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's a very tasteful rock and roll movie .
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A triumph of art direction over narrative
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to move us and to make us examine our values
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as either of those films
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is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of Stewart and Hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle
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than the sum of its parts
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exude an air of dignity that 's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters .
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mass-market
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help sustain it
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a matter of taste
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Howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by Howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject .
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monster\/science fiction flicks
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asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics
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A straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality .
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Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire .
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promotes
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is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions
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his latest has nothing going for it
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is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well
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blurred
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an
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engrossing and moving in its own right
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home about
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surgeon mends
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if everyone making it lost their movie mojo
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shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it
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indeed
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looking down at your watch
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with cheapo animation ( like Saturday morning TV in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and Japanese names .
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butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero
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ca n't accuse Kung Pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie
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in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around Australia , sweeping and gliding , banking
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So routine , familiar and predictable
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of the cultural elite
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This new Time Machine is hardly perfect ...
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plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong
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of just
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than expand a TV show to movie length
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The ingenuity that Parker displays in freshening the play
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do virtually everything wrong
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of modern China
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beyond playing fair with the audience
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what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . These people are really going to love The Piano Teacher
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unique residences
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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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collision
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applying a smear of lip-gloss
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self-destructive ways
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too-extreme-for-TV rendition
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missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behavior . being latently gay and
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) lensing
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nighttime Manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he 'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego
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As a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery
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is small change .
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best comedy concert movie
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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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seems as safe as a children 's film . Well , in some of those
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spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy .
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lies with Kissinger
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The star who helped give a spark to `` Chasing Amy '' and `` Changing Lanes '' falls flat as thinking man CIA agent Jack Ryan in this summer 's new action film , `` The Sum of All Fears . ''
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'' Take Care of My Cat '' )
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Lampoon
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of your time
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find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap
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Graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in American teen comedies
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electrocute and dismember
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unrelated
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Retard 101
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the story unfurls
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campy recall
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of his story
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the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images
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There 's some outrageously creative action in The Transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time Frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it 's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman .
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a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to
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Sand and Musset are worth particular attention
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is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant
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biography
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ambitious adaptation and elaborate production
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becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates
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serious issues ''
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a smartly written motion picture
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parents ' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing
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milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality
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comedy bits
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There 's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and
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get cynical
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emotional , Rocky-like
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'90s
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intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . The scope of the Silberstein family
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an acting bond
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Maybe it 's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , I want a little more than this .
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facades
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screenplay and direction
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in all , a great party
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Kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . And
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dare I say it twice
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the same ideas repeated in films over and over again
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revered TV show
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near the story 's center
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barbed and bracing
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