


a crowd-pleaser , but then


also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth


like an extreme action-packed film


generally light enough


look at morality , family , and social expectation


hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about


the courage of its convictions


the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay


is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride


, it throws you for a loop .


flashy editing style


of parental failings


much tongue in cheek in the film


with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity


the story plays out slowly ,


worthwhile documentary


is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction


a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature .


into brutally labored and unfunny hokum


diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master


... spiced with humor ( ' i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver 's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around )


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 .


comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow .


, easily substitutable


is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .


this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment .


that and it 's what makes their project so interesting


's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer


is downright doltish and uneventful


decent material


his latest effort ,


deadpan tone


like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining .


viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess .


the dreams of youth


unfortunately , carvey 's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg .


, it 's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss .


embrace small , sweet ` evelyn


admirable quality


a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll


a slight but sweet film .


engaging offbeat touches


's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long


, it offers hope


an especially well-executed television movie


... is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters .


this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully .


funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad ,


a great deal


a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world


faithful portraiture


a well-made and satisfying thriller


frustrating ` tweener '


slap


, it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in .


is a hilarious place to visit


it labors as storytelling .


wow fans


a hoot in a bad-movie way


overlong and


've got something pretty damn close


it might not be 1970s animation ,


a feel-good movie that


who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies


actually hurts to watch .


a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse


contemporary southern adolescence


the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama


a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman 's clothes


gets tiresome


are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence .


nazi politics and aesthetics


a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .


even a must-see


lighting that emphasizes every line and sag


is great


bring on the sequel .


catapulting the artist into her own work


confusing on one level or another


refreshingly clear


's easy to like and always


, builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with


diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused .


instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy


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 .


perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty


fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere


sets out to entertain and


wonderful thing


you wish had been developed with more care


down on their working-class subjects


stale gags


cold , pretentious ,


to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism


one of the best films


much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay


the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming .


to keep our interest


undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references


the screen in frustration


is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about .


is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that 's both charming and well acted .


belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating .


demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop


invited to the party


only are the film 's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny


stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders


for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters


drag on


this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope .


worked wonders


i 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake .


the holes in this film remain agape --


if you 're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix


however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance .


if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging


more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds


remarkably accessible and haunting


too much kid-vid


fessenden continues to do interesting work ,


i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon .


ultimately unpredictable


enjoyed


unemployment


more than she can handle


a spontaneity


be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption


moving and not infrequently breathtaking


it 's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .


a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry .


cautions


with imbecilic mafia


yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable .


will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor


's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it 's started


ivan is a prince of a fellow


has virtually nothing to show


it looks good ,


of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding


the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart


makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here


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


oddly humorous


heady , biting , be-bop


funny in a sick , twisted sort of way .


might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts


sharp as a samurai sword


it 's always fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work .


hits a nerve


it 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense


transcends


than most third-rate horror sequels


does n't work .


in a collectively stellar performance


silly rather than


seen some bad singer-turned actors


a definitive counter-cultural document


paints - of a culture in conflict with itself ,


a fragile framework


plotting and mindless action


a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song


is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage .


you 're an agnostic carnivore


to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal


able to tear their eyes away from the screen


fare with real thematic heft


new york 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief


full of stunning images and effects


savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense .


bad love


but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care .


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 .


this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that 's as entertaining as it is instructive .


the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power


yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ...


made me want to scream


dicaprio 's best performance


for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach


neither original


about the worst thing


out-bad-act the other


easily the most thoughtful fictional examination


cinematic touchstone


fairly weak retooling


just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills .


is n't that funny


it 's a loathsome movie ,


thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes


this film : honest


a haunting ode to humanity


lowly studio hack


the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time


pallid


authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study


lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .


is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .


slaloming through its hackneyed elements


the english call ` too clever by half


certainly ranks as the most original in years .


read ` seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame


ambiguous enough to be engaging and


outstanding


humor , verve and fun


... a guiltless film for nice evening out .


