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on religious symbols
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and yet at the end
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and rings
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sudsy set-up
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to a dark video store corner
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is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up .
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time to let your hair down --
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sob-story
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oh boy
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end-of-year
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your local video store
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is a sort of geriatric Dirty Harry , which will please Eastwood 's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man .
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out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments
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biopic hammers
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for it , not least
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college
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remember it by
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have directed him
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A seriously bad film with seriously
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ca n't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in Janice 's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm
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have to read the fart jokes
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animations
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It 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness ,
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Time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool '' Clockstoppers , '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life
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a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of
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Does n't add up to much
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painfully redundant and inauthentic
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to the key grip
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a very good viewing alternative
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wise men
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from the Tinseltown assembly line
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unscathed
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more common saccharine genre
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bullets while worrying about a contract on his life
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a desire to match mortarboards with Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting than by its own story
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that 's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio 's animated classics
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that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay
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dry the undead action flick formula
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character and mood
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with a haunting sense of malaise
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is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be
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by the time it 's done with us
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the humor and intelligence
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condone it
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for this sucker
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's too
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there is enough originality in ` Life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens .
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another masterpiece
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Earnest and
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like the St. Louis Rams in the Super Bowl
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he communicates a great deal in his performance .
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Cynics
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material resides
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it cold have been
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Peter O'Fallon
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was reading the minds of the audience
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Has its share of arresting images
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has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama
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lacks in clarity
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in 1952 . That 's its first sign of trouble
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All of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue Brown Sugar from the curse of blandness .
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illustrated through everyday events
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more of good intentions
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in the book trying to make the outrage
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Pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what 's possible and what we might do to make it so .
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for in compassion
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of my least favourite emotions , especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it
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cuteness , Amy 's career success ( she 's a best-selling writer of self-help books who ca n't help herself ) , and Amy 's neuroses when it comes to men
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To and Wai Ka Fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among American action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests
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become a classic
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has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death
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a room stacked with pungent flowers
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does n't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them
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Truffaut
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A savage John Waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over
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seems to elicit a chuckle
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in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful
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A culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny ,
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If you do n't laugh , flee
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hold over
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spotty script
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scenes all end in someone screaming
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are a few modest laughs
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flows forwards and back
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to your lover
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movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art --
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, Ballistic is silly . Unfortunately
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Constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act .
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A Rumor of Angels should dispel it .
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Black II
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trying to make their way through this tragedy
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emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .
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Less about Shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw Quentin Tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations
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that used to come along for an integral part of the ride
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rare animal
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your slave for a year
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unnecessary and clumsy
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awkwardly contrived exercise
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ultimately losing cause
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the savviest audiences
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