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2 | a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . |
0 | disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . |
0 | payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . |
0 | one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . |
2 | a wry , affectionate delight . |
1 | `` sum '' is jack ryan 's `` do-over . '' |
2 | brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . |
0 | the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it 's offensive , but that it 's boring . |
1 | but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . |
2 | a three-hour cinema master class . |
2 | a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that 's so prevalent on the rock . |
2 | may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . |
1 | than ` magnifique ' . |
1 | davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that does n't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . |
2 | caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . |
0 | the rest of the film ... is dudsville . |
2 | brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . |
2 | ... a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . |
0 | director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , can not overcome blah characters . |
0 | the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . |
1 | if you 're a crocodile hunter fan , you 'll enjoy at least the `` real '' portions of the film . |
0 | works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever . |
2 | wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . |
2 | a bold -lrb- and lovely -rrb- experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . |
2 | a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing |
1 | we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . |
0 | if any of them list this ` credit ' on their resumes in the future , that 'll be much funnier than anything in the film ... |
0 | after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . |
0 | the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . |
2 | there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . |
2 | it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . |
1 | just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . |
1 | a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . |
2 | 4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . |
2 | a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . |
1 | while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there 's nothing here to match that movie 's intermittent moments of inspiration . |
0 | despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . |
0 | it 's one long bore . |
0 | if you are curious to see the darker side of what 's going on with young tv actors -lrb- dawson leery did what ?!? -rrb- , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there 's nothing very attractive about this movie . |
2 | it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . |
0 | none of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny . |
2 | ice age wo n't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i 'm giving it a strong thumbs up . |
2 | a tasty masala . |
2 | but it does have one saving grace . |
2 | one ca n't deny its seriousness and quality . |
2 | piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . |
2 | it 'll keep you wide awake and ... very tense . |
0 | an empty , purposeless exercise . |
0 | too bad . |
1 | everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with ` issues ' to simplify . |
1 | the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups do n't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . |
2 | rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen 's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . |
0 | can be classified as one of those ` alternate reality ' movies ... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . |
0 | despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . |
0 | painfully padded . |
0 | the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots -lrb- or cinema seats -rrb- . |
2 | a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . |
2 | highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . |
2 | none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? |
1 | it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . |
2 | a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . |
2 | i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . |
2 | a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . |
2 | for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . |
0 | every joke is repeated at least -- annoying , is n't it ? |
2 | ` anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . ' |
2 | a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . |
1 | in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . |
2 | ... an interesting slice of history . |
0 | for dance completists only . |
0 | it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . |
1 | less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . |
0 | it 's uninteresting . |
0 | bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . |
2 | a tone poem of transgression . |
0 | seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian 's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore . |
0 | confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . |
2 | road to perdition does display greatness , and it 's worth seeing . |
0 | ultimately , sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . |
2 | an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . |
0 | one of the worst movies of the year . |
0 | like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long : it 's too much syrup and not enough fizz . |
0 | too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle 's carpets . |
0 | it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . |
2 | a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . |
1 | it 's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . |
2 | manages to delight without much of a story . |
0 | ... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . |
2 | may take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going , but if you have the patience for it , you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours . |
0 | ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms. paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . |
0 | in the book-on-tape market , the film of `` the kid stays in the picture '' would be an abridged edition |
0 | it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . |
1 | it 's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . |
0 | high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . |
0 | the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . |
2 | a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . |
1 | the camera whirls ! |
2 | ... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ... |
2 | an infinitely wittier version of the home alone formula . |
0 | devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . |
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