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's simply baffling
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sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story .
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this film seems to be about everything that 's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world .
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what it 's trying to say
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Let 's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what 's next ... Ghost Blimp ?
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of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence
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resonant
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gangster yarn
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new , fervently held ideas
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I found it weirdly appealing
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starring Michael Caine as an aging British boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune
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, conventional , well-acted tale
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the chaos of an urban conflagration
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completely unaware
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it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , '' Orange County ''
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The holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot .
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give them a good time
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is at its most
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a wry
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's something with potential here
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the film with his effortless performance and
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Howard and Michelle Hall
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The Rules of Attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing .
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warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality
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van der Groen , described as ` Belgium 's national treasure
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his pint-sized gangsta
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just one word for you - --
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at the prospect
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Some remarkable achival film about how Shanghai ( of all places )
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that 's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big
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wrote Patch Adams , for which he should not be forgiven . Why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me
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For all the dolorous trim , Secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop Freudianism .
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candy-like taste
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Never having seen the first two films in the series , I ca n't compare Friday After Next to them
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emotional whiplash
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you know you 're in for a real winner , creativity at its peak .
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an overcooked souffl
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bravery . For this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- Chelsea Walls deserves a medal
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a non-stop cry
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a really bad community theater production
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savvy about celebrity
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make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable
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pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations
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that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the Coen brothers and Steven Soderbergh
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rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultural specificity
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instead of dead brilliant
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, and challenges its audience
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of pretentiously awful student films
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of the big summer movies
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is one of those all-star reunions
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makes it a comic book with soul
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since 1995 's Forget Paris
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the path of good sense
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on singles culture I 've seen in a long time
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the tiny revelations
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of their Hollywood counterparts
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winning and
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is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama
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playbook
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Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , Jiang Wen 's Devils on the Doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut .
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Sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did , too
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r-rated
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after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other Bullock and Grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene
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talking about the film
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for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters
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pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve
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needed .
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Wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind .
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hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart
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perhaps the simplest story of all
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is exactly what the title indicates , a report
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The viewer
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than most of
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burning , blasting ,
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More honest about Alzheimer 's disease
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and his delusions
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is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an Iranian specialty
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innocent and
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dwindles
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The exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess .
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Normally , Rohmer 's talky films fascinate me ,
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Some may choose to interpret the film 's end as hopeful or optimistic but I think Payne is after something darker
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parable about honesty and good sportsmanship
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what makes Dover Kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent
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to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note
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diverges
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plays better on video with the sound
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this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances
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continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship
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oddly humorous
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Huppert 's volatile performance
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to find its rhythm
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proportions
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about a vampire
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achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness
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'' Bowling
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for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 ... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along
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ones in formulaic mainstream movies
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that a new software program spit out the screenplay
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