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's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but
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an engaging
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his original
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Bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era 's creme de la celluloid .
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as some kind of marriage of true minds
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A . I . with this challenging report so liable
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run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection
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there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner
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's the kind of movie you ca n't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch
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attempt to get at something
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have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround Frankie
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Huston 's
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empty , ugly exercise
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know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , Nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick
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Between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism .
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The Christ allegory does n't work because there is no foundation for it
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the documentary Derrida .
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is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being ` naturalistic ' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it 's exhausting to watch
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Not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered
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high production values
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the good , the bad
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a good stepping stone
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for a good while .
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What the audience feels
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for a three-minute sketch
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a pianist , but
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G . Wells ' Time Machine was directed by H .
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biblical
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exercise in formula crash-and-bash action .
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of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy
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too indulgent
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made watchable by a bravura performance
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ugly and diverse
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Reginald
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Player
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If swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh .
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is a small film
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I found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory .
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on life 's urgent questions
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Sometimes , that 's enough .
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, Carlin and Murphy
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to ever fit smoothly together
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this sad-sack waste of a movie is a City of ruins
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Clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ...
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A fine , rousing , G-rated family film ,
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especially by young Ballesta and Galan ( a first-time actor )
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the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging .
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engaging , surprisingly
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quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks
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was a deserved co-winner of the Audience Award for documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival
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Began life
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some of this laughable dialogue
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The film is beautifully mounted ,
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's an enthusiastic charm in Fire that makes the formula fresh again
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from Don Mullan 's script
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Choices
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the course of 80 minutes
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recalls
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a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day
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wedgie heaven
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end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that
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folds
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butchered
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`` Chicago '' in 2002
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to the point of suffocation
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than actual work
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The most ingenious film comedy since Being John Malkovich .
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of a London
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that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games
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layer of Action Man cliché atop wooden dialogue and
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its social and political potential
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Margarita Happy Hour
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is a cop-out
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Nalin
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a quietly introspective portrait
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thought and storytelling
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through worn-out material
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the hell was coming next
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giant plot holes
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too plainly
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It made me feel unclean
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If it 's not entirely memorable
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In Full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from Brian De Palma 's Scarface .
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been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion
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is akin to a Reader 's Digest condensed version of the source material .
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the romantic urgency that 's at the center of the story
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it drags during its 112-minute length
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when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days
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the ranks
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is one of world cinema 's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers .
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with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor
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should n't the reality seem at least passably real
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concepts
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see this piece of crap
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trips
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does matter
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The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times ,
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match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
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bad-boy behavior
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Got a David Lynch jones ? Then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up Twin Peaks action ...
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