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a very moving and revelatory footnote
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is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love .
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terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase
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this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic .
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mindless action flick
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this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications
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frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances
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at its best , which occurs often , michael moore 's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society ? '
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feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama
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directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men
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too dry and too placid
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delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower .
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stylistic austerity and forcefulness
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the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past
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it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? ''
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perfected
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enjoyable feel-good family comedy
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to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry
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a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title
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suffers from a flat script and a low budget .
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, it 's a pale imitation .
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boring
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powerful documentary
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a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look
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defeated the film ... it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , `` wait a second
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delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario .
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entirely witless and inane
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refracting
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is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale .
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the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes
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are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all .
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puts washington , as honest working man john q. archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher
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as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing/reappearing acts
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turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny .
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a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film .
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not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet
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frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he 's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him .
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michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he 's got as potent a topic as ever here
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a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day .
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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 .
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in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase .
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one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable
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a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public
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mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema .
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tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo
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her nomination as best actress even more
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good laughs
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it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it
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the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .
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crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
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this summer that do not involve a dentist drill
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's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free
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a compelling french psychological drama
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a sweet , tender sermon
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are simply too bland to be interesting
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` dragonfly ' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue .
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impossible spot
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captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience .
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will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime
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a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded .
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are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks
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moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction
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a treatise on spirituality
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a dickensian hero
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for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish
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naomi watts is terrific as rachel
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lax and limp a comedy as i 've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material
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poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat
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the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes
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it 's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .
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bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ?
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come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another
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grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback 's heidegger - and nietzsche-referencing dialogue .
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of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome
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general family chaos to which anyone can relate
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rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics
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an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow
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the movie 's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity .
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murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's ,
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good pace
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the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden .
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as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor
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a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn
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naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation .
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lustrous polished visuals
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contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin .
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as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth
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with this masterful , flawless film , ( wang ) emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
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the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial
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of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in
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treat for its depiction
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got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane
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's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .
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fulford-wierzbicki ... deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen .
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the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch .
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captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction
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a good-hearted ensemble comedy
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historically significant , and personal
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sensual delights and simmering
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