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angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . | 1 |
the story 's so preposterous that i did n't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . | 0 |
[ a ] rare , beautiful film . | 1 |
a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . | 1 |
could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . | 1 |
an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . | 1 |
this is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work . | 0 |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it 's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0 |
i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . | 1 |
as shaky as the plot is , kaufman 's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . | 1 |
the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . | 0 |
. . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . | 0 |
frida 's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it 's among the most breathtakingly designed films i 've ever seen . | 1 |
responsM-avel direto pelo fracasso 'artM-mstico ' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox nM-co consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquM-mssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . | 0 |
the film 's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls ' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that 's opened between them . | 1 |
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . | 0 |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film 's short 90 minutes . | 1 |
to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . | 0 |
blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . | 1 |
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . | 0 |
it 's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . | 0 |
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
one of [ herzog 's ] least inspired works . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul 's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . | 1 |
a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . | 0 |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0 |
jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth ca n't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . | 1 |
for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of murphy 's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . | 0 |
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . | 0 |
una pelM-mcula oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . | 1 |
the film is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . | 1 |
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . | 0 |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0 |
told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 1 |
the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the `` webcast . `` | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
do not see this film . | 0 |
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . | 1 |
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . | 0 |
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . | 0 |
she may not be real , but the laughs are . | 1 |
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 1 |
if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 |
there 's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that 's part of what makes dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent . | 1 |
while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it 's alarmingly current . | 1 |
faultlessly professional but finally slight . | 0 |
the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . | 0 |
further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil . | 1 |
featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , `` sade `` covers the same period as kaufmann 's `` quills `` with more unsettlingly realistic results . | 1 |
even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . | 1 |
[ seagal 's ] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie . | 0 |
a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton 's ever-watchful gaze -- and it 's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . | 1 |
the script kicks in , and mr . hartley 's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . | 0 |
awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . ' | 1 |
barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time | 0 |
a fascinating but choppy documentary . | 0 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon 's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
an inventive , absorbing movie that 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
a movie that 's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts . | 0 |
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a word : no . | 1 |
the master of disguise represents adam sandler 's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 0 |
watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . | 1 |
. . . a movie that , quite simply , should n't have been made . | 0 |
captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . `` | 1 |
christina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . | 0 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we 're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . | 1 |
too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel . | 0 |
the dangerous lives of altar boys ' take on adolescence feels painfully true . | 1 |
for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . | 1 |
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 |
the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman 's point-of-view . | 1 |
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . | 0 |
a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film . | 1 |
'aunque recurre a ciertos clichM-is del gM-inero , la poderosa actuaciM-sn de robin williams perdona las fallas del guiM-sn . ' | 1 |
moving and vibrant . | 1 |
a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that does n't exactly favour the audience . | 0 |
delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . | 0 |
it 's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . | 0 |
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film 's characters . | 0 |
the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went back to newcastle , the first half of gangster no . 1 drips with style and , at times , blood . | 1 |
it would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0 |
a tone poem of transgression . | 1 |
as the movie traces mr . brown 's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . | 1 |
a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really is n't . | 1 |
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . | 1 |
not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i 've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school `` cartoon `` . | 0 |
more a gunfest than a rock concert . | 0 |
this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . | 0 |
the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it 's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . | 1 |
. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just is n't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead 's specific gifts . | 0 |
prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . | 1 |
wobbly senegalese updating of `` carmen `` which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai | 0 |
schnitzler 's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . | 0 |
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 . | 0 |
it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it 's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |