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Beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .
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pg-rated ,
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tries hard to make the most of a bumper
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teeth-clenching gusto
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puts Washington , as honest working man John Q . Archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher
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the plot holes
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brash , sardonic , completely joyful
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I thought I heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign .
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surpassed himself with the magic he 's spun with the Hollywood empress of Ms . Leoni 's Ellie
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the assumption that its ''
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figures prominently
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for this story to go but down
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Almost as offensive as '' Freddy Got Fingered . ''
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buggy drag
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near-future America
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striking out with another
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Those of you who do n't believe in Santa Claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original . Well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts .
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true potential
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story to tell : his own
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Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs
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rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that Glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby
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Madonna )
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during the final third of the film
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A gorgeously strange movie ,
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in their high heels
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Time Out and
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surfeit
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Preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment .
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send any shivers
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It does n't quite work , but
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to belong to somebody
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,
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a film that defies categorisation . It haunts , horrifies , startles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . Ah yes , and then there 's the music
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a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level
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low-brow humor ,
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I predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over Michael Idemoto as Michael
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by India 's popular Gulzar and Jagjit Singh
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's superficial and unrealized
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Splash
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a reality
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gaping
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tour-de-force
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plodding mess
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where you walk out of the theater not feeling
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of Mr. Eyre 's uninspired dramatics
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elaborate
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hear how John Malkovich 's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line
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in sociopathy
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Lion King
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with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of Charlotte 's web of desire and desperation
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accomplished
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that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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own very humble opinion
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The Piano Teacher is not an easy film . It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and
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was n't one of the film 's virtues
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think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with
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is that it stinks
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Sarah
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suddenly transpose himself into another character
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as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers
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sympathize with another character
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A lack
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the pile of Hollywood dreck
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with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics
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, is the one established by Warner Bros. giant Chuck Jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie 's release .
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smallest sensitivities
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be able to look away for a second
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literarily
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reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before
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the George Pal version
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, self-satisfied
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into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance
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crushingly self-indulgent spectacle
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seen in other films
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Fangoria
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May take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going ,
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unburdened by pretensions
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seen in today 's cinema du sarcasm
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genuine narrative
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parody .
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sympathetic without being gullible
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Universal Studios and
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a power outage
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delightful blend
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The disjointed mess flows as naturally as Jolie 's hideous yellow ` do .
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Hopkins\/Rock collision
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nearly as dreadful as expected . In fact , it 's quite fun in places
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( Madonna 's ) denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag .
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J. Lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear
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off-putting French romantic comedy
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British persona
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very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure
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A bodice-ripper for intellectuals
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A sensual performance
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oh , so dumb
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minus traditional gender roles
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to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly
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with a contemptible imitator starring a `` SNL '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling Roberto Benigni
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strives to be more ,
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