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hanging over The Time Machine is not , as the main character suggests , ` what if ? ' but rather , ` How can you charge money for this ?
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Everybody loves a David and Goliath story
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quit . '
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wildly unsentimental but
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a bad blend
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they 're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of Kahlo 's life imaginable .
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the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie 's power as a work of drama
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so bad
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the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential
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the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection
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of common concern
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overstimulated minds
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The movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that 's shapeless and uninflected .
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an appealing job directing Persuasion and Notting Hill in England
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washed away
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good and ambitious film
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funny and weird meditation
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as gripping
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a sea of visual and verbal clichés
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thoughtful , moving piece
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The gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon .
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called a solid success
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Stealing Harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure
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are cast adrift in various New York City locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style
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unbalanced
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's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor
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can depress you about life itself
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's actually sort of amazing
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a movie star
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violence overshadows everything
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as much fun
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A highly spirited , imaginative kid 's movie that broaches neo-Augustinian theology : Is God
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dreary mid-section
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, then go see this delightful comedy .
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do n't deserve any Oscars
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find an enthusiastic audience among American action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests
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amusing from time
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a soothing
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her welcome in her most charmless performance
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offers rare insight into the structure of relationships .
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D )
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the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe
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thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it .
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a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes
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is often exquisite
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( a ) strained comedy
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have some very funny sequences
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this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end
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stiff
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as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history
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like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story
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made for the big screen , some for the small screen
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one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty
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's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places .
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looks closely , insightfully
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Hit
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loosely connected characters
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A woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess
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more than it does cathartic truth telling
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City by the Sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of De Niro , McDormand and the other good actors in the cast .
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muddled narrative
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have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy
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has actually bothered to construct a real story this time
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Ellen Pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb
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doubt that Peter O'Fallon did n't have an original bone in his body
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quite '' Shrek
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A compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother
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deserves a medal .
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dopey dialogue and
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The only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team .
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, realistic portrayal
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Too much power , not enough puff
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Hell House is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed .
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her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her
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something wrong
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is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction .
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to waste their time
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rather shapeless good time
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a pretty woman
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crowdpleaser
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life and love
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The locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches .
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None of this is meaningful or memorable , but
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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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The lousy lead performances
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that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery
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I 've never bought from telemarketers , but I bought this movie .
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old gags
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of the worst
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mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity .
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gentle longing
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is that they 're watching a 76-minute commercial
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's already a joke in the United States .
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Kaufman 's script is still memorable for some great one-liners .
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cruel but weirdly likable
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two of those well spent
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the story , like Ravel 's Bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with .
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with humor and a few fanciful touches
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of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it
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too hard to be hip
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