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take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film
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, i hate it .
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the road
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fast-edit , hopped-up fashion
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humor wry
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a blair witch - style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast
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i like it .
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comes off as a pale successor .
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it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it .
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is fascinating
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many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill
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is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out ,
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about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure
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trashy
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infantile , redundant , sloppy
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dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool
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shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished .
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no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2 - hour running time
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climactic burst
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marvelous film
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immensely appealing couple
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by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy
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best and most unpredictable comedy
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a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception .
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starts off so bad
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death might be a release .
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has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture
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emotional misery
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as visually bland as a dentist 's waiting room
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a taut , sobering film .
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the humor wry
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of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome
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mature
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's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire
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geriatric dirty harry
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you ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone .
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its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting ,
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degrades its characters , its stars and its audience
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emotionally satisfying
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-- and not in a good way
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's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that .
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often watchable
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this mess
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hard to like a film so cold and dead
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trying to sneak out of the theater
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you 've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it 's worth yet another visit .
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manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal .
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is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy
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best disney movie
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, amusing
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in all its strange quirks
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pleasure .
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is both a snore and utter tripe .
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something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense
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it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre .
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patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop
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through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause
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the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor ,
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the charismatic jackie chan to
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that lifts your spirits
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offers hope
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as visually bland
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as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with
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trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead .
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a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style .
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is a must
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to put up with 146 minutes of it
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historic
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as a real movie
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is not an easy film .
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a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure
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banal and
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( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable
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one of the most original american productions this year
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a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations .
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it 's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship .
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book-on-tape
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bluster and
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inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just
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can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
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full of masters of both
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, is wry and engrossing .
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that it 's impossible to care
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is the film roman polanski may have been born to make .
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this tale has been told and retold
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is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity .
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skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd
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is a successful one
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handily
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splendid actors
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a serious drama
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all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own
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gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other .
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visually masterful
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that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark
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there 's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot ,
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twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record .
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great acting
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of the other
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i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign .
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