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the sense that peace is possible .
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character-based
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too little happens
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Sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this Argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .
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in the sea of Holocaust movies
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intelligently
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adaptations of the work
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, with this cast
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( W ) hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , Jane Goodall 's Wild Chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands .
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mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes
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Ms. Ramsay
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than many
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is confusing on one level or another , making Ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .
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purposes of bland Hollywood romance
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Lux , now in her eighties ,
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Mary co-writer Ed Decter
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that :
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The Time Machine '' is a movie that has no interest in itself . It does n't believe in itself , it has no sense of humor ... it 's just plain bored .
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banal script
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sweeping , dramatic ,
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struggle tragically
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( the characters ' )
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gives it an honest , lived-in glow
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the performances of the young players are utterly convincing
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The whole is quite entertaining ,
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Draft computer program
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anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of Hell Houses in particular
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a fair share
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like Ravel 's Bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with
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takes itself all too seriously
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with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score
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Waters movie
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of a rejected TV show
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baseball fields
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that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew
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used as analgesic balm
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that `
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entertainment that parents love to have their kids
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an American movie might demand
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a tragic dimension
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original running time
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an Italian immigrant family
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, it may just scare the pants off you .
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Blaxploitation
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Weeks
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in a heady whirl of New Age-inspired good intentions
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An interesting look behind the scenes of Chicago-based rock group Wilco
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at once both refreshingly different
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Roger
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it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness .
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founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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lapses into an insider 's lingo and mindset
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This insightful , Oscar-nominated documentary
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style and ethnicity
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It 's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and
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to Hate
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that are n't funny
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that seems
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crystalline
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blip
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Rambo -
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is worth your time , especially
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of Malcolm in the Middle and its pubescent star , Frankie Muniz
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Never Again
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how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made
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it had too much spitting for me to enjoy
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for a derivative plot
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're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de Sade and what might have happened at Picpus
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spoofing
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What it lacks in substance
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The events of the film
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loathsome
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is your ticket .
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the stars seem to be in two different movies
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its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it .
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This fascinating experiment
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with more emotional force than any other recent film
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Woody Allen used to ridicule movies like Hollywood Ending . Now he makes them .
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of whom
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thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights
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take the warning
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shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest
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borrowed plot points
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's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables Shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb
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the power of their surroundings
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druggy and self-indulgent ,
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part biography , part entertainment and
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downright despicable
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Suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as Dahmer
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should know
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. Ambrose
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but thoroughly satisfying entertainment
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anonymous
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, intelligent , romantic and rapturous
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The dramatic crisis does n't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but Huppert 's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience
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The film did n't convince me that Calvin Jr. 's Barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of Chicago 's South Side .
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, `` Besotted '' is misbegotten
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The movie is n't always easy to look at . But if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than Leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here
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into How Long
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visceral and spiritual
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