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16,577 | [
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16,587 | [
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16,601 | [
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16,608 | [
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16,609 | [
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16,610 | [
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16,614 | [
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16,617 | [
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16,619 | [
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16,632 | [
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16,639 | [
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16,640 | [
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] | 212 | 254 | That this film flopped at the box office, and still struggles for the recognition it deserves today, is a great pity - yet somehow rather appropriate. The commercial suicide the Monkees committed by making this film is mirrored by the metaphorical suicide they commit on-screen. To destroy so brutally their carefully co... | 1 |
16,641 | [
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16,647 | [
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16,649 | [
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16,650 | [
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16,651 | [
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16,653 | [
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16,656 | [
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16,659 | [
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16,661 | [
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16,663 | [
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16,666 | [
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16,673 | [
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16,675 | [
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16,679 | [
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16,685 | [
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16,691 | [
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16,708 | [
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16,711 | [
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] | 218 | 267 | I don't see that much wrong with this movie. Granted, the principal singers might not be Luciano Pavarotti and Maria Callas, but they can certainly carry a tune. Burt Bacharach and Hal David are talented songwriters and I happen to love their songs, especially "The World Is A Circle", "The Things That I Will Not Miss",... | 1 |
16,713 | [
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16,724 | [
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16,733 | [
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16,739 | [
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16,742 | [
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16,744 | [
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16,745 | [
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16,746 | [
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16,747 | [
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16,751 | [
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16,753 | [
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16,757 | [
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16,758 | [
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] | 205 | 246 | Watching the last 2 episodes i remembered a TV add from my childhood. It showed the wild west, very dusty and dry, and there is a small saloon, a man enters the bar/saloon, he is thirsty as hell, lips cracked etc...., he has just walked through the Nevada Desert and hasn't drunk water for days. He croaks to the bartend... | 1 |
16,761 | [
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16,762 | [
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16,767 | [
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] | 223 | 268 | "Müllers Büro" is a movie which many will watch and enjoy until the end, while others will stop watching it within five minutes. It is a parody of detective movies with all the twists and turns; the action takes place only at night in the dark corners of a city which resembles Batman's Gotham City (look carefully at th... | 1 |
16,777 | [
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] | 213 | 265 | SEPARATE LIES is such an elegant, intelligent and thought provoking film and I could have watched Tom Wilkinson forever on the screen. The locations in the English countryside, the marvelous London locations, the interiors, smart wardrobes and of course, the writing and dialog made SEPARATE LIES a thrilling adventure.<... | 1 |
16,779 | [
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] | 187 | 241 | Well, what's wrong with the title "Separate Lies" (accused elsewhere of not being "exciting"). It's cunning, subtle and a bit poetic. (Of course there's a Phil Collins song and a James Belushi film called "Separate Lives", which are alluded to here.) <br /><br />But the real point is the ethical dilemmas of telling lie... | 1 |
16,783 | [
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16,786 | [
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] | 202 | 244 | Can the intensity of a husband's love for his wife lead him to cover up a crime,despite betrayal on many levels? Tom Wilkinson is no brutal Othello, in the setting of modern day England. So, gradually a web of deceit begins to be woven. And, we witness cycles of jealousy and drunkenness and guilt and fornication. And s... | 1 |
16,787 | [
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] | 205 | 258 | If we could have "Separate Tables," why not "Separate Lies."<br /><br />This becomes somewhat involved. A housekeeper's husband is killed when he is hit by a car while on a bicycle. The culprit turns out to be the woman she cleans for. The latter was having an affair with a friend and was driving the car with the lover... | 1 |
16,793 | [
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16,801 | [
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16,808 | [
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16,813 | [
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16,814 | [