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 .


the comic touch


it won -- and wins still


, you 'd better have a good alternative


climactic setpiece


has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control


as it is instructive


argento


, secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way .


of inept filmmaking


is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories .


exploitative for the art houses and


just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving


labute continues to improve .


all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper 's approach to the material is too upbeat .


pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon


the most poorly staged and lit action


all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons


high-strung


effective in all its aspects


can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '


is an inspirational love story ,


frustrating misfire


's a good yarn-spinner


the great films about movie love


, unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke .


needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance .


the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez


exploitation


upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of ( woo 's ) best work


reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one


ready to go to the u.n. and ask permission for a preemptive strike


designed to fill time ,


conventional thriller


the disappointingly generic nature


an important movie


to make enough into ` an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller '


, awe-inspiring visual poetry


self-centered


soulful nuances


its recycled aspects , implausibility ,


the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and


starting


riveting and surprisingly romantic ride


the right choices


's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory


an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .


unforced , rapid-fire delivery


a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool


every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage


particularly joyless


alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .


the funnier movies


wooden performances


self-promotion ends and


fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .


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 ...


has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care ,


demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken .


most enchanting film


( siegel ) and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie .


agile


cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma


the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode


seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation


from each film


soulful , scathing and


, avarice and damaged dreams


an abyss


wisdom and humor


well worth revisiting as many times


, he has at least one more story to tell : his own .


we did n't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show


adds enough quirky and satirical touches


have viewers guessing just who 's being conned right up to the finale


the best little `` horror '' movie


it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space


this ` we 're - doing-it-for - the-cash ' sequel


bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie .


, secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism .


of scorn


the finest kind


a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours .


, it has a genuine dramatic impact


the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot


the art direction is often exquisite


fun and nimble .


like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover .


's all about anakin ... and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect


caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion


yes , soar .


an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary .


is a few bits funnier than malle 's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of damon runyon crooks


odd movies


can analyze this movie in three words : thumbs friggin ' down .


reach a truly annoying pitch


o matter how much good will the actors generate


offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment


the outstanding thrillers of recent years


dumb down


generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series


barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything


graphic violence


we really have n't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since ... well ... since last week 's reign of fire


is smart and entirely charming


is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it .


a hilarious kenneth branagh


tender and


spirited film


's a dark , gritty story


the slippery slope of dishonesty


an adorably whimsical comedy


it might have been


addictive


swings and jostles


what time offers tsai 's usual style and themes


pleasing


so uninspiring


touching and


genial romance


onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless


charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie .


even at its worst , it 's not half-bad .


it looks good , sonny ,


make a huge action sequence as any director


time bombs and


the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises .


promising work-in-progress


folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either


to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept


does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds


a pale successor


elegantly appointed period drama


captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it


is as difficult for the audience to take as it


my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as ' a perfect family film , ' because it 's about family .


has really found his groove these days .


impressive and highly entertaining celebration


helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome .


interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side


its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary .


cliche


i 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but


like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through


has far more energy


on dave barry 's popular book of the same name


a heartfelt romance


devoid of joy and energy


a rehash of every gangster movie


to the edge of their seats


is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you .


of longing , lasting traces of charlotte 's web of desire and desperation


sealed in a jar


this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their *** off for an hour-and-a-half


to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents


that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness


to great performances


charged music to the ears of cho 's fans .


as a numbingly dull experience


left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism


offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar .


admirable energy ,


milquetoast


a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing


seem heroic deserves a look .


proves a servicable world war ii drama that ca n't totally hide its contrivances


hit


terrific 10th-grade learning tool


sobering , heart-felt drama


enjoyed .


's a sheer unbridled delight in the way


what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking .


its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and


prove more distressing


stuffy , full of itself


flourishes


like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood .


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 .


could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage


was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in


spreads itself too thin


redundancy


good actors , even kingsley ,


uninhibited


is n't much better .


and flat-out farce


to a night in the living room than a night at the movies


yet another genre exercise , gangster no. 1 is as generic as its title .


a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel .


good-natured and


a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent


a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another


happiness


's contrived and predictable


the sexual politics too smug


a movie is more than a movie .


is slightly less successful than the first


sex is one of those films that aims to confuse .


a film of epic scale


with an enormous amount of affection


explosive


is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative .


leaves no southern stereotype unturned


that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times


kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies


communal spirit


's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers do n't make often enough


one-of-a-kind


a lot like a well-made pb & j sandwich :


consigned to the dustbin of history


perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` serving sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff


richly detailed ,


, as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable


is so convinced of its own brilliance


to bring something new into the mix


drop your jaw


of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery


allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today .


howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject .


becomes a testament to faith


an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt


hopeless , unsatisfying muddle


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


's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau .


with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact


for their acting chops , but for their looks


visual and verbal clichés


gore


is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films


it provides a fresh view of an old type


romance-novel


bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy


possible angle


nothing too deep or substantial .


invented to describe exactly how bad it is


were far more entertaining than i had expected


to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best


near virtuosity in its crapulence


at blockbuster


contemporary


so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it


lost the politics and the social observation


comedic


might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc .


a spectacular completion one


screams


at least a few good ideas and


villainous


creepy and dead-on performance


( there 's ) quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin .


the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one


i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old


a fullness


too painfully


best sex comedy


crassly


's a dull girl , that 's all


repeating


barlow


king lear


that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours


coolness


beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly


to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon


still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned .


impacts


takes no apparent joy in making movies


, generosity and diplomacy


fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director 's previous films


been filmed more irresistibly than in ` baran


once again dazzle and delight us


enchanting


will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle


should drop everything and run to ichi .


is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler


grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip 's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery


unsettling prognosis


it 's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it 's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance .


usual whoopee-cushion effort


a collage of clichés and a dim


nauseating


hunk


more entertaining


reality shows -- reality shows for god 's sake !


stirring , funny


is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender


, 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 .


suffered


that a good video game movie is going to show up soon


makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place


their largest-ever historical canvas


video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all .


romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters


feel a nagging sense of deja vu


so interesting


this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand .


feel-good


robert harmon 's less-is-more approach


truly deserving of its oscar nomination


most resonant film since the killer


, scotland , pa would be forgettable if it were n't such a clever adaptation of the bard 's tragic play .


is that rare animal known as ' a perfect family film , ' because it 's about family


fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix .


by characters so unsympathetic


cold ,


winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity .


, relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message .


, i 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 .


thumbs up


uplifting


, but with restraint


girls , right down the reality drain


( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog )


bloody beauty


a confusing melange of tones and styles ,


what annoyed me most about god is great


a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be .


pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious


charming , quirky , original


the great minds


a fascinating part


something clever


most appealing movies


one of the best movies of the year


joys


( cool visual backmasking )


towards child abuse


much about the film , including some of its casting


milked


lovely and


sharp comedy ,


have easily tipped this film into the `` a '' range , as is


pale xerox of other , better crime movies .


sign


getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing


is a success


pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and


movie audiences both innocent and jaded


has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity


as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie


exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute


done the nearly impossible


is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '


brittle desperation


the entire point of a shaggy dog story


represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken .


but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds


to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain


does a disservice to the audience and to the genre .


chance to prove his worth


to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine


that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers ,


seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation


though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here


great movie


a little better than sorcerer 's stone


a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist


is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone .


worked five years ago


shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians


to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and ,


if the filmmakers were worried the story would n't work without all those gimmicks


a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny


populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility .


major movie


a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached .


the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm


the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing .


lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit


marvelously twisted shapes history


following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish


have no affinity for most of the characters .


, unfunny one


animated filmmaking since old walt


the movie 's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation .


in how much they engage and even touch us


of death


full-bodied performance


holds interest


what an embarrassment .


inventive and mordantly humorous


to be influenced chiefly by humanity 's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god 's sake !


a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare 's plays .


like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie does n't offer much more than the series , but


, even the funniest idea is n't funny .


is muted


the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable


a spectator


skillful fisher


is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power .


unlike lots of hollywood fluff


the mark


unfortunately


the film runs on a little longer than it needs to --


carried by a strong sense of humanism


dull-witted


a retail clerk


potentially trite and overused


predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor


it 's hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but


capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke


recycled


who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers


exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace


, his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy .


a rather unbelievable love interest


longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach


writings to perform


starts out strongly


a film school undergrad


worked so much better dealing in only one reality


has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements .


left the theater


weaving a theme


more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that 's packed with just as much intelligence as action


pitch-perfect forster


joy to watch and -- especially -- to listen to


status


fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines


for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love


, memory , resistance and artistic transcendence


the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions


disoriented


the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and


tawdry


need another film that praises female self-sacrifice


throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material .


top-notch


is beyond me .


all the interesting developments


your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects


austin powers in goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .


assured of the wrong things


resemble their celebrity parents


sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading


is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects ,


laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure ,


a bad way


foster and whitaker are especially fine .


dreary and sluggish


re-creation


that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence


in other words , it 's just another sports drama/character study .


bask in your own cleverness


wastes the talents of its attractive young leads


the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .


like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story


it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .


