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3 | It 's a day at the beach with air conditioning and popcorn |
1 | Frida is n't that much different from many a Hollywood romance |
3 | What sets it apart is the vision that Taymor the avant garde director of Broadway 's The Lion King and the film Titus brings |
4 | Stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy the film operates nicely off the element of surprise and the large cast is solid |
4 | Extremely well acted by the four primary actors this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten |
3 | The film exudes the urbane sweetness that Woody Allen seems to have bitterly forsaken |
3 | K The Widowmaker is derivative overlong and bombastic yet surprisingly entertaining |
3 | It 's good hardedged stuff violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done morally alert and streetsmart |
3 | Cineasts will revel in those visual injokes as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of Denmark 's Dogma movement |
3 | It 's a rare window on an artistic collaboration |
1 | begins with promise but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot |
4 | Perhaps the best sports movie I 've ever seen |
4 | Cho 's timing is priceless |
2 | creates a visceral sense of its characters ' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above what could have been a melodramatic Lifetime Channelstyle anthology |
4 | A sensitive moving brilliantly constructed work |
3 | An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch |
3 | A reasonably entertaining sequel to 's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility |
3 | LRB Reno RRB delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a wellbalanced fashion |
3 | there is truth here |
4 | a confident richly acted emotionally devastating piece of work and 's first great film |
3 | A touching smallscale story of family responsibility and care in the community |
4 | Arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year |
3 | The casting of von Sydow is itself Intacto 's luckiest stroke |
3 | No it 's not as singleminded as John Carpenter 's original but it 's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels |
4 | A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever amusing and unpredictable |
4 | Stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be |
4 | the first \/ of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices LRB cool visual backmasking RRB a solid cast and some wickedly sick and twisted humor |
3 | This movie got me grinning |
3 | There 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something |
3 | An oldfashioned drama of substance about a teacher 's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue |
3 | What 's not to like about a movie with a children 's ' song that includes the line My stepdad 's not mean he 's just adjusting ' |
2 | This Englishlanguage version does full honor to Miyazaki 's teeming and often unsettling landscape and to the conflicted complexity of his characters |
3 | The pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more seriousminded concerns of other yearend movies |
3 | Not everyone will welcome or accept The Trials of Henry Kissinger as faithful portraiture but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one |
3 | There are no special effects and no Hollywood endings |
3 | Like the original this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by Allen 's astringent wit |
1 | Despite its Hawaiian setting the sciencefiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick the basic plot of Lilo '' could have been pulled from a tearstained vintage Shirley Temple script |
2 | A brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others |
4 | Filled with honest performances and exceptional detail Baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch a haunting ode to humanity |
2 | Sparkles in its deft portrait of Tinseltown 's seasoned veterans of gossip wealth paranoia and celebrityhood |
3 | In its dry and forceful way it delivers the same message as Jiri Menzel 's Closely Watched Trains and Danis Tanovic 's No Man 's Land |
4 | a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking |
2 | LRB Haynes ' RRB homage to such films as All That Heaven Allows '' and Imitation of Life '' transcends them |
4 | Simply put Far From Heaven '' is a masterpiece |
3 | 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 |
1 | Although fairly involving as far as it goes the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up Catholic or really anything |
2 | Proves mainly that South Korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their Hollywood counterparts |
3 | A very funny romantic comedy about two skittish New York middleagers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles |
4 | Topnotch action powers this romantic drama |
3 | Beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart |
3 | It really is a shame that more wo n't get an opportunity to embrace small sweet Evelyn ' |
4 | I stopped thinking about how good it all was and started doing nothing but reacting to it feeling a part of its grand locations thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness gasping at its visual delights |
3 | Probably the best case for Christianity since Chesterton and Lewis |
3 | A gently funny sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good that is to say entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp overmanipulative Hollywood practices |
3 | Would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultraprovincial New Yorker if yearold Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character Melanie Carmichael with a massive infusion of oldfashioned Hollywood magic |
3 | Visually fascinating an often intense character study about fathers and sons loyalty and duty |
3 | A lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal selfdiscovery and a picaresque view of a littleremembered world |
3 | Schütte 's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues Brecht faced as his life drew to a close |
4 | A slick engrossing melodrama |
3 | SMNE 's satire is not subtle but it is effective |
3 | It 's a quirky offbeat project |
1 | While some will object to the idea of a Vietnam picture with such a rahrah patriotic tone Soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation |
3 | Even if you do n't know the band or the album 's songs by heart you will enjoy seeing how both evolve and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the st Century |
4 | The solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre |
3 | Films about loss grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days |
3 | Seen in that light Moonlight Mile should strike a nerve in many |
4 | It 's endlessly inventive consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage |
4 | It is definitely worth seeing |
3 | An impeccable study in perversity |
3 | Far From Heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat but more than that it 's a work of enthralling drama |
4 | A movie that both thrills the eye and in its overthetop way touches the heart |
3 | Stuffed to the brim with ideas American instigator Michael Moore 's film is a rambling examination of American gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition |
3 | Affectionately reminds us that in any language the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things |
2 | A drama of great power yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy |
4 | The largeframe IMAX camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grownup fish lovers |
2 | The result is more depressing than liberating but it 's never boring |
3 | A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously |
4 | It is also beautifully acted |
2 | It is n't that the picture is unfamiliar but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems |
2 | Same song second verse coulda been better but it coulda been worse |
4 | It 's a technically superb film shining with all the usual Spielberg flair expertly utilizing the talents of his topnotch creative team |
3 | Wilco fans will have a great time and the movie should win the band a few new converts too |
3 | Tsai has a welldeserved reputation as one of the cinema world 's great visual stylists and in this film every shot enhances the excellent performances |
2 | The date movie that Franz Kafka would have made |
3 | The fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that Broomfield 's interviewees or even himself will not be for much longer |
4 | Leguizamo and Jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb |
3 | I liked this film a lot |
3 | there is enough originality in Life ' to distance it from the pack of paintbynumber romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens |
4 | A solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude |
3 | Nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions one part romance novel one part recipe book |
4 | With or without the sex a wonderful tale of love and destiny told well by a master storyteller |
3 | On the surface a silly comedy Scotland PA would be forgettable if it were n't such a clever adaptation of the bard 's tragic play |
3 | A weird arresting little ride |
2 | A fine film but it would be a lot better if it stuck to Betty Fisher and left out the other stories |
4 | A firstclass road movie that proves you can run away from home but your ego and all your problems go with you |
1 | You might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see Simone '' and consider a DVD rental instead |
4 | Well cast and well directed a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin |
4 | A backstage mustsee for true fans of comedy |
3 | There 's backstabbing interracial desire and most importantly singing and dancing |
3 | The film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from Paul 's perspective |