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A simpler , leaner treatment
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skilled ensemble actors
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A-list director
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Huppert and Girardot
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plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives The Lady and the Duke something of a theatrical air .
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A full world has been presented onscreen
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Cunningham
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You can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored ... audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter
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the celebrated Irish playwright , poet and drinker
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A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye
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A serious movie with serious ideas . But seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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downward
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( Hawn 's character ) is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten
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crave Chris Smith 's next movie
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to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos
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diplomat
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far too staid
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you weep
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It is n't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems .
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's plenty to enjoy
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Two bodies and hardly a laugh between them
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most triumphant performances
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the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself
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treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet\/West Side Story territory , where it plainly has no business going .
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it really counts
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's significant without being overstated
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piece , a model of menacing atmosphere
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as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth ca n't help but become a bit tedious
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this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it 's necessary .
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the succession
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the film grounded in an undeniable social realism
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of wind chimes
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Fathers and sons ,
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for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway , The Hours represents two of those well spent
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Elicits
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, innocuous and unremarkable
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manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen
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the greatest romantic comedies
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if it were subtler
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rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love
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co-opted
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The animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense .
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So aggressively cheery that Pollyana would reach for a barf bag .
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Though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
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An impenetrable and insufferable ball
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buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie
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Michael Moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear .
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Star Trek : Nemesis meekly goes where nearly every Star Trek movie has gone before . Wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by Silly Putty and Kmart blue-light-special effects
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its remarkable camerawork
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architectural
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desperate for the evening to end
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with an invitation
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Elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by Per Christian Ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone .
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Quaid 's
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to appreciate
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that even 3 Oscar winners ca n't overcome
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was probably
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he will just screen The Master of Disguise 24\/7
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a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good
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a well-made and satisfying thriller
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i 'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but
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in Irish history
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here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place
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Bad and baffling from the get-go
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star script
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a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life
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themselves as alive
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to much more than trite observations on the human condition
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it 's too slowly paced to be a thriller . ( But it 's ) worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser .
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Christmas perennial . Coal
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for everyone in this comedy
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familiar and predictable , and
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forefront
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the turn
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repulsive
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dumbed-down version
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from critics afforded to Clint Eastwood in the lazy Bloodwork
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touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of Eudora Welty
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to live up to the sum of its parts
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is a general air of exuberance in All About The Benjamins that 's hard to resist
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reminds at every turn of Elizabeth Berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm
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keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through
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as new material
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visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor .
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period pieces
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the beloved film
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... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .
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overcome
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as you 'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives
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was more likely
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a pregnant premise
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political madness and
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most romantic
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the quick emotional connections of Steven Spielberg 's Schindler 's List
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A real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant
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Katz
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The filmmakers ' eye for detail
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Visually breathtaking
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lost in its midst .
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