, this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .


a hunky has-been


complete denial about his obsessive behavior


a movie of riveting power and sadness


clever and


that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless


... 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 .


an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental .


going through the motions


a more down-home flavor


feels familiar and tired .


versatile stanley kwan


are every bit as distinctive as his visuals .


ai n't art , by a long shot


fingering problems than finding solutions


can not even be dubbed hedonistic


fine star performances


a scummy ripoff


world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special ,


leaving the theater


an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime


it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us .


they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas


it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations .


( grant ) goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it .


punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you 'd want to smash its face in . '


despite downplaying her good looks


an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent 's smirk .


promises a new kind of high


has a laundry list of minor shortcomings


sensational , real-life 19th-century crime


puzzle whose pieces do not fit .


more streamlined


he seems embarrassed to be part of


much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it


works spectacularly well ... a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride .


courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis


an enjoyable choice


( dong ) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view , and


injects freshness and spirit


filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power


surrealist


morality , family


yet engrossing piece


things will turn out


so good


not one clever line of dialogue


that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what


drug abuse


exploitative garbage


handbag-clutching


greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .


cocktail


an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends


does n't give you enough to feel good about


is a wonderful thing


-- and far less crass -


the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel


the clumsy cliché


tackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme does n't drag an audience down


exceeding expectations


so integrated with the story


the work of an artist


to feel like you were n't invited to the party


limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action


diane lane 's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue adrian lyne 's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing .


too often strains


dogs who are smarter than him


although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success .


for intelligibility


with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour


's still quite worth


, joyous celebration


has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience


somewhat problematic


a sweet , even delectable diversion


too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises .


beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting


you get to see the one of the world 's best actors , daniel auteuil ,


pays earnest homage to turntablists and


the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull .


kiddie-oriented stinker


potentially incredibly


ultimately worthwhile


bolster director and co-writer


with grace and humor


directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ...


intrepid


a convolution of language that suggests it


fang-baring lullaby


omits


interplay and utter lack


has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made


shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative


a saga


is funny .


appropriate comic buttons


a lovely , sad dance


only masochistic moviegoers need apply .


whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop .


enough originality in ` life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens


a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor


as disney 's 1937 breakthrough


, the humor dwindles .


pleasure or


, well-made b movie


such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence .


ambitiously naturalistic


lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .


falls flat as a spoof


already relayed by superb


generous and deep


's a sit down and ponder affair


if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it .


fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment


a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking


our most flamboyant female comics


passionate and truthful


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 .


added clout to this doc


exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , small


far more meaningful story


not only to his craft , but to his legend


keep the film entertaining


the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .


to hell


this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it 's filmed tosca that you want .


's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn


seriously intended movie


they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times


a mediocre exercise


were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes


charm and heart


of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating


a sickening thud


for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting


inspirational


it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film


irksome , tiresome nature


miraculous as its dreamworks makers


wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits


brian tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .


` best part ' of the movie


judith and zaza 's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics .


pretends to be passionate and truthful


is too optimistic a title .


create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior


by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past


will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it


a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .


hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs


full of grace


a dearth


is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit


yeah , baby


, amusing , sad and reflective


enjoyable ...


comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives


laughably


at least terribly monotonous


able to look ahead and resist living in a past


contains very few laughs and even less surprises .


lackluster script


might to resist


could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors


which is nothing to sneeze at these days


which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy


alienating most


perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment


cloaked in the euphemism ` urban drama


neither is well told


natural and lovely


is superficial and


this woefully hackneyed movie ,


dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film


through the audience 's meat grinder one more


one of the funnier movies in town .


brave and sweetly rendered love story .


compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy


olympia , wash. , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it 's what makes their project so interesting


a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller


's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell .


of the war


ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints


in the conception than it does in the execution


has nothing


is amused by its special effects


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 .


such a bad movie


i shamelessly enjoyed it


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 ? ''


corny examination


the wit


even life on an aircraft carrier --


too hard to be mythic


a self-indulgent script


having a real writer plot


afghan tragedies


dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy ...


to the dullest irish pub scenes


goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises


what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context .


truly funny bits


pseudo-philosophic twaddle


hard-to-swallow premise


hallmark commercial


despair


ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick


this wo n't seem like such a bore


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 .


straightforward , emotionally honest manner


truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne


develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times .


at its best , which occurs often


threadbare standbys


literate material


eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful .


director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie


despite its floating narrative


's no good answer to that one .


has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films .


in eye-popping visuals


all-time great apocalypse movies


more than adequately fills the eyes and


salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life


its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary .


than i 'd expected it to be


well worth revisiting


a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past


remarkable procession


loses all bite on the big screen .


our emotions


it 's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period .


take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad


the world 's political situation seems little different , and ( director phillip ) noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill


an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors


a compelling film .


makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty


's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life


a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout --


it would n't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny .


as one of the great submarine stories


lagaan


provide its thrills and extreme emotions


marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending


seems hopelessly juvenile


appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race


laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany


attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie


a movie full of surprises


bolstered by exceptional performances and


` butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach .


a heavy stench of ` been there , done that ' hanging over the film


turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable


entertaining tricks


more than competent


frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably


the miniseries


at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and


turn and devolves


have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema


the power of the huston performance


super troopers suffers because it does n't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length .


done his subject justice


are undeniably touched


, parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '


dirty


good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace ,


dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care


transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision


its story is only surface deep


is listless , witless , and devoid of anything


an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks .


movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery


one funny popcorn flick .


although ... visually striking and slickly staged


, masterful


wonderfully warm human drama


bigger and more ambitious than the first installment


now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it


worst movie


it made me feel unclean , and i 'm the guy who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies


great minds


a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others .


ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive


scotland looks wonderful ,


disposable , kitchen-sink homage


spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but


expiration date


powerful look


such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema


a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay


catching for griffiths ' warm and winning central performance


bind us


one strike


it was n't horrible either


a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna


you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky


the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose


it 's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there 's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind .


, it 's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role .


in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug


something of a stiff


, retro uplifter .


what 's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behavior .


ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel .


the otherwise good-naturedness of mr. deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less - than-likely new york celebrities


uses a totally unnecessary prologue ,


also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting .


's very little


alcatraz ' ... a cinematic corpse


a one liner as well as anybody


the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork


totally


is far more appealing


of very bad scouse accents


the sheer beauty of his images


of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy


this tired retread


not quite


have pulled off four similar kidnappings before


its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock ( since sept. 11 ) .


is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe


fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors ' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .


last-minute


part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .


so aggressively anti-erotic


have a hard time sitting through this one


reminiscent


suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 .


deception


feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago


has severe body odor


capture these musicians in full regalia


is completely at sea


artsy and often pointless


spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards ,


huge sacrifice


goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it


make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season


dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut


delightful , if minor ,


no level whatsoever for me


to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment


is this bad on purpose


, that 's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in ... and making you sweat .


is an interesting movie ! ''


offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse


pertinent and enduring


's stylishly directed with verve ...


its shortness disappoints


deeply meditative picture


until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism


this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy


compassionate spirit


great dragons !


i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short


a memorable experience


serves up with style and empathy


keep our interest


gooding is the energetic frontman , and it 's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences


absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters


( the characters ' ) misery


hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic ... love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions


effectiveness


the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .


an intriguing twist


succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless


rejects


infidelity and


a genuinely funny ensemble


got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out


fabulously funny


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


seems worth the effort .


terrific date movie


not a trace of humanity or empathy


fourth feature


reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable .


a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen


predictable plot


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


does strong , measured work


more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent


it is n't that funny


slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze


sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack


squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story


an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who 's being conned right up to the finale .


crowd-pleasing goals


tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film


does its best


solid '


a baffling subplot


like a room stacked with pungent flowers


amuses


tasteful


on its empty head


to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie


recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders


's super - violent , super-serious and super-stupid


numbingly dull experience


the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad


never comes together as a coherent whole .


