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4 | Jones makes a great impression as the writerdirector of this little $ million charmer which may not be cuttingedge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart |
3 | In the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama How I Killed My Father French director Anne Fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of maleridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition |
3 | Below may not mark Mr Twohy 's emergence into the mainstream but his promise remains undiminished |
4 | There 's no reason to miss Interview with the Assassin |
4 | Happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music |
3 | Its sheer dynamism is infectious |
3 | For his first attempt at film noir Spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future |
2 | it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart |
4 | Perhaps it 's cliche to call the film refreshing ' but it is |
4 | Drumline ' shows a level of young Black manhood that is funny touching smart and complicated |
3 | It does give a taste of the Burning Man ethos an appealing blend of countercultural idealism and hedonistic creativity |
2 | The limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic lowbudget film noir movie |
1 | The movie is well done but slow |
4 | LRB A RRB wonderfully loopy tale of love longing and voting |
3 | The fascination comes in the power of the Huston performance which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile and in the way the Ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react |
3 | The last scenes of the film are anguished bitter and truthful |
4 | Mr Koshashvili is a director to watch |
3 | Predictable storyline and bythebook scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director John Stockwell |
3 | Antwone Fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but with few exceptions it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it |
3 | One feels the dimming of a certain ambition but in its place a sweetness clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early Italian neorealism |
3 | It challenges this nervy oddity like modern art should |
3 | Whenever you think you 've figured out Late Marriage it throws you for a loop |
4 | The Pianist is Polanski 's best film |
2 | It is a testament of quiet endurance of common concern of reconciled survival |
1 | This Orange has some juice but it 's far from freshsqueezed |
3 | A sensitive modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern China |
2 | High Crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them and maybe that is nobility of a sort |
4 | Cusack 's just brilliant in this |
4 | Knows how to make our imagination wonder |
3 | Jaeeun Jeong 's Take Care of My Cat brings a beguiling freshness to a comingofage story with such a buoyant expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the South Korean cinema |
4 | The overall fabric is hypnotic and Mr Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy |
3 | Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones |
3 | Malcolm McDowell is cool |
3 | Paul Bettany is cool |
2 | Paul Bettany playing Malcolm McDowell |
3 | Cool |
3 | A touching sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an Italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes |
2 | a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of selfimportance |
4 | An inventive absorbing movie that 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist |
3 | It made me want to get madeup and go see this movie with my sisters |
4 | I thought the relationships were wonderful the comedy was funny and the love real ' |
3 | LRB Caine RRB proves once again he has n't lost his touch bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film |
3 | Bogdanovich puts history in perspective and via Kirsten Dunst 's remarkable performance he showcases Davies as a young woman of great charm generosity and diplomacy |
3 | This breezy caper movie becomes a soulful incisive meditation on the way we were and the way we are |
4 | A captivating new film |
4 | Those who are n't put off by the film 's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them |
3 | It 's a cleareyed portrait of an intensely lived time filled with nervous energy moral ambiguity and great uncertainties |
3 | Reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others |
3 | It also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them |
4 | With the same sort of goodnatured fun found in films like Tremors Eight Legged Freaks is prime escapist fare |
3 | A sharp amusing study of the cult of celebrity |
3 | The sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film |
4 | A powerful performance from Mel Gibson and a brutal minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dogtag and an M |
4 | A graceful moving tribute to the courage of New York 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice |
3 | A comingofage tale from New Zealand whose boozy languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board |
1 | Made to be Jaglomized is the Cannes Film Festival the annual Riviera spree of flesh buzz blab and money |
3 | The charming result is Festival in Cannes |
4 | If you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining you 're in luck |
4 | A hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening insightful and entertaining as Grant 's two best films Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones 's Diary |
3 | A riproaring comedy action fest that 'll put hairs on your chest |
3 | If there 's no art here it 's still a good yarn which is nothing to sneeze at these days |
3 | Simultaneously heartbreaking and very funny The Last Kiss is really all about performances |
3 | There is a subversive element to this Disney cartoon providing unexpected fizzability |
3 | An unforgettable look at morality family and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage |
3 | An enjoyable if occasionally flawed experiment |
4 | Miyazaki is one of world cinema 's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers |
3 | If Ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating sleeping and stressreducing contemplation it is clearly a good thing |
4 | Meeting even exceeding expectations it 's the best sequel since The Empire Strikes Back a majestic achievement an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth |
4 | Leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema |
3 | He allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue |
4 | This method almost never fails him and it works superbly here |
4 | Poetry in motion captured on film |
3 | While it can be a bit repetitive overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary |
3 | Directing with a sure and measured hand LRB Haneke RRB steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology |
4 | The entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood |
3 | I found The Ring moderately absorbing largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound |
3 | The filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time and in their cheap B movie way they succeed |
4 | Amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances |
2 | RabbitProof Fence will probably make you angry |
3 | But it will just as likely make you weep and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker |
4 | Both heartbreaking and heartwarming just a simple fable done in an artless sytle but it 's tremendously moving |
3 | This masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat short |
3 | The film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength but it 's propelled by the acting |
4 | The Pianist LRB is RRB a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we today can prevent its tragic waste of life |
4 | Here is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life his dignity and his music |
3 | Strange it is but delightfully so |
3 | Elegant mannered and teasing |
2 | An average comingofage tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son 's discovery of his homosexuality |
4 | The ingenuity that Parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of Wilde himself |
2 | Decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies newsreels and the like |
3 | The unexpected thing is that its dying in this shower of blackandwhite psychedelia is quite beautiful |
1 | A droll bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and smalltown pretension in the Lone Star State |
4 | With each of her three protagonists Miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman 's life out of a deepseated emotional need is about to turn onto a different path |
4 | Ryan Gosling is at a powerful young actor |
2 | A minor work yet there 's no denying the potency of Miller 's strange fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure |
3 | As an introduction to the man 's theories and influence Derrida is all but useless as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man however it 's invaluable |
4 | The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers |
1 | Imperfect |
3 | Yes but also intriguing and honorable a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy |
2 | You 'll get the enjoyable basic minimum |
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