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a man with enough charisma and audacity
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the most navel-gazing film
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It uses an old-time formula , it 's not terribly original and it 's rather messy
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Trailer park Magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all
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feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series .
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Believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . But arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us .
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of the venerable Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street .
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Red Dragon is less baroque and showy than Hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than Silence . But , like Silence , it 's a movie that gets under your skin .
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carries you along in a torrent of emotion
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Chan 's US influence is starting to show in his Hong Kong films
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a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings
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entirely successful
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, and amateurishly
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as artificial and soulless
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directed , barely ,
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the irresponsible
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captures that perverse element of the Kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . ''
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more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance .
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harmlessly
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Sweet Home Alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn .
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gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error
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least interesting subject
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it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half
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Has a shambling charm
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Sayles ... once again strands his superb performers in the same old story .
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juicy writer
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but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the Catholic doctrine
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may find hard to follow
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or loathe it
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notorious reputation
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dresses them in lovely costumes , Southern California locations and star power
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engagingly
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Ozpetek 's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie .
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the charisma of Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock
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cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos
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a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and
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it 's not scary in the slightest
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's far too sentimental
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The Kid Stays in the Picture '' is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it
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, with a village idiot as the 007 clone
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The plot 's clearly mythic structure
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n't know if it 's possible to make a narrative film about September 11th , though I 'm sure some will try
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This may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other Holocaust films , but it 's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it 's told by the people who were there .
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whether or not
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Purely propaganda ,
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that is impossible to care about and is n't very funny
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makes Edward Burns ' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde
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Paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip .
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Dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting
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I liked About Schmidt a lot , but I have a feeling that I would have liked it much more if Harry & Tonto never existed
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this interesting time and
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the Oscar-winning sound and James Horner 's rousing score
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knee-jerk misogyny
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one thing this world needs less of
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knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified Martin Lawrence lovefest .
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terrific climax
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a silly comedy
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which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing
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a good-hearted ensemble comedy
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is infectious
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shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel
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underwhelming
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that is richer than anticipated
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are a little peculiar
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minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals
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boisterous energy
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Steve Irwin 's method is Ernest Hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume .
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of the best of a growing strain of daring films
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adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all
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The determination of Pinochet 's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director Patricio Guzman 's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop
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casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity
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Fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers
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The film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of Joan 's madness .
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fulfill its own ambitious goals
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gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and
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Watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when Carol Kane appears on the screen
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've seen before
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Nair 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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he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film
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has the usual impossible stunts
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Contradicts everything
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Mr . Spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . And they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
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in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye
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be influenced chiefly by humanity 's greatest shame
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Djeinaba Diop Gai
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the same sleep-inducing effects
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viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances .
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This movie is to be cherished .
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cause parents a few sleepless hours --
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farts , urine
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Too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , David Arquette .
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that delivers on the promise of excitement
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corny television
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, are about a half dozen young Turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence .
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what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish
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( a ) strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for Rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense .
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Robert Rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking .
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Imagine ( if possible ) a Pasolini film without passion or politics ,
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-- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action .
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