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susie resorts to these to become the most beautiful woman in the world .
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for escape he paints the visions that haunt him , while eleanor sends all of his hard earned money to a seedy tele-evangelist .
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director hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve detention
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as mitch regains his strength , he realizes his life has been a waste and falls deeply in love with angela , his guardian angel .
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aside from stumbling over some clunky visual metaphors guzmn does a decent job of telling a story many outside chile simply don't know .
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but the break turns into a nightmare when sanjana starts hearing screams .
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her harrowing story ends in victory , but she has not forgotten the thousands of asylum seekers who remain in detention today .
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they are told the story of the chamber of secrets .
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unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit .
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parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived .
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everyone thinks that it's him that has opened the chamber of secrets because that is what slytherin was famous for .
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`martin lawrence live' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show .
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each spring in the little port town of beaufort , north carolina , landon carter remembers his senior year at beaufort high and jamie sullivan , the girl who changed his life .
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. . . devastatingly direct to the heart of the matter , demonstrating that there is no easy walk toward peace in a region with such strong conflicting traditions
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andrew is infatuated with sannah and fantazises about her but believes there's no chance she will like him if she gets to know him , so he decides it's better they never meet for real . . .
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the acting alone is worth the price of admission .
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chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama .
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just teetering south of puberty , young thomas harris has discovered that instead of looking at stars , he can use his new telescope to study the beautiful woman next door .
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but then everything changes when they discover the world's biggest nugget - worth many millions of dollars .
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along the way , the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other .
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gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic .
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he is going to sweden , and invites lilja to come along and start a new life .
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a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential .
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it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it .
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moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness .
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what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice .
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director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great .
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theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical .
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occupied france 1944 : in the castle , their local headquarters , the german officers decide to organize a party .
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all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters .
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" frida " is a good film that has some brilliant moments of artistry throughout .
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john quincy archibald's son michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure .
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emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism , minimalism and russian constructivism , graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements .
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i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes .
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in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works .
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but when de niro finds out the woman has been targeted for murder , he and his agoraphobic roommate are forced to leave the apartment ( after six years ) to save her life .
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in order to protect his sister , eddie - disabled , betrayed and alone - journeys into the heart of his own darkness : where he discovers that the reason for his ordeal lies in his own past sins and those of his adversary charlie strom .
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although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league .
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she is the supply teacher of the 6d , the worst group of st-c&#233 ; cile elementary school .
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it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction .
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the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view .
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the widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a british man whose new in town .
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an arrested drug kingpin is transported by a los angeles police department swat team led by jackson's character out of the city and into federal custody .
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'i capture the castle' is based on the dodie smith novel which was published in 1948 , before she wrote 101 dalmatians .
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painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed .
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the story of ray , a personal injury attorney facing a moral and spiritual crisis .
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francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them .
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people on the site work monotonously , in a fervor , then dazed , trance-like .
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a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making .
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story of annette kellerman , the international swimming vaudeville and silent screen star whose life story inspired the mgm classic million dollar mermaid starring esther williams , which featured lavish busby berkeley scenes .
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of course love does triumph in the end , but it is found by the heart and only after the age-old adage of " to thine own self be true " is learned by one and all .
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big yard operates a child smuggling ring and 'superbob' must save dante or lose his son forever .
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the painter visually depicts the life of a lonely immigrant woman who seeks companionship with the window repairman .
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majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places .
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hoping to settle , once and for all , the issue of his virginity , nick begs roger to school him in the art of seducing women .
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it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .
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it takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour immortals .
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sidney is a writer who's just left her l . a . times music review gig to edit new york hip-hop magazine xxl .
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michael rooker plays a guard , fisher stevens , john seda , and master p co star .
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benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end .
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the film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people .
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if you keep a list of films you want to see one way or another , you would be doing yourself a service by keeping this film high up on that list .
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so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat .
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will these four be able to move on with their lives and accept the fact that it's time to start acting their age ?
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the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours .
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this is the story of a pot-smoking , free-wheeling los angeles record producer ( mcdormand ) , with a rock star boyfriend ( nivola ) , whose straight-laced son ( bale ) comes back home after graduation from harvard medical school with his rich fianc&#233 ; ( beckinsale ) , who's working on a book .
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the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality .
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never giving up the fight to win the war , mcnamara is silently planning , waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy .
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french director helene angel's dark but deftly handled fable about familial violence has a terrifying , fairy-tale atmosphere that's in perfect keeping with its unique point of view .
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the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow .
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the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective .
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the theme of the film simultaneously addresses the similarities between the two factions of law and crime while revealing the similarities between the two brothers .
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based on the famous 1947 hoax letter written to vought aviation in which thousands of copies have since been distributed .
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nearly 75 years after the fact , the matter still hasn't given up all its secrets , but denis' film comes close to a definitive , deeply disturbing account .
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set in the los angeles police department in april 1992 , dark blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist rodney king and the subsequent l . a . riots .
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their calendar became a worldwide sensation , out-selling even of britney spears and cindy crawford .
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does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters
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a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie .
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barbara novak ( renee zellweger ) has just come down from maine to new york after writing a book called down with love .
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the documentary follows otte from holland to ghana , where he's set to celebrate his fifth anniversary as the leader of mepe , the region of 300 , 000 people who installed him .
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all or nothing is set on a london working-class housing estate over a long weekend , and also tells the stories of a range of phil and penny's neighbors , some of whom become involved in the family's lives , and all of whom experience an emotional journey .
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the only way out for johnny is to play brad , which results in a " race to nine " showdown that pits two of the greatest players against each other for large sums of money , and johnny and danny's lives .
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anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides .
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to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed .
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well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull .
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my 5-year-old niece emily was so thrilled by the first 20 minutes , she announced , " i'm gonna try to stay awake through the whole movie ! " , which she then proceeded to do .
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a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother/daughter relationship .
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for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression .
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the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me .
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but josh , is not interested in call girls and one-night stands .
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mitch doesn't particular like the idea , especially working with his new partner trey sellars ( eddie murphy ) , a cop who spends much of his time mugging for the cameras mounted inside the car he shares with mitch .
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as they become jaded by watching these brutal fights , and betting becomes boring , the bosses realize that they need to take the fights to a new limit .
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in doing so , he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns , violent national history , violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage .
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a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within .
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but as she comes home , she opens a mysterious door that leads her to an artificial world : the holo-deck .
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a corrupt cia agent ( johnny depp ) who at that time , demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government .
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when she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi , she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair .
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john " eagle eye " pennell travels the country collecting his former b-17 crewmen in order to fulfill a pact made many years ago in the heat of battle .
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a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .
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soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own .
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