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3 | It is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band |
4 | Laced with liberal doses of dark humor gorgeous exterior photography and a stablefull of solid performances No Such Thing is a fascinating little tale |
3 | Huppert 's show to steal and she makes a meal of it channeling Kathy Baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on Boston Public just as much as Women 's Augustine |
3 | Nair does n't treat the issues lightly |
3 | She allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly |
4 | One of the best silly horror movies of recent memory with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers |
3 | The work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them |
3 | Strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency |
3 | Has a certain ghoulish fascination and generates a fair amount of Bmovie excitement |
3 | Familiar but utterly delightful |
3 | A fascinating dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction |
3 | The film aims to be funny uplifting and moving sometimes all at once |
3 | The extent to which it succeeds is impressive |
4 | The film brilliantly shines on all the characters as the direction is intelligently accomplished |
3 | While not for every taste this often very funny collegiate grossout comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise too long reduced to directtovideo irrelevancy |
3 | As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director Frank Novak that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism |
4 | In addition to Hoffman 's powerful acting clinic this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt or will feel someday |
4 | Jeffrey Tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazzplaying exterminator is Oscarworthy |
3 | From the opening strains of the Average White Band 's Pick up the Pieces '' you can feel the love |
3 | Stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls |
3 | that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the summer season speaks more of the season than the picture |
2 | Old people will love this movie and I mean that in the nicest possible way Last Orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a year friendship |
3 | Meyjes ' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil |
2 | Tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to Liyan 's backyard |
3 | The movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects |
3 | imagine a scenario where Bergman approaches Swedish fatalism using Gary Larson 's Far Side humor |
3 | Too damn weird to pass up and for the blacklight crowd way cheaper LRB and better RRB than Pink Floyd tickets |
4 | It is most remarkable not because of its epic scope but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth |
1 | It 's not a great monster movie |
2 | But if you 've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn there 's guilty fun to be had here |
2 | Chomp chomp |
2 | The Grey Zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of Holocaust movies but the film suffers from its own difficulties |
4 | Others more attuned to the anarchist maxim that the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' or more willing to see with their own eyes will find Morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating |
3 | Miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise expertly plucking tension from quiet |
3 | Time Out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term |
3 | It 's a sweet laughaminute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth |
3 | Writer\/director Alexander Payne LRB Election RRB and his cowriter Jim Taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look American angst in the eye and end up laughing |
2 | A movie that at its best does n't just make the most out of its characters ' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection |
4 | It 's tough to watch but it 's a fantastic movie |
4 | The best animated feature to hit theaters since Beauty and the Beast years ago |
3 | What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera 's attention to detail |
4 | Pacino is the best he 's been in years and Keener is marvelous |
3 | A solid spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket |
3 | By turns fanciful grisly and engagingly quixotic |
4 | very funny very enjoyable |
3 | Adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of Orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book |
3 | So purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of Hollywood comedies such as Father of the Bride |
3 | Moonlight Mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things |
4 | It is sentimental but feels free to offend is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters is about grief and yet permits laughter |
3 | The real triumphs in Igby come from Philippe who makes Oliver far more interesting than the character 's lines would suggest and Sarandon who could n't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable WASP matron |
3 | Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side |
3 | If you 're willing to have fun with it you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of Unfaithful |
3 | Australia Land Beyond Time is an enjoyable Big Movie primarily because Australia is a weirdly beautiful place |
3 | Hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being |
3 | Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings |
4 | An enthralling aesthetic experience one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing baroque beauty |
4 | The quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by Rachel Griffiths |
4 | A captivating comingofage story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age |
3 | What could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman 's tragic odyssey |
4 | Duvall is strong as always |
4 | A noholdsbarred cinematic treat |
3 | You 'd have to be a most hardhearted person not to be moved by this drama |
3 | Allen 's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal |
4 | Measured against practically any likethemed film other than its Oscarsweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller |
2 | An exhilarating serving of movie fluff |
4 | Maelstrom is strange and compelling engrossing and different a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor |
3 | It makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their smallbudget film |
2 | Dark and disturbing yet compelling to watch |
1 | Too often Son of the Bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained big moment '' will occur and not if '' |
3 | The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life but also acknowledging the places and the people from whence you came |
2 | A solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy |
3 | A terrific insider look at the starmaking machinery of tinseltown |
3 | It 's a diverting enough hourandahalf for the family audience |
1 | A partyhearty teen flick that scalds like acid |
4 | As giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was years ago |
4 | The film offers an intriguing whatif premise |
3 | The Pianist is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make |
3 | This version does justice both to Stevenson and to the scifi genre |
3 | Poignant and delicately complex |
3 | Enough may pander to our basest desires for payback but unlike many revenge fantasies it ultimately delivers |
3 | Cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as I 'm the One That I Want but it 's still damn funny stuff |
3 | In The Pianist Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions and he allows nothing to get in the way |
3 | Despite the film 's shortcomings the stories are quietly moving |
2 | Those who love Cinema Paradiso will find the new scenes interesting but few will find the movie improved |
3 | If you come from a family that eats meddles argues laughs kibbitzes and fights together then go see this delightful comedy |
3 | This bracingly truthful antidote to Hollywood teenage movies that slather Clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty |
2 | The reason to see Sade '' lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis LRB Auteil RRB and Emilie LRB Le Besco RRB |
3 | It 's the filmmakers ' postcamp comprehension of what made oldtime B movies goodbad that makes Eight Legged Freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion |
3 | The film 's strength is n't in its details but in the larger picture it paints of a culture in conflict with itself with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest mediasoaked fears |
2 | best seen as speculative history as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the Warren Report |
3 | It has its faults but it is a kind unapologetic sweetheart of a movie and Mandy Moore leaves a positive impression |
3 | The Saigon of is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence and The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world |
3 | Despite its shortcomings Girls Ca n't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch and it 's a worthy entry in the French comingofage genre |
2 | Flawed but worth seeing for Ambrose 's performance |
4 | With Dirty Deeds David Caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control driven by a natural sense for what works on screen |
3 | The humor and humanity of Monsoon Wedding are in perfect balance |
1 | Lookin ' for sin Americanstyle |
2 | Try Hell House which documents the cautionary Christian spookarama of the same name |
4 | A compelling motion picture that illustrates an American tragedy |
3 | As comedic spotlights go Notorious CHO hits all the verbal marks it should |