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Review
"a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification ."
"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one ."
"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count ."
"the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game ."
"perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions ."
"unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script ."
"steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off ."
"a sentimental mess that never rings true ."
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all ."
"nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah ."
"illuminating if overly talky documentary ."
"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries ."
"a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing film ."
"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation ."
"it 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 ."
"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma ."
"scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism ."
"the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville ."
"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here ."
"it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid ."
"if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid ."
"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whimsy ."
"i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i survived ."
"cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days"
"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved"
"curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary ."
"the story loses its bite in a last-minute happy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride ."
"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable ."
"fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn ."
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '"
"stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom ."
"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement ."
"gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film ."
"equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 ."
"a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know ."
"when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '"
"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes ."
"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion ."
"forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ?"
"manages to be original , even though it rips off many of its ideas ."
"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest ."
"singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story — but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece ."
". . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman ."
"a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors ."
"the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either ."
"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end ."
"disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both ."
"just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing ."
"mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination ."
"the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la"
"part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness ."
"maybe leblanc thought , " hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . ""
"a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them ."
"barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time"
"a taut , intelligent psychological drama ."
"so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along ."
"this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director ."
"earnest but heavy-handed ."
"if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over ."
"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters ."
"haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration ."
"takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny ."
"absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way ."
"painful to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances ."
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at ."
"one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off"
"together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema ."
"a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms ."
"director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth ."
"sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti"
"the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes ."
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people ."
"a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers ."
"the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute ."
"skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd ."
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself"
"dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ?"
"dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit"
"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography ."
"beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental ."
"chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution ."
"a refreshing korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters ."
"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt"
"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted ."
"a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe ."
"it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it ."
"the movie is a mess from start to finish ."
"edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery ."
"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times"
"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self ."
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story ."
"beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics ."
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level ."
"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl ."
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results ."
"somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes ."
"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all ."
"watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence ."
"an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to ."
"it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget ."
"" extreme ops " exceeds expectations . good fun , good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , good cinematography ."
"you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human ."
"the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes . the problem is that van wilder does little that is actually funny with the material ."
"it's obviously struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world ."
"a processed comedy chop suey ."
"it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale ."
"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink ."
"fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix ."
"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone ."
"an erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either ."
"with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake ."
"if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash ."
"everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify ."
"the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything ."
"it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene ."
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van ."
"the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about ."
"it's a hoot and a half , and a great way for the american people to see what a candidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech ."
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent ."
"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd ."
"solaris " is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work ."
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you ."
"the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism ."
". . . hypnotically dull ."
"must be seen to be believed ."
"though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch ."
"an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it ."
"confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it ."
"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma ."
"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser ."
"the film is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are ."
"exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaos ."
"there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable ."
"director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two ."
"nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . ."
"walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm ."
"rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie ."
"there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers ."
"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit ."
"fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique ."
"thoroughly enjoyable ."
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad ."
"a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling ."
". . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 ."
"though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable ."
"a very funny movie ."
"a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well ."
"truly terrible ."
"one of the best , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career ."
"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway ."
"it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff ."
"those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to know ."
"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses ."
"watching beanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it ."
"fluffy and disposible ."
"a fascinating and fun film ."
"such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show ."
"i admired this work a lot ."
"whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel something ."
"a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama's family ."
"my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back ."
"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor ."
"such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema ."
"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya ."
"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better ."
"[drumline] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do ."
"this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell ."
"[a] rare , beautiful film ."
"an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story ."
"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness ."
"every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol ."
"puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself ."
"tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point ."
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless ."
"we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed ."
"gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story ."
"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial ."
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget ."
"[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders ."
"visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last ."
"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true ."
"a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special ."
"all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure ."
"by-the-numbers yarn ."
"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs ."
"polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ?"
"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' ."
"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone ."
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the theme of motherhood ."
"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché ."
"the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line ."
"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers ."
"behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art ."
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff ."
"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid ."
"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures ."
"to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved ."
"with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright ."
"mild , meandering teen flick ."
"although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league ."
"has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now ."
"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video ."
"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough ."
"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit ."
"" its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . ""
"diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing ."
"parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness ."
"münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable ."
"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda ."
"if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite ."
"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime ."
"the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy ."
"the pool drowned me in boredom ."
"an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick ."
"die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with ."
"the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture ."
"the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid ."
"bad company . bad movie . just plain bad ."
"somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp ."
"while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context ."
"woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the " saving private ryan " battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ?"
"the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain ."
"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun ."
"a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear ."
"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture ."
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one ."
"this slow-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party ."
"it's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental ."
"a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms ."
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good ."
"the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology ."
"nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate theme ."
"asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy ."
"the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why ."
"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast ."
"looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights ."
"post 9/11 the philosophical message of " personal freedom first " might not be as palatable as intended ."
"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through ."
"this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rousing treatise of sensual empowerment ."
". . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope ."
"the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away ."
"oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between ."
"only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate ."
"will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them ."
"those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel ."
"it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller ."
"hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship ."
". . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers ."
"the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun ."
"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine ."
"it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd ."
"really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length ."
"family fare ."
"attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage ."
"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace ."
"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy !"
"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain ."
"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length ."
"it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere ."
"farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel ."
"the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory ."
"an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson ."
"as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile ."
"a model of what films like this should be like ."
"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time ."
"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create ."
"yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it great ?"
"over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and substance ."
"boisterous , heartfelt comedy ."
"i can't begin 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 . . ."
"as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time ."
"renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing ."
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch ."
"cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle ."
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance ."
"it's rare to find a film that dazzles the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more ."
"jacquot's tosca is a treat ."
"if you liked such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy ."
". . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the true film buff will enjoy ."
"the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point ."
"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score ."
"longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days ."
"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus ."
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie ."
"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension ."
"adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash ."
"murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also strike closest to the truth ."
"the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next ."
"gets better after foster leaves that little room ."
"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace ."
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail ."
". . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted ."
"resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche ."
"bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it ."
"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that ."
"despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams " bathroom break ! ""
"bullock does a good job here of working against her natural likability ."
"all movie long , 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 ."
"parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place ."
"kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was killed ."
"its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time ."
"the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy ."
"a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind ."
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work ."
"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful ."
"this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format ."
"it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure ."
"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this ."
"the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effects ."
"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds ."
"grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue ."
". . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism ."
"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '"
"the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there ."
". . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its " men in a sardine can " warped logic ."
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might mean ."
"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different ."
"it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow ."
"peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight ."
"notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlights ."
"an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 ."
"a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too late ."
"disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem ."
"whether kiss is a future cult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion ."
"only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm ."
"there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable ."
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning ."
"there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way ."
"it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens"
"the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing ."
"banal and predictable ."
"'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '"
"when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language ."
"a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching ."
"the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us ."
"[an] hilarious romantic comedy ."
". . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention ."
"recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventura and repulsion ."
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s ."
"only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brown : all american at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents ."
"there's a lot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it ."
"absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel ."
"if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick ."
"strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild ."
"the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut ."
"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot ."
"[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion ."
"bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not ."
"it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg's film is that it truly is romance"
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy ."
"a humorless journey into a philosophical void ."
"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade ."
"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation ."
"the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor ."
"fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life ."
"it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's head"
"shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives ."
"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults ."
"it's just a little too self-satisfied ."
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap ."
"clever but not especially compelling ."
"labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public ."
"what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity ."
"sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress ."
"the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher ."
"alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks ."
"…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material ."
"not a cozy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it ."
"unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks " the four feathers " bare ."
". . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be"
"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding ."
"one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce ."
"quite funny for the type of movie it is . . ."
"low rent from frame one ."
"it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewer ."
"one of [herzog's] least inspired works ."
"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them ."
"the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare ."
"never [sinks] into exploitation ."
"'this movie sucks . '"
"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste ."
"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination ."
"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama ."
"a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido ."
"a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears ."
". . . hokey art house pretension ."
"does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively ."
"almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent ."
"gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh ."
"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all ."
"a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative ."
"provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue ."
"the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film ."
"a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't object to the description " unelected " have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious , uncharismatic , overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide ."
"as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks ."
"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bad thing ."
"a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love ."
"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war ."
"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones ."
"it's a count for our times ."
"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill"
"a direct-to-void release , heading nowhere ."
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions ."
"vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love ."
". . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway ."
". . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added ."
"a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances ."
"empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either ."
"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube ."
"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose ."
"the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer ."
"jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films ."
"effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience ."
"i love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off ."
"unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg ."
"there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties ."
"a teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting , less symmetrical , less obviously cross-shaped creation ."
"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks ."
"hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project ."
"you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing ."
"hilarious , acidic brit comedy ."
"as a revenge thriller , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions ."
"an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it ."
"sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 ."
"a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills ."
"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last ."
"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm ."
"eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation ."
"an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece ."
"a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels ."
"a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground ."
"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates ."
"compellingly watchable ."
"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny ."
"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history corners them ."
"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s ."
"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances ."
"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic ."
"resourceful and ingenious entertainment ."
"an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter ."
"a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail ."
"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is ."
"we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones ."
"it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it ."
"if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish ."
"these are lives worth watching , paths worth following ."
"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable ."
"a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level ."
"a moody horror/thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship ."
"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie ."
"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more ."
"a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined ."
"a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre ."
"while not as aggressively impressive as its american counterpart , " in the bedroom , " moretti's film makes its own , quieter observations"
"the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting ."
"a film with a great premise but only a great premise ."
"instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence ."
"" the emperor's new clothes " begins with a simple plan . . . . well , at least that's the plan ."
"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . )"
"a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her ."
"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence ."
"an ugly , pointless , stupid movie ."
"an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world ."
"the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe ."
"sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers ."
"too silly to take seriously ."
"obvious"
"an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad ."
"like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel ."
"there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible ."
"an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances"
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long ."
"a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life ."
"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired ."
"a non-britney person 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 ."
"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scary times at the movies ."
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention ."
"what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness ."
"the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be ."
"predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king ."
"director rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one ."
"despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy ."
"we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left us cold ."
"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected ."
"ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . ."
"both deeply weird and charmingly dear ."
"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant ."
"it's a masterpiece ."
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum ."
"guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep ."
"it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep ."
"claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications ."
"it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish ."
"contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom ."
"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual ."
"do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ?"
"ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism ."
". . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels ."
"a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame ."
"a yarn that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it ."
"this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of one of its most predictable ."
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades ."
"complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong ."
"good ol' urban legend stuff ."
"there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long ."
"the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works ."
"as happily glib and vicious as its characters ."
"pray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism ."
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set ."
"[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is ."
"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise ."
"with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast ."
"it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontal ."
"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability ."
"it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices ."
"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being earnest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . ."
"much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive ."
"an unremarkable , modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title ."
"awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over ."
"smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities ."
"sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune ."
"binoche and magimel are perfect in these roles ."
"pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle ."
"gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife ."
"it may not be " last tango in paris " but . . ."
"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller " new best friend " , who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills ."
"it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs ."
"it's fairly self-aware in its dumbness ."
"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged ."
"a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness ."
"there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer ."
"a work of astonishing delicacy and force ."
"the film benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin ."
"a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality ."
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films ."
"the film hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task ."
"the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well ."
"a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence ."
"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ?"
"what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level ."
"as teen movies go , " orange county " is a refreshing change"
"too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot ."
"although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles ."
"the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor ."
"as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling ."
"the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada ."
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed ."
"aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it ."
"watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer ."
"a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy ."
"just another fish-out-of-water story that barely stays afloat ."
"tiresomely derivative and hammily acted ."
"there's an energy to y tu mamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors ."
"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 ."
"it's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides ."
"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution ."
"you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling ."
"rice 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 ."
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right ."
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary ."
"your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn ."
"an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams ."
"there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm ."
"just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm ."
"this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to reach ."
"all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling ."
"an intelligent , moving and invigorating film ."
"much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here ."
"the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . ."
"for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian ."
"a clever blend of fact and fiction ."
"a vivid cinematic portrait ."
"[a] rather thinly-conceived movie ."
"hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptic ."
"kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself ."
"" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store ""
"a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women ."
"animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots ."
"it's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic ."
"flavorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with ."
"happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match ."
"thurman and lewis are hilarious throughout ."
"the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality"
"hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department ."
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture ."
"a compelling journey . . . and " his best friend remembers " is up there with the finest of specials ."
"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts ."
"the hours makes you examine your own life in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . ."
"a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass ."
"possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio ."
"the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling ."
"barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful ."
"the ending does leave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble piece ."
"punitively affirmational parable ."
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds ."
"the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine ."
"i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man ."
"it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years ."
"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation ."
"frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen ."
"after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial ."
"a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption ."
"it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt !"
"sharp , lively , funny and ultimately sobering film ."
"this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same ."
"forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore ."
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen ."
"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad ."
"decent but dull ."
"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli ."
"for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression ."
"the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays ."
"no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make ."
"a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer ."
"a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society ."
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together ."
"several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in " unfaithful . " why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me ."
"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '"
"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script ."
"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren ."
"an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction ."
"about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american dream ."
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new ."
"" 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point ."
"the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design ."
"it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well ."
"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness ."
"worth the effort to watch ."
"each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense ."
"a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties ."
"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed ."
"a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy ."
"you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story ."
"[a] stuporously solemn film ."
"thoughtful , provocative and entertaining ."
". . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits ."
"lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it ."
"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control ."
"enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later ."
"i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes ."
"a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail ."
". . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . ."
"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action ."
"westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing ."
"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over ."
"the film is all a little lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny ."
"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else ."
"cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different ."
"the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe ."
"a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongst them ."
"smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way ."
"mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor ."
"often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . '"
"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new ."
"for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion ."
"i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x ."
"instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos ."
"this is a film living far too much in its own head ."
"occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style ."
"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters ."
"dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring ."
"a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls ."
"more of a career curio than a major work ."
"once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady experience ."
"" auto focus " works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era"
"a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation ."
"taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot ."
"as we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up ."
"what's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be ."
"drowning's too good for this sucker ."
"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's best in more than a decade ."
"love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit ."
"a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind ."
"there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel ."
"a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life ."
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out ."
"the innocence of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be ."
"it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag ."
"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations ."
"consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire ."
"the visuals alone make metropolis worth seeing ."
"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop ."
"sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading ."
"a picture that extols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion ."
"heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations ."
"noyce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective ."
"here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get ."
"reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby ."
"uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos ."
"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic ."
"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller ."
"droll caper-comedy remake of " big deal on madonna street " that's a sly , amusing , laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate " bellini " begins to look like a " real kaputschnik . ""
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special ."
"is it a total success ? no . is it something any true film addict will want to check out ? you bet ."
"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape ."
"dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee ."
"the disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on ."
"impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act ."
"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other ."
"if the movie were all comedy , it might work better . but it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness ."
"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it ."
"the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor"
"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time ."
"not a bad journey at all ."
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there ."
"the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass ."
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine ."
"there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over ."
"it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable ."
"the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious ."
"the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers ."
"a wildly funny prison caper ."
"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack ."
"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie ."
"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them ."
"too clever by about nine-tenths ."
"it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first ."
"well-meant but unoriginal ."
"a compelling portrait of moral emptiness"
"toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick ."
"director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here ."
"a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch ."
"the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances ."
"the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power ."
"nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre ."
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance ."
"trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible ."
". . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original ."
". . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role ."
"with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike ."
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters ."
"without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking ."
"japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date ."
". . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot ."
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield ."
"cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered " shut up " to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another ."
"a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies ."
"odd and weird ."
"yes , i suppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't ."
"shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies ."
"novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach ."
"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more ."
"there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief ."
"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 ."
"francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them ."
"sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year ."
"to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree ."
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment ."
"about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook ."
"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing ."
"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that ."
"if jews were catholics , this would be catechism"
"the long-range appeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages ."
"one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch ."
"[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel ."
"schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression ."
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten ."
"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion ."
"the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold ."
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't ."
"a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking ."
"'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . '"
"might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people ."
"not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow ."
"reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty ."
"there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit ."
"breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting ."
"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head ."
"if only merchant paid more attention the story ."
"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings ."
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion ."
"a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul ."
". . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be ."
"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist ."
"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids ."
"a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches ."
"" the mothman prophecies " is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls ."
"mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way ."
"the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and simply the best family film of the year ."
"more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris ."
"the acting alone is worth the price of admission ."
"interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon' right from under their noses ."
"for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movie ."
"impresses you with its open-endedness and surprises ."
"producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway"
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound ."
"a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise ."
"so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality ."
