when the professor turns up missing , one of his students , jake whitcomb , finds the professor's journal , inside of which is a copy of the map .	1
rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding .	0
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting .	0
director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times .	0
desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats .	0
leela is a true reflection of how the south asian-american community is beginning to emerge , blend , and influence the mainstream american culture in its own exquisite ways .	1
it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment .	0
rio danisworo ( marcellius siahaan ) is a rigid " all about business " young profesional .	1
the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring .	0
soon the evil boss learns about sienna's affair with kilabot and kidnaps her to exact revenge .	1
a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture .	0
the deeper john digs , the clearer the mothman's purpose arises - only to leave his life in immediate danger , as it seems .	1
you know you're in for a good ol' popcorn-munching time when the movie's tagline is a bad pun on the title of a piece of fine literature .	0
death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision .	0
but things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the jennings family , in part because their daughter abby is asthmatic , and in part because the jennings' find out more than hickley wants them to know .	1
cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff .	0
beth's style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood .	1
when rebecca went away to college john thought webcams would help them keep in touch .	1
when jason sees a movie preview of his story , he and best friend kaylee ( amanda bynes ) go to los angeles to make wolf confess to using jason's story as well as to clear jason's name and to get him out of having to attend summer school .	1
a newscaster for the channel 7 eyewitness news complains about how god has only made his life a total waste .	1
that the chuck norris " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is .	0
when a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago , jim morris resorted to the next best thing : coaching .	1
a chained to a rock finnish sniper-kamikadze wille managed to set himself free .	1
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair .	0
of course , this isn't the best idea , since it involves sneaking into gun-nut carl's house in the middle of the night .	1
because he is in debt , dewey poses as his roommate , a substitute teacher , and gets a job teaching a 4th grade class .	1
steve quickly discovers that burt cannot even provide temporary lodging , but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way .	1
uneven but ultimately appealing satire of the dreck we call white man's rap music . some good performances and an often goofy script make for a generally good time .	0
forgotten in the nearby camp of maslakh ( slaughterhouse ) 150 , 000 displaced afghans hardly survive .	1
the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts .	0
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts .	0
tim plans to spend his 21st birthday at his scottish estate with eight of his closest friends .	1
he confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims .	1
when he arrive she finds that his cousin has lied and that he lives in a flat above a shop with illegals etc . however he sets out to be a film star and auditions for a role that he gets .	1
he feels he is only an instrument of their greed .	1
it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed .	0
about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come .	0
more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films .	0
sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely .	0
beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures .	0
harry , it turns out , is a parsel-tongue .	1
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .	0
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ?	0
smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way .	0
this may be burns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen .	0
though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them .	0
erin , who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang , reveals another side to jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical pianist .	1
this is the story of a pot-smoking , free-wheeling los angeles record producer ( mcdormand ) , with a rock star boyfriend ( nivola ) , whose straight-laced son ( bale ) comes back home after graduation from harvard medical school with his rich fianc&#233 ; ( beckinsale ) , who's working on a book .	1
there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see .	0
their one song rarely - if ever - gets played on the radio .	1
pronounced cured , she became a psychoanalyst herself and , within eight years , was practising alongside the founding fathers .	1
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer .	0
he follows a new suspect , huh , and eventually catches him in the act of brutally murdering a woman in a crowded techno bar .	1
goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab .	0
the time constraints of his job prevent him from spending time with his family and friends .	1
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux .	0
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot .	0
chapman is on trial for a murder of latin american villagers while he was in the marines .	1
jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema .	0
when he arrives he finds that the cousin has been missing for your years , leaving behind a wife and five daughters living in a small town full of secrets of blackmail and murder .	1
pauly then fakes his own death , and the media goes crazy .	1
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it's icky .	0
shae is about to return to bed when she hears water running in the bathroom .	1
when max's performance is no competition for producers' nephews and bigger " names , " his only option is to cripple the competition - literally .	1
frodo and sam take gollum prisoner and continue on to mordor on the mission to destroy the one ring .	1
the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand .	0
pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .	0
part travelogue , part road picture , part meditation on class , mortality and intimacy , this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer , as astute as it is steamy .	0
it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland .	0
leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here .	0
like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well .	0
in a time when a woman's place was in the home , young emily ventures out and falls in love with a young soldier , eventually carrying his baby out of wedlock .	1
too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up .	0
in an alternate space and time , a mythological being called the guardian is charged with manipulating and protecting dark matter .	1
nine good teeth reveals many of the common truths hidden away in all our families , as well as the unexpected - late night visits from jack kerouac , illicit love affairs and the occasional murder .	1
pero alargando la mano ya no consiguen dinero suficiente y salva decide aprovechar el ambiente general y hacerse pasar por un nuevo mes&#237 ; as .	1
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off .	0
while there prove to be a lot of pitches to be thrown before he makes it off the mound , big-league dreams are revived , and there's no telling where he could go .	1
moments of compassion and kindness circulate within a mounting concern for individual survival .	1
the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament .	0
an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story .	0
might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people .	0
edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child .	1
everyone involved starts getting killed , with mitchell being the next in line .	1
throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love , religion , near-death experiences , drugs , starvation , and how it feels to be loved .	1
ratliff deserves high marks for his restraint and willingness not to try and shape or mold our opinion regarding what is being shown .	0
the jokes sometimes fall flat , but the weirdness and darkening of tone make for quirky fun .	0
how do a man who has never loved and a woman who refused to ever love again deal with the fact that they are meant to be together ?	1
gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .	0
this 'blonde goddess' , however , left her career at its peak to devote herself to a life of meditation and religious devotion , in the mountains of rio de janeiro .	1
harboring a secret , john guides angela to a shocking realization that will uncover the past .	1
more than simply a portrait of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . .	0
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modern day .	0
as he struggles to achieve social success , he discovers his darker side .	1
before his very eyes on the store tv monitor , he sees his pick come up as the winning numbers for $50-million !	1
smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes .	0
she is married to henry bauford ( linus roache ) son of a wealthy british industrialist , when she encounters nick callahan ( clive owen ) a renegade doctor , whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn africa moves her deeply .	1
nicklas lives a pretty normal teenage life , until one day , not far from graduation , when a gangster from his school beats him up .	1
but when the cockettes flew to new york city to appear off broadway^&#197 ; well , you'll just have to see what happened when new yorkers took a look at them .	1
[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be .	0
if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil .	0
destined to make allen's fans around the world giggle , guffaw and shiver with delight .	0
a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women .	0
a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution .	0
'the count of monte cristo' is a remake of the alexander dumas tale by the same name .	1
but lulu is newly single and the last thing she needs is a man in her life .	1
he fails to win eve's heart and is consequently dejected .	1
escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions .	0
klein ischgl actually turns out to be a stone-age-like townlet ( 9 inhabitants ) up the mountain , and t&#252 ; rlichs grandfather , who runs the place , even resists to electricity and indoor plumbing .	1
glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism .	0
inside the breathtaking structure , they discover wondrous artifacts of an advanced , but long dead , civilization .	1
short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in recife , unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the brazilian underground : a butcher married with an evangelical woman , a necrophile in love with a bar owner , a transvestite , and many others .	1
 a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .	0
serry perfectly captures the peculiar climate , creating uncanny echoes with today's situation .	0
when the singing veggies encounter some car trouble , they're stranded at old , rundown seafood joint where nothing is quite as it seems .	1
it's steps , a film that draws its inspiration from the marx brother to monty python and it was done on such a shoe-string budget , it would make a studio executive blush .	1
this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream .	0
does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character's story .	0
katie is a young girl who loves to climb .	1
easily stands alongside such throat-clutching classics of cinematic political action as z and the battle of algiers .	0
his songs were once well thought of , but the music business clearly has changed .	1
based on the classic sci-fi novel by h . g . wells , " the time machine " stars guy pearce in the role of scientist and inventor , alexander hartdegen , who is determined to prove that time travel is possible .	1
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept Ц a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman .	0
not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions .	0
mi yun and kang have difficulty working with each other , as their personalities and working methods are constantly in conflict .	1
set against the bright lights of manhattan , a tale which takes a comic , urbane look at the modern male ego at war in the singles scene trenches .	1
caso vocк sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do tйrmino da projeзгo , nгo se preocupe : ninguйm lhe enviarб penas simbolizando covardia .	0
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) .	0
seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore .	0
a profoundly moving document . . . the filmmakers' refusal to downplay the situation's intractability makes the glimmer of hope the film offers that much more powerful .	0
in a bid to regain control of her life , ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious curse .	1
as i settled into my world war ii memories , i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances .	0
the deeper matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the blackwoods .	1
there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects .	0
majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident .	0
twenty-two year old steve is on top of the world .	1
bret packard is the best baseball player in the world .	1
russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage .	0
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann .	0
it is only natural that only the most violent and powerful survive " the shu " .	1
when he wakes up the morning after his bachelor party in bed with a strange woman ( stiles ) , a man ( lee ) presumes he must have cheated on his fiancee .	1
the son of zamindar narayan mukherjee , devdas ( shahrukh khan ) was born with a silver spoon in his mouth .	1
rodney boland is a professional hit man who " services " politicians and their wealthy backers .	1
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr .	0
this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards .	0
only a man so afraid of his world is capable of building a device to change it .	1
they are the only men who are allowed to kill .	1
having sought and found refuge within this ancient religious society , sheldon finds himself captivated by this unusual and powerful world and the three old men who run it .	1
like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too late to learn .	0
stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe .	0
as they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive , they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption .	1
the movie mixes the personal life of the ancestors of this man as well as historical moments for m&#233 ; xico such as the reform war , the mexican revolution , etc . arc&#225 ; ngel can't sleep .	1
when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm .	0
much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes .	0
with her birthday fast approaching , she must decide whether or not to keep the promise she made to herself over a decade earlier : quit the music business at 40 if she hasn't made it by then .	1
in the heat of the moment dante blames lucy saying , " you never wanted this baby .	1
ozpetek succeeds in portraying small nuances that demonstrate the stages of love -- unrequited or blossoming -- and in showcasing the family structure created by a group of people who have been rejected for one reason or another .	0
a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind .	0
this is especialy true when he makes a special connection at a hollywood industry party .	1
at the right time of day , in the right frame of mind , baran can and should be appreciated as a work of delicate and unmistakable beauty .	0
immediately they are further sent to romulus , where a new praetor , shinzon , a half-reman cloned from captain picard , appears to want peace with the federation .	1
born in eastern europe , tobias grew up in poverty , the son of a thief , beggar and prostitute .	1
tension mounts , and as the cops arrive , morgan is growing impatient .	1
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety .	0
godard has pared down his extravagances into a densely concentrated , resonant simplicity .	0
annie , an alluring lady , catches the eye of old widower leoncio .	1
a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors .	0
90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .	0
it is as if he has suddenly discovered his love of fatherhood .	1
they create a new day care facility called " daddy day care " and have kids like : the smart-mouthed-but-became-polite crispin ( shane baumel ) , the really-smart becca ( hailey noelle johnson ) , and the flash/tony ( jimmy bennett ) .	1
in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns .	0
during his tenure , he was responsible for such revolutionary films as the godfather , rosemary's baby , love story , the odd couple , harold and maude and chinatown .	1
his model girl friend ( anne marie johnson ) immediately leaves him .	1
when the apocalypse arrives , it takes the form of a bio-chemical virus , contaminating the cities , mountains , and shorelines .	1
it would seem that nothing is capable of distracting scotty johns from working on his much-anticipated second book .	1
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power .	0
theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ?	0
and while bruce is getting everything he wants , he has been ignoring his girlfriend , grace and loses her .	1
he gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient queen akasha and she wants him to become her king . . .	1
after the death of a " mucker " and two others opposing her sect , the local authorities decide to act against her and her followers .	1
her young son dies , her marriage to max is ruined , and her lover is in fact dangerous in his jealousy and mad rage , but no matter what the consequences - his subversive spirit lives inside her , forms her , obsesses her .	1
all of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in new york .	1
chance is a black comedy about how hard it is to find " the one " .	1
the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment .	0
just when we think we have a grasp on each character's inner-motives , more characters get sucked into the fray altering everyone's dynamic and the course of april's " perfect " shower .	1
people are becoming petrified , and no-one knows what is doing it .	1
henceforth , he will meet with unexpected situations that give him the idea for the perfect counterpoint in his plot of the absurd .	1
big yard operates a child smuggling ring and 'superbob' must save dante or lose his son forever .	1
determined not to let this opportunity slip by , she vows to act on that information right away .	1
she's desperately on the prowl for a man , but since she's more mouse than cat , she get's herself into scrape after scrape in her screwball pursuit of love .	1
till the end of time , they will stay that way .	1
harry , a world-weary career criminal masquerading as a priest , takes to the road with escaped convict nate and his jailbait girlfriend angel .	1
gigli , a lowly and inept hitman , is assigned a job by the mob to kidnap a mentally retarded brother of a california district attorney .	1
what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy .	0
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love .	0
though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .	0
welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it , but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst .	0
unlike most reunion stories that climax with a clich&#233 ; happy ending , daughter from danang is a real-life drama .	1
his dreams seemingly become shattered as caroline is married and has a daughter .	1
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending .	0
