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2 | a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films |
0 | apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . |
0 | they presume their audience wo n't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . |
1 | the entire movie is filled with deja vu moments . |
2 | this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . |
1 | um , no. . |
2 | jonathan parker 's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . |
2 | campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . |
0 | a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . |
2 | béart and berling are both superb , while huppert ... is magnificent . |
0 | a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . |
0 | the film is strictly routine . |
2 | a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . |
0 | the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore 's the scarlet letter . |
0 | for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets -lrb- sci-fi -rrb- rehash . |
2 | this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . |
2 | may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . |
2 | there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . |
0 | if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $ 99 bargain-basement special . |
2 | as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr. lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . |
0 | final verdict : you 've seen it all before . |
0 | blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . |
0 | you ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . |
2 | a slick , engrossing melodrama . |
0 | a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man 's quest to find an old flame . |
1 | eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso 's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . |
0 | will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr. besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms. shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . |
1 | one of -lrb- jaglom 's -rrb- better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . |
0 | lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child 's interest and an adult 's patience . |
2 | the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . |
2 | the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once ... a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . |
0 | too bad . |
2 | a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . |
0 | gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . |
1 | you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . |
0 | a well-intentioned effort that 's still too burdened by the actor 's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . |
1 | analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film 's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . |
1 | there 's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . |
2 | a fun ride . |
1 | what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film 's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . |
2 | an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . |
2 | ` what 's the russian word for wow !? ' |
1 | you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . |
1 | many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . |
2 | otto-sallies has a real filmmaker 's eye . |
0 | lurid and less than lucid work . |
1 | a portrait of an artist . |
1 | once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . |
1 | with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . |
1 | many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , -lrb- yet -rrb- are worthwhile . |
0 | with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake . |
0 | i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment ` tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay . |
2 | overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . |
2 | you live the mood rather than savour the story . |
2 | the movie is so thoughtlessly assembled . |
1 | here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . |
2 | some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . |
2 | it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . |
0 | while american adobo has its heart -lrb- and its palate -rrb- in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . |
2 | unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . |
0 | and it 's a lousy one at that . |
2 | it 's not too fast and not too slow . |
2 | it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . |
2 | it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . |
2 | compellingly watchable . |
0 | despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . |
1 | he may have meant the internet short saving ryan 's privates . |
2 | though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . |
2 | not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . |
2 | it 's worth taking the kids to . |
1 | the movie plays up the cartoon 's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . |
0 | without shakespeare 's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . |
2 | dense , exhilarating documentary . |
0 | ... feels as if -lrb- there 's -rrb- a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . |
2 | poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . |
1 | a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . |
2 | methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . |
1 | this is amusing for about three minutes . |
2 | though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . |
2 | superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . |
2 | a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . |
2 | it 's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . |
2 | the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms. ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh 's book trainspotting . |
2 | admirers of director abel ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . |
0 | not once in the rush to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of ` eh . ' |
0 | an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . |
0 | becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that does n't and a thriller that wo n't . |
1 | at its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . |
2 | could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? |
2 | this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . |
0 | more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine |
2 | cho 's timing is priceless . |
2 | criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . |
2 | there 's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . |
2 | what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . |
1 | greengrass -lrb- working from don mullan 's script -rrb- forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation . |
2 | nicholson 's understated performance is wonderful . |
2 | the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . |
0 | it 's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . |
0 | jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . |
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