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flawed but engrossing
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up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking
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funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy
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great trashy fun
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as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart
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that try too hard to be mythic
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too bad none of it is funny .
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your dream
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an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
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's just plain lurid when it is n't downright silly
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offers no new insight
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shallow , offensive and redundant
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a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating
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is n't as weird as it ought to be
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fun-loving libertine
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the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it
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haphazard theatrical release
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intelligent , and humanly funny film
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is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work
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a nice , light treat
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jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time
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a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna .
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over-indulgent tirade
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some first-rate performances
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by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate
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good documentarian
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be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker
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american musical comedy as we know it would n't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway .
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a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world
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have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek )
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its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves
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even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms. ambrose
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the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public
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truly larger-than-life character
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tackling what seems like done-to-death material
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a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy
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makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place
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lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit
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to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original
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a surprisingly charming and even witty match
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movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation .
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a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized
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that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history
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comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire
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stories work
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no rooting interest
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of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes
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, signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype .
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raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids .
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of good
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the empire strikes back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth
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, it does n't even seem like she tried .
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a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating ,
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overall , it 's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is love .
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, diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep .
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see this terrific film with your kids
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becomes too heavy for the plot
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following your dream
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powerful , chilling , and affecting study
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stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere
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while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift
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, he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long .
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( it 's ) a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest .
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to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments
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seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast
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best kind
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wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring
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thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor
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a sexy , surprising romance ... idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger .
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crash-and-bash
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if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination
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a crisp psychological drama ( and ) a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old `` twilight zone '' episode .
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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
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cruelly funny twist
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is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious
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with great help from kevin kline
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rather beautiful
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a lovely film
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as lazy
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mindless pace in collision
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of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark
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showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches
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quite beautiful
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a triumph
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exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza .
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is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie .
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touching , transcendent love story
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bogged down over 140 minutes
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even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken .
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could n't really figure out how to flesh either out
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director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon ,
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tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde 's droll whimsy helps `` being earnest '' overcome its weaknesses and parker 's creative interference ...
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noisy and pretentious
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should see it as soon as possible .
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of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism
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warm and
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the worst kind of hubristic folly
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cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace
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