"like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet ."
"an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson ."
"the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack ."
"fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply ."
"less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession ."
"rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them ."
"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise ."
"downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating ."
"a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners ."
"formulaic to the 51st power , more like ."
"the movie isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here ."
"it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will ."
"a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact ."
"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability ."
"an uplifting , near-masterpiece ."
"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing ."
"cinematic poo ."
"it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elements ."
"offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already seen ."
"" analyze that " is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original ."
"the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins ."
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled ."
". . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit ."
"a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats ."
"leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago ."
"lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned ."
"an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best ."
"it took 19 predecessors to get this ?"
"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory ."
"the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable ."
"chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achievement ."
"the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not ."
"the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat ."
"anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups ."
"a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages ."
"an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas ."
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame ."
"majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast ."
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen ."
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call ."
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches ."
"everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids ."
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence ."
"serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it ."
"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '"
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions ."
"u . s . audiences may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts ."
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill ."
"" cremaster 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! ""
"a loving little film of considerable appeal ."
"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do ."
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance ."
"it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness ."
"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film"
"entertains by providing good , lively company ."
"needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance ."
"dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years ."
"cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes ."
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear ."
"so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe ."
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't ."
"[lawrence bounces] all over the stage , dancing , running , sweating , mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place ."
"a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial ."
"for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us ."
"nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks ."
"the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads ."
"the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip ."
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation ."
"enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age ."
"a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality ."
"a fascinating but choppy documentary ."
"a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight ."
"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some time ."
"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is ."
"in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in ."
"woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie biz ."
"it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth ."
"the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless ."
"director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through ."
"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen ."
"never comes together as a coherent whole ."
"[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why ."
"don't even bother to rent this on video ."
"you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies ."
"a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie ."
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences ."
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences ."
"an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more ."
"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made ."
"gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up ."
"add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director ."
"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer ."
". . . a true delight ."
"the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie ."
"without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality ."
". . . stale and uninspired ."
"a dreary movie ."
"makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun ."
"for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue ."
"boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon ."
"it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything ."
"there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination ."
"it's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children ."
"this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers ."
"a quiet treasure -- a film to be savored ."
"its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary ."
"may be far from the best of the series , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation ."
"i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring ."
"a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession ."
"'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '"
". . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler ."
"is it a comedy ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ?"
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling ."
"did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray ."
"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness ."
"leigh's film is full of memorable performances from top to bottom ."
"eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . ."
"jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory ."
"the movie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions ."
"contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster ."
"ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável ."
"the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises ."
"beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama ."
"overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film ."
"love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it ."
"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales ."
"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry ."
"the very definition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . ""
"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher ."
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life ."
"worthy of the gong ."
"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '"
"an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution ."
"at a time when half the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history ."
"once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else ."
". . . takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that could touch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport"
"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness ."
"a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection ."
"for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one ."
"" bad " is the operative word for " bad company , " and i don't mean that in a good way ."
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio ."
"the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well ."
"the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight ."
". . . a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh ."
"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer ."
"dense with characters and contains some thrilling moments ."
"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride ."
"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed ."
"we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity ."
". . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces ."
"the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams ."
"aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory ."
"none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest ."
"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on ."
"[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful ."
"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not ."
"there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance ."
"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt ."
"coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else ."
"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based ."
"at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture ."
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performances alone ."
"looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon ."
"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz ."
"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion ."
"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained ."
"by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around ."
"the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art ."
"sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed ."
"a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal ."
"it's one long bore ."
"a quiet , pure , elliptical film"
". . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone ."
"a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . ."
"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time ."
"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups ."
"we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting ."
"'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise ."
"it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons ."
"a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair ."
"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head ."
"you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance ."
"a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material ."
"a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow ."
"starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches ."
"horrible"
"the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater ."
"an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium ."
"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability ."
"although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women ."
"the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film ."
"the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence ."
"it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience ."
"a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent ."
"'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree ."
"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up ."
"it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt ."
"one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others ."
"impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies ."
"judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice ."
"the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb ."
"this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting still ."
"you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report ."
"it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid ."
"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film ."
"there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade ."
"shallow , noisy and pretentious ."
"morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating ."
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek ."
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun ."
"philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess ."