| A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 1 |
| This quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . | 4 |
| Even fans of Ismail Merchant 's work , I suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . | 1 |
| A positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a Shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . | 3 |
| Aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . | 1 |
| A comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . | 4 |
| Narratively , Trouble Every Day is a plodding mess . | 1 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from Bartlett 's Familiar Quotations | 3 |
| But it does n't leave you with much . | 1 |
| You could hate it for the same reason . | 1 |
| There 's little to recommend Snow Dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity . | 1 |
| Kung Pow is Oedekerk 's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 1 |
| The performances are an absolute joy . | 4 |
| Fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . | 3 |
| I still like Moonlight Mile , better judgment be damned . | 3 |
| A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 3 |
| a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it | 3 |
| Like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong 's In the Mood for Love -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 2 |
| As inept as big-screen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West . | 1 |
| It 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more . | 2 |
| Best indie of the year , so far . | 4 |
| Hatfield and Hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie 's political ramifications . | 3 |
| It 's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . | 1 |
| That the Chuck Norris `` grenade gag '' occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 2 |
| The plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 2 |
| It arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications . | 2 |
| A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 2 |
| While The Importance of Being Earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it does n't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond Wilde 's wit and the actors ' performances . | 1 |
| The latest vapid actor 's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler 's Reigen . | 1 |
| More vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it 's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . | 2 |
| Nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . | 2 |
| Hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . | 0 |
| Ice Age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . | 2 |
| There 's very little sense to what 's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . | 2 |
| Cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , The Full Monty , with something different . | 2 |
| They 're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . | 1 |
| It almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . | 1 |
| The movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . ' | 0 |
| I still like Moonlight Mile , better judgment be damned . | 3 |
| A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 3 |
| a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it | 3 |
| Like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong 's In the Mood for Love -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 2 |
| As inept as big-screen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West . | 1 |
| It 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more . | 2 |
| Best indie of the year , so far . | 4 |
| Hatfield and Hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie 's political ramifications . | 3 |
| It 's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . | 1 |
| That the Chuck Norris `` grenade gag '' occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 2 |
| The plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 2 |
| It arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications . | 2 |
| A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 2 |
| I still like Moonlight Mile , better judgment be damned . | 3 |
| A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 3 |
| a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it | 3 |
| Like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong 's In the Mood for Love -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 2 |
| As inept as big-screen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West . | 1 |
| It 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more . | 2 |
| Best indie of the year , so far . | 4 |
| Hatfield and Hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie 's political ramifications . | 3 |
| It 's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . | 1 |
| That the Chuck Norris `` grenade gag '' occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 2 |
| The plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 2 |
| It arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications . | 2 |
| A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 2 |
| I still like Moonlight Mile , better judgment be damned . | 3 |
| A welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 3 |
| a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it | 3 |
| Like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong 's In the Mood for Love -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 2 |
| As inept as big-screen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West . | 1 |
| It 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more . | 2 |
| Best indie of the year , so far . | 4 |
| Hatfield and Hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie 's political ramifications . | 3 |
| It 's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . | 1 |
| That the Chuck Norris `` grenade gag '' occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 2 |
| The plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 2 |
| It arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications . | 2 |
| A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 2 |