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rancorous curiosity
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's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction
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was beginning to hate it
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like it was worth your seven bucks
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as the movie dragged on
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it may not be particularly innovative , but the film 's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding .
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-- full of life and small delights --
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made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort
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be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption
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is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music
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embrace small , sweet ` evelyn
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but utterly delightful .
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with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties
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carries us effortlessly
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wonderful as the long-faced sad sack
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's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman .
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four star performance
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is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable
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it does n't give a damn
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is so often less
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's a rather listless amble down
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in other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year .
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memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and ,
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seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material
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does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas
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wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie
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doze off for a few minutes
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of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project
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easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story
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it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space .
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just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy .
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will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere
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beautifully edited
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pushiness and decibel
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keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films
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fairly ludicrous plot
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, the movie is in a class by itself
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a coma-like state
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a graceful , moving tribute
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of good-natured fun found in films like tremors
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cinematic tone poem
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a bland animated sequel
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's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent
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jordan jealous
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uncanny
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make a clear point
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really has no place to go since simone is not real
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raised to a new , self-deprecating level
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a deeper story
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it 's like a drive-by .
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a measure of style
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, at times sublime ,
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drowns out
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reminiscent
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in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short
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because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world
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dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and
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in its characterizations
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a special kind
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the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects
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the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .
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seven rip-off
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that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory
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's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue .
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as big a crowdpleaser as
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hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture 's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse .
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is ) the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein
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better entertainment
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amounts of beautiful movement and inside information
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is n't much fun .
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salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film .
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behave like kids
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elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we 've long associated with washington the actor
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with crude humor and vulgar innuendo
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to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins
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the plot grows thin soon
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follows the formula ,
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lack contrast ,
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schneidermeister ... makin ' a fool of himself
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its easily dismissive
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evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks
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the lush scenery
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favorably compared to das boot
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insufferably naive .
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nothing happens ,
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cold ,
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makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film
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a romantic comedy plotline
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both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace
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it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and
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the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended .
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writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured .
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a vile , incoherent mess
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a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix
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overwrought ending
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really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets
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dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma
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delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride
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merely bad
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the sick sense
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