i think it was plato who said , ' i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theater for this one


cute drama


, taut , piercing and feisty


cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end .


the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks .


unturned


far more successful


a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic .


has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera 's drama and lyricism


being able to creep the living hell out of you


ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company ,


it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway .


deeply biased , and wholly


failing , ultimately ,


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 having much dramatic impact


into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell


the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch


of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati


uplifting and moving


already tired


manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum .


marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today .


worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames


the scruffy sands of its titular community


as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful


to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue


a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving


it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy


the film has some of the best special effects ever


see this turd squashed


( a ) soulless , stupid sequel


it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity .


what goes on for the 110 minutes of `` panic room ''


creatively


sillier , not scarier


the actors are simply too good


is one only a true believer could relish .


signals director rick famuyiwa 's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema


( reaches ) wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair


it 's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so


crappy movies


make a big splash


an equally assured narrative coinage


a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . '


recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .


of clichés and a dim


gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements


underestimated


is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast


does n't have big screen magic


... pitiful , slapdash disaster .


the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story ,


a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged .


unbearable


to be moved by this drama


a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying


manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish


distracting


from the guy-in-a-dress genre


the consequences of its own actions and revelations


it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film .


this trite , predictable rehash


uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd


benefited from a sharper , cleaner script


there are n't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least )


just as endearing and easy


into by-the-numbers territory


i feel better already .


never quite


, i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign .


of the rarest kinds of films


this masterful


is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems .


overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors


its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity


's too long and unfocused


like-themed film


exceedingly dull


the mood is laid back


the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing .


debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined


helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome


sneak out of the theater


unsalvageability


a successful adaptation


ambiguous


is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies .


you barely realize your mind is being blown .


true


adrenalized


hollywood excess


would have saved this film a world of hurt .


a servicable world war ii drama


zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups


( moore 's ) better at fingering problems than finding solutions .


should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame


a clever pseudo-bio


first-rate


low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off


since the empire strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth


sentimentality and annoying stereotypes


more than a


a movie without an apparent audience


keep things interesting


the stomach-knotting suspense


first film something of a sleeper success


the best movie


returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin ... have done a fine job of updating white 's dry wit to a new age .


beat-the-clock thriller


collision


an intelligent and deeply


pleasant distraction


to come from an american director in years


thoroughly entertaining comedy that


to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl ,


dramatic enough


change hackneyed concepts


credulous , unassuming , subordinate


dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags


a bold ( and lovely ) experiment


undeniably exceedingly clever


taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings


terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting


frittered


to mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady


its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes


is even better than the fellowship .


could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage .


deceptively simple , deeply satisfying


such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images


utterly delightful .


reaches


imperfect


ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside


like kubrick , soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way .


will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story


a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers


it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire .


` post-feminist ' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women


the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail .


every-joke-has - been-told-a


carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades


amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky 's cleverly constructed scenario


it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel


induce sleep than fright


the film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking .


funniest moments


an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress


glee


the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths .


protagonists


with terrific flair


does n't have much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it .


by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos


shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action


know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics


's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that .


blandly go where we went 8 movies ago


painfully slow cliche-ridden film


the writing is indifferent ,


of its own brilliance


ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff .


it all looks and plays like a $ 40 million version of a game you 're more likely to enjoy on a computer .


misanthropic stuff


one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material


the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very best of them


quite touching


keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions


with this one too


surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy .


developed characters so much


, populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility .


the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine


's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés .


a defiantly retro chord


efficiently


the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past ,


faced


first-time director joão pedro rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations


in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature .


it 's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters


the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half


its bold presentation


the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate .


makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion


vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world


there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us .


hard-edged stuff


arrive early


unholy hokum


is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects .


the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming .


straightforward and


with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy


be as entertaining


'll find in this dreary mess .


