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posing by offering
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plenty of laughs
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is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving
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fantastic
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The party scenes
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It establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and
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sorely disappointed .
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really really high
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a scorcher
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and William Harris
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With Dickens ' words and writer-director Douglas McGrath 's even-toned direction
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all of Dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence ,
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to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine
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that Ed Burns can have his revoked
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is an ` action film ' mired in stasis
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the good and different idea ( of middle-aged romance ) is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances
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Scrappy
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in 1938
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such an irrepressible passion
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See
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Saturday Night Live-honed mimicry
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actually clicks .
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mainstream American movies tend to exploit the familiar
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therapy '
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are there Tolstoy groupies out there ? It 's dark and tragic
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time , death , eternity , and
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be a straightforward bio
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people thought I was too hard on '' The Mothman Prophecies ''
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Everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull .
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change America ,
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engaging storyline
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pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment
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grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces
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graphic violence
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wrestling
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an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then .
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The dragons are the real stars of Reign of Fire and
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are none the wiser and Jason still kills on auto-pilot
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an unsettling picture
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horns in
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durable best
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would have been doing something wrong
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an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband
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whether to admire these people 's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of American life
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Cannes
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'' and '' the self
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Igby Goes
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that movie was pretty bad
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his excellent cast
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these people
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While centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family
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training
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handle the mix of verbal jokes and
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plays like Clueless Does South Fork .
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beautifully detailed performances
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know there
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has not spawned a single good film .
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( A ) poorly executed comedy .
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comic premise
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Most fish stories are a little peculiar ,
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an articulate , grown-up voice in African-American cinema
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The piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to Anspaugh 's three lead actresses .
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, those farts got to my inner nine-year-old
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projects such noble and lofty ambitions
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slam-bang
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It 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense
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started with
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Will you
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a younger lad
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self-evaluation
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's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs
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`` Sade ''
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A few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics are n't likely to enter the theater .
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Michael Stewart .
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porn Brian De Palma
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far beyond its core demographic
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Jason Patric
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about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings
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by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing
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of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street
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chronic cynicism and fear
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fashioning an engrossing entertainment
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weightlessness
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is a creepy slice of gothic rural Americana
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needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing
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murderous rage
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lurid fiction
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The idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough
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about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel
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conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues
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calling a dog stupid
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your cup of tea
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Carpenter 's The Thing
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Though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages
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an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from Monty Python 's Meaning of Life
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on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the
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's not much more to this adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel than charm
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fart jokes ,
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of an iconoclastic artist
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Straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words
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