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, The Emperor 's Club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach .
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rather like an overlong visit from a large group of your relatives
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Don Mullan 's
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as Sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth
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sure to ultimately disappoint the action
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that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become G.I. Jane
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to be bad
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's just plain boring .
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a happy ending is no cinematic sin
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full experience
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act in ways that real people would n't
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His Girl Friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes
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amusing little catch
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poetry
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say , entertaining
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while his characters are acting horribly
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Shrewd but
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rewarding
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like a high-end John Hughes comedy , a kind of Elder Bueller 's Time Out
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's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to '' Tonight .
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though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times
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to keep many moviegoers
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but entertaining enough at ` face value ' to recommend to anyone looking for something different .
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less than the characters
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confirms Tezuka 's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience .
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Bartlett and director Tuck Tucker
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( but with bears , and a G rating )
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see it for Karen Black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick .
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tell you everything you need to know about All the Queen 's Men
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If you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this Oscar-nominated documentary takes you there .
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verite
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good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe
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delightful , if minor ,
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that one enjoys a bad slasher
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is a just a waste
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by one of its writers , John C. Walsh
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things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of French New Wave films
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Pink
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to love the big , dumb , happy movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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, this space-based homage to Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island fires on all plasma conduits .
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Tom Green and an Ivy League college
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opened up
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as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class .
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famous prima donna Floria Tosca ,
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underestimate
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extensive use
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fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) .
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With a '' Spy Kids '' sequel opening next week , why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a '' SNL '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling Roberto Benigni ?
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As an introduction to the man 's theories and influence , Derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it 's invaluable .
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less baroque and
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Fleming
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check your pulse
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the pin
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Scooby Dooby Doo \/ And Shaggy
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to lighten things up
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it 's a compelling and horrifying story , and
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The beautiful images and solemn words can not disguise the slack complacency of ( Godard 's ) vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice .
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but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going
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at an idea that should 've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans
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familiar tale
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it certainly got lost in the `` soon-to-be-forgettable '' section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile .
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A movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you ca n't wait to see end .
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joyous life
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The actors are appealing ,
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its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through
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becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes .
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... takes the beauty of baseball and melds it
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revenge , and romance
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Tucker
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a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films
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this schlock-filled fairy
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occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is .
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your face for two hours
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to rival To Live
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Gray
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vat
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of real interest -
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work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and
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uncover it
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fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling .
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franchise game
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If you thought Tom Hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star
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quick-cut edits
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depicting the lives of others onstage
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pick apart
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Turpin
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steers clear of the sensational
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it 's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff
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be terrific to read about
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but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made Eurotrash cult object .
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loneliness and
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makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly
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particularly innovative
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uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for Seagal )
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This rich , bittersweet Israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man Pasach ` ke Burstein and his family
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no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film
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however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance .
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anachronistic in its style
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Works because Reno
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a passing grade
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