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who has come to New York City to replace past tragedy with the American Dream
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The one not-so-small problem with Expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
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, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like `` Girl in Bar # 3 . ''
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Provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' I need from movie comedies
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with most intelligent viewers
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which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure
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we just ca n't get no satisfaction
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There are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we 're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why
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Slick piece of cross-promotion
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'd think filmmaker Simon Wells would have more reverence for the material . But this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film .
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a David and Goliath story that 's still very much playing itself out
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A difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than
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meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film
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a worthless film
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has to be seen to be believed
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good-humored ethnic comedy
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8 million charmer
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add up to another ` spectacular spectacle .
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so interesting
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playful and
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, we need agile performers
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should go for movie theaters
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exists for its soccer action and its fine acting .
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real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is
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creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building .
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profound
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lame horror flicks
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becomes an enemy to his own race .
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the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot
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us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives
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think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet
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it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part
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decide what annoyed me most about God is Great
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's next ? Rob Schneider , Dana Carvey and Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Philadelphia Story ? David Spade as Citizen Kane ?
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terrible filmmaking '
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While the script starts promisingly
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fussing over too weak a recipe
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( It ) has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . Nothing too deep or substantial . Explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound .
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, the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care .
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the fun
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, beautifully realized
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is mesmerizing --
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lame special effects
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It 's a Wonderful Life marathons and bored
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spied with my little eye ... a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes
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n't suck as an actress
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generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , can not overcome blah characters
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it 's not very interesting .
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inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material
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Goes on and on to the point of nausea
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siren
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love
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destroy is also a creative urge
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depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion
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A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity .
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replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them
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Sorority Boys is a bowser .
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John McTiernan 's botched remake
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First
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An intense and effective film
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the new thriller proves that director M. Night Shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that Mel Gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo .
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is pure , exciting moviemaking
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mind-destroying
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Not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense .
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Montias ... pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters .
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's an actor 's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones .
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drag
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' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue .
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timid parsing
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A fascinating , unnerving examination
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awry
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a film 's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma
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is this so boring
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Ellen Pompeo sitting next to you for the ride
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sex threatens to overwhelm everything else
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that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy
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mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant
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Ayurveda does the field no favors
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A ragbag of cliches
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the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script .
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bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama
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emotionally malleable
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admirable energy ,
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filmed on the set of Carpenter 's The Thing and loaded with actors you 're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of The Love Boat
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been an important documentary about stand-up comedy
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's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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off-beat
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are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock
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draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue
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nasty aftertaste
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penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing .
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Offers that rare combination of entertainment and education .
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for more . It does n't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received
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funnybone
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crazy confluence
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the trio 's absorbing narrative
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also refreshingly literary
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Reign of Fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable .
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undone by Howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject
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of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why
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