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


terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid


underdeveloped effort


it 's an ambitious film ,


, the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care .


all hollywood fantasies


warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed


castro


that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women 's expense


mctiernan 's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious .


a college comedy that 's target audience has n't graduated from junior high school


charismatic jackie chan


skillfully assembled


what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year


i 'm not


relies on more than special effects


's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team


's insanely violent and very graphic


rises to a higher level


a slick ,


to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script


and sumptuous stream


it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry


with such exuberance and passion


meandering ending


schlocky


realistic , non-exploitive approach


overcooked


( soderbergh ) tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience 's intelligence


a witty , whimsical feature


stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences


skewed to ever get a hold on


as it 's too loud to shout insults at the screen


an act of spiritual faith


though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations


's not even a tv special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break


perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey


is good , except its timing


an uninspired philosophical epiphany


spiced


listless and desultory affair


if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that 's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in ... and making you sweat .


's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair .


want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness


he gives the story some soul


an enthralling aesthetic experience ,


brussels


, albeit half-baked ,


rusted-out ruin


fine acting moments


are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have )


a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions .


those crass , contrived sequels


besson has written in years


delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie


, the humor has point


no reason for being


charismatic enough to make us care about zelda 's ultimate fate


nonsense


the smarter offerings the horror genre


flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson


growing up that we do n't see often enough these days


that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema


that this is one summer film that satisfies


forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today


creepy-scary thriller


dangerously honest


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


the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion


an intense political and psychological thriller


thoroughly dull


a fine production with splendid singing


any of the signposts , as if


gusto


gone badly awry


're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it 's surprisingly old-fashioned


nothing wrong with performances here ,


it would be rendered tedious by avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest .


hack nick davies


an uplifting


name-calling


but something far more stylish and cerebral -- and ,


nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight


has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film


hardest


stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy


showcases


quite a vision


cause parents a few sleepless hours --


louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode


like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long


an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place


, repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue .


a minor miracle


an admirable ,


more re-creations of all those famous moments


some of the camera work is interesting


what a world we 'd live in if argento 's hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve


the best sports movie i 've ever seen


not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general


coming close to bowling you over


skillful filmmaker


to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history


of love , family and all that


the premise of `` abandon '' holds promise , ...


black-and-white


it does somehow manage to get you under its spell .


lightly entertaining


is nonjudgmental , and


spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot


as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue ,


only to record the events for posterity , but


exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming


a grating


plain bad


hollywood is sordid and disgusting .


race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout


triumphant


sits there like a side dish no one ordered


imaginative flight


really awful


with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half


little-remembered


blame eddie murphy


less the cheap thriller you 'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters -- damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and


out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .


persistence that is sure to win viewers ' hearts


the schmaltz is manufactured


used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again


see over and over again


it 's worth yet another visit


a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family .


a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece


human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise --


recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face


it 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again .


is even remotely new or interesting


bone-chilling


barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested


constantly touching , surprisingly funny


are in perfect balance .


feels universal


dud


is a mediocre movie trying to get out


, is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies .


was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh


of vampire fun


of the man


charm or


a bilingual charmer


you love it


its dying ,


must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks


gracious


the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy


iwai 's gorgeous visuals seduce .


's worth the concentration .


does such high-profile talent serve such literate material


`` sorority boys '' was funnier


jordan jealous


bracingly truthful


with a hard-to-swallow premise


an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart


waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense


that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in


84 minutes is short


of privileged moments and memorable performances


, it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation .


, spicy footnote


deft and subtle


even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece


three hours and with very little story or character development


-- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances --


dirty faces


witherspoon 's talents


's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby


clunker


, is funny and looks professional .


photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces


that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations


feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism .


horrid little propaganda film


i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater


he does this so well


as two-day old porridge


-- and gross --


seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense


it 's in danger of going wrong


out ballsy and stylish


manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .


is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one


champion


dumbed-down tactics


soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless ,


's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it .


has never looked uglier


entertaining movie


is so bad , that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad .


boffo last hour


( a ) slummer .


a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama .


sounds whiny and defensive ,


of how very bad a motion picture can truly be


as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man


a film that is both gripping and compelling


4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly


make the stones weep --


nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy


aspired


if the video is n't back at blockbuster before midnight , you 're going to face frightening late fees


is a rather toothless take on a hard young life


that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject


oscar nomination


that ` alabama ' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate )


frothy ` date movie


are both excellent ,


described as sci-fi generic


confusion is one of my least favorite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it .


such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show .


what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip .


alas , it 's the man that makes the clothes .


