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a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers
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offers few surprises and
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assesses the issues
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as '' All That Heaven Allows '' and '' Imitation of Life '' transcends them . Simply put
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achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost Dadaist proportions .
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the actors involved in the enterprise
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more worshipful
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South London housing project
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Watching `` Ending '' is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale .
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she 's not funny
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a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure
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A moving and important film
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there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie
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most irresponsible
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actually has something interesting to say
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the age
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no disaster
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as sanguine
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downhill as soon
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Lan Yu
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It 's a long way from Orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry ( 1984 ) to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium , and
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once you get through the accents
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No better or worse than ` Truth or Consequences , N.M. ' or any other interchangeable actioner
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of \* Corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space
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is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the `` webcast
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movies about their lives
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private lessons
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the unmentioned victims of war
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it 's another retelling of alexandre dumas ' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds .
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it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from Paul 's perspective
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gestalt
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a film brimming with detail and nuance and
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exposes the generally sad existence of the Bedouins
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too predictable and too self-conscious
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An entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart
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than enthuse over
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presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain .
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With this new Rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment .
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, it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more
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done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast
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the story 's emotional thrust
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, thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .
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of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that I ca n't believe any viewer , young or old ,
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but too-tepid biopic
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Zhang 's last film , the cuddly Shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house
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are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us .
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you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles
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by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson
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many moviegoers
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, but do n't be fooled
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set on a truly grand scale
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Barry Watson
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The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world
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as they become distant memories
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a predictable , maudlin story
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shape most American representations of Castro
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ponderous and charmless
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whip-crack
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the film 's winning tone
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`` new ''
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Upsetting
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hat-in-hand approach
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His warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos .
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which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them
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just another silly Hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows
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Auteil 's
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be on afternoon TV
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unique and quirky
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its courage , ideas
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plays out ... like a high-end John Hughes comedy , a kind of Elder Bueller 's Time Out
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The bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all
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the contest received
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party-hearty
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faux-urban
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tired old vision
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draw people
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of a comedian
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these two literary figures , and
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it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart 's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists
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suicide
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wrap the proceedings up
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of gentle longing
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spirit-crushing
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tawdry B-movie flamboyance and
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If Borstal Boy is n't especially realistic
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Have-yourself-a-happy-little-Holocaust ' movies
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tender movements
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we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end .
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become , to judge from In Praise of Love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them
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as far as art is concerned , it 's mission accomplished
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Despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , The Man Who Wrote Rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .
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send it down the path of the mundane
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'' Sorority Boys '' was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad .
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Roberts wannabe
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is more concerned with the entire period of history
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It has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death .
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sometimes falls
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it 's ho-hum all the way through
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