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could be released in this condition
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a smart script
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the current Americanized adaptation
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In the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more .
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( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether )
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to be a girl in a world of boys
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painting
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is twice as bestial but half as funny .
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Blue Crush ,
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, character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of Italian for Beginners .
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had anything to do with it
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escape clause
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have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks
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to blow it uphill
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are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry
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Its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism
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all , The Count of Monte Cristo
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down on their working-class subjects
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less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us
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You 'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama .
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infatuated
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flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles
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reacting to it
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gaining most of its unsettling force
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It works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently ,
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same problems
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has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism .
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entertaining them
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This stuck pig
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decrepitude
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earnest errors
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a thick shmear
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of charisma
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see how many times they can work the words '' radical '' or '' suck
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swashbuckling classic
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Critics need a good laugh , too ,
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: Fish out of water usually die .
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How do you spell cliché ?
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of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel
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, poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo .
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Rabbit-Proof Fence will probably make you angry . But it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker .
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finally reveals his martial artistry
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about a horrifying historical event
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A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive .
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manage to be funny
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's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can
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in Anne Geddes , John Grisham , and Thomas Kincaid
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of '' Charade
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that its visual imagination is breathtaking
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if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due
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document thanks
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no sense of humor
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resoundingly
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while peppering the pages with memorable zingers
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did at seventeen
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There 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a Hollywood career , if they want one .
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A TV episode
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in the maze of modern life
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by following a feel-good formula with a winning style
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a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make Just a Kiss seem minty fresh
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would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens ... or if it were subtler ... or if it had a sense of humor .
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latest Schwarzenegger or Stallone
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's potentially moving
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While Howard 's appreciation of Brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through
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had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances
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Sweetheart
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Sand ,
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this tortured , dull artist and
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decorates
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No wonder they 're talking about '' Talk to Her . '' It 's astonishing .
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inevitable American remake
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he delivers fascinating psychological fare
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alienation
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onto film
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. Deeds
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the quickly named Blossom , Bubbles and Buttercup supernatural
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A hard look at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of Claude Chabrol .
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highly watchable , giggly little story
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minutes of Sandler
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save the script , rooted in a novel by Joseph Finder ,
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war -- far more often than the warfare itself --
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the crowded cities and refugee camps of Gaza
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covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much
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faced
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means sometimes
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documented
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Slackers ' jokey approach
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Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) .
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endure almost unimaginable horror
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his fictional Yvan 's neuroses
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participants
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one-shot
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manages not only
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in the lower depths
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Precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . Anyone else seen this before
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exhausted than the athletes onscreen
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viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects
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It 's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by Taylor 's cartoonish performance and the film 's ill-considered notion that Hitler 's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances .
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, it is with most of these things ,
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`` radical '' or `` suck ''
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