escaped the rut dug by the last one


funnier gags


a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality


unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely ,


that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort


about as enjoyable


their most virtuous limits


this sucker


jeffrey tambor 's


keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste


the coen brothers and


treat


open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning


reasonably entertaining


will wear thin on all


that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived


pryor wannabe


holland lets things peter out midway ,


even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation


wrong with that


to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure


more trifle than triumph


demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged


there 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment


got aids


, it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest .


smoothly sinister freddie


nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored


crisp framing ,


all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness


the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it


'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police


just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .


sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem


an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation .


off-kilter dialogue


barrie good time


the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it .


paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .


true inspiration


ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , do n't shoot the messenger )


has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style .


a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death


into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie


of love and humility


drag the movie down


as vincent became more and more abhorrent


there 's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids ' movie


difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are


suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .


the labyrinthine ways


pass this stinker off


of becoming a better person through love


by a script that assumes you are n't very bright


slightly wised-up kids


unafraid to throw elbows when necessary


immensely enjoyable


does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness


kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked


some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theater for some time .


tense with suspense


green ruins every single scene he 's in


, he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . '


may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar


is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life


spirit 's visual imagination


knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely


the comic opportunities richly rewarded


be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back


flawless film , ( wang ) emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .


burn the negative and the script and


to be a one-trick pony


but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera .


funny


rather unique


the quirky drama


far more entertaining than i had expected


is as thought-provoking


and crude humor


's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .


, green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese .


that has made tucker a star


's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot


what sets ms. birot 's film apart from others in the genre


as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character .


a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship .


( l ) ame and unnecessary .


about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater .


's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout .


that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences


nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one


little more than a well-mounted history lesson


romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows


spent watching this waste of time


loosely connected


the movie 's seams may show ... but


ultimate demise


benefits from serendipity but


i 've never seen or heard anything quite like this film ,


the characters move with grace and panache


handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter


been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie


in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did


visually unappealing


hideousness


intelligent , and humanly funny film .


formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast


this story to go but down


'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .


easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and


jaded


the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period


an admirable reconstruction of terrible events ,


into the trap of pretention


... is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality .


bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies


the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes


us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher


few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt 's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying .


find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her


a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving


questions cinema 's capability for recording truth


the charismatic jackie chan


ill-conceived action pieces


a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film .


retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching


, moving


's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with


looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script


in the excesses of writer-director roger avary


is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film .


with daring and verve


strives to be more , but does n't quite get there .


no justice


never lacks in eye-popping visuals


columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie


played-out idea


silliness


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


, paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip .


silences


most repellent things


comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break


into an a-list director


a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior


this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story .


delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem .


contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing


is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia


its passages of sensitive observation


a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'em powerment .


a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema


deceptively amusing


beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures .


loads of cgi and bushels of violence


the very best


sci-fi thriller


listless direction


hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .


the delicious trimmings ...


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 . '


nothing good


advancing this vision


is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues .


lethargically


, mesmerizing


a pretty good overall picture of the situation


could ever have hoped to be


the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs. the snowman leaves a lot to be desired .


will likely prefer to keep on watching


this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure


trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the `` gadzooks ! ''


both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter .


has never made anything that was n't at least watchable


still have to see this !


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


remind one of a really solid woody allen film ,


how inept is serving sara ?


almost in a class with that of wilde


just plain bad


a good time


's no art here


'll love this movie


as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort


and -- sadly -- dull


swept away '


hate


bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .


of all hollywood fantasies


the series ' message about making the right choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls ' amusing personalities .


their feces


nonsense machine


will be pleased to discover that tian 's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus


of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers


fierce grandeur


fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own


is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker


overused cocktail


the movie is a disaster .


the year selection


, 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 .


another gross-out college comedy -- ugh .


with wisdom and emotion


in gross-out humor


sleek


help but engage


laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best .


huge box-office


twisted sense


, brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star .


with style and empathy


spend $ 9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby


the film has ( its ) moments , but they are few and far between .


make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up


just is n't a very involving one


as plain and pedestrian as catsup --


being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing


colorful bio-pic


a strangely sinister happy ending


going for that pg-13 rating


attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago


cross-dressing


a skillful filmmaker


succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack


( sam 's ) self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining .


her presence succeeds in making us believe


to term an `` ambitious failure


dared


devote time to see it