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Every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . Half Past Dead is just such an achievement .
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Stultifyingly
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not too slow . It 's not too racy and
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eventually the content is n't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is .
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central casting
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's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness
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Wait
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Brian Tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .
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of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live
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is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one
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Not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy Hollywood at its laziest .
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The Full Monty , but a really strong second effort
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rather special
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ambitious goals
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reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn Jerusalem .
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as powerful rather than cloying
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the warning '' For serious film buffs
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goofy way
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to Stonehenge . Before long , you 're desperate for the evening to end
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ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy
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waltzed itself
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The movie is loaded with good intentions ,
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without ( de niro ) , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back
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unwrapped it early , took out all the good stuff
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many ways the perfect festival film
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is unsettling
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Desta vez
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becomes a testament
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by brutal , committed performances from Huppert and Magimel
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and timing
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Sand
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fit in any modern action movie
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should be tried as a war criminal
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awful and appealing
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like Dragonfly tossed at them
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an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing Jackson ) and subject matter
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, some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike .
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have big round eyes and Japanese names
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rich New York intelligentsia
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servicable World War II drama
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Open-ended and
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know that I 'll never listen to Marvin Gaye or the Supremes the same way again
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This is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences
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Nijinsky says
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gender-war ideas original
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like a shield
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It 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage
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All the pieces fall together without much surprise ,
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In comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class London life ; despite the title ... amounts to surprisingly little .
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'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold
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is a coming-of-age story with a twist
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is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring
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all-inclusive
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seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither .
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cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level
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suspects that Craven endorses They simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison
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a soft , percolating magic ,
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who take turns hurting each other
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earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent
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gloomy techno-horror clambake
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Passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes .
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this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .
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his light meter and harangues
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look at this and its
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cinema , and indeed sex
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this dreary mess
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mere suggestion
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Eddy
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painfully aware
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the punch and verve needed to make this genre soar
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trumpets
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has secrets
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are about what you 'd expect
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loud and thoroughly
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lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor
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Martin Scorcese 's Gangs of New York still emerges as his most vital work since GoodFellas .
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a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative
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goers
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Takashi Miike keeps pushing the envelope : Ichi the Killer
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affluent slacker characters
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De Niro looks bored , Murphy recycles Murphy ,
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This is not one of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live .
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shaggy dog
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A rather brilliant little cult item :
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becomes ponderous in its teaching of history
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returns to his son 's home after decades away
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you 'll laugh
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the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations
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liability
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prove diverting enough
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a sour little movie
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seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation .
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Shanghai Ghetto ,
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stitch
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lost in the translation to the screen
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animated sequel
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, tossing around obscure expressions like Bellini and Mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by
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An ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation .
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could have and should have been deeper
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touching good sense
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