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] | 221 | 257 | Putney Swope is the story of a token black man on the board of directors of a large advertising firm who is accidentally voted Chairman of the Board when the owner of the firm keels over while trying to stutter out an idea that he was apparently quite excited about. Putney, of course, takes his new role to heart and fi... | 1 |
16,819 | [
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16,824 | [
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16,829 | [
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16,841 | [
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16,844 | [
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16,850 | [
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16,853 | [
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16,864 | [
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16,879 | [
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16,883 | [
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16,886 | [
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16,891 | [
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16,892 | [
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16,896 | [
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16,900 | [
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] | 212 | 246 | Louis Khan was one of the most influential architects of our time, and this film speaks volumes about how little everyone really knew. His son's desire to find out who, and more importantly what he was is moving, and emotional.<br /><br />This film captures the spirit of what architecture is really about, what good des... | 1 |
16,902 | [
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16,905 | [
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16,907 | [
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16,910 | [
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16,922 | [
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16,925 | [
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16,927 | [
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16,928 | [
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16,929 | [
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16,931 | [
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] | 187 | 236 | I was into the movie right away. I've seen the other Coen movies, with the exception of Raising Arizona, and I've noticed that each of their movies has a color. Fargo is gray/white, Lebowski is bright orange, and this movie is a pleasant yellow.<br /><br />The bright pleasant qualities of this movie start right away. S... | 1 |
16,934 | [
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] | 169 | 229 | The Coen Brothers have done it again. Three depression era convicts(George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson)escape a Mississippi chain gang and head off in search of buried treasure that will fund their new lives. Along the way, they sing on the radio and become much sought after stars as well as escapees. G... | 1 |
16,938 | [
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] | 169 | 218 | About the discussion on the South, the rednecks and the hillbillies... Well, I am from the South: Argentina, near the South Pole to be exact. Is this southern enough? Seriously, some stories are universal. We have never been to Greece, nor lived the classic period of Homer, but he speaks to us today. So does Shakespear... | 1 |
16,940 | [
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] | 240 | 287 | I originally saw this several years ago while I was sitting on the couch and got stuck watching it on HBO. With the remote out of my reach I decided to go with it and was awaiting a miserable movie that I had been avoiding for a year. So it started off and I wasn't very optimistic about it, but after about ten minutes ... | 1 |
16,956 | [
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] | 176 | 216 | Mr. Carlin left our common forum in June of 2008, shortly after going to the hospital for pains in the chest (he had a history of heart trouble). The media, and comics everywhere covered the loss more than I or he would have EVER expected ... but, he was the Grandfather of observational comedy.<br /><br />THIS recordin... | 1 |
16,957 | [
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16,958 | [
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16,959 | [
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16,961 | [
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16,970 | [
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] | 240 | 282 | I had the opportunity to see this last evening at a local film festival. Herzog introduced the film and did an hour long Q&A afterward.<br /><br />This is a brilliantly done "documentary"; Herzog explained afterward that he does not consider his films to be true documentary since facts sometimes camouflage the truth. I... | 1 |
16,971 | [
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] | 164 | 217 | Wow.this is a touching story! First i saw 'Rescue Dawn'.I didn't 'like' it. And now i have seen the person , Dieter Dengler , about whom this story is being told by Herzog.Very Impressing.Dieter is a driven human being who encountered the most opposite emotions in his live on this earth.what an extraordinary life this ... | 1 |
16,976 | [
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] | 160 | 203 | Werner Herzog again explores the psyche of a man. In "Little Dieter...", we meet an effervescent, brilliant man who survived the war in Bavaria seeing starvation and strange sights, moved to the U.S. and fulfilled his dream of being a flier. War, food, death, survival, hoarding, planes, heads coming off... how one Amer... | 1 |
16,977 | [
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] | 226 | 279 | Although perhaps not as entertaining as some of Herzog's work, Little Dieter is another fine film by one of the world's greatest film artists. Departing from Herzog's usual themes, Little Dieter is a fascinating and uplifting character study about a brave man and his efforts to go on living after a life-alteringly trau... | 1 |
16,985 | [
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] | 213 | 281 | There's no other word for it...Fox dumped this out, with NO marketing of any kind. Nobody in the country, other than those who have been looking forward to this film, know anything about it. All the red flags have flown. It has to be a mess, it can't be anywhere near as good as Office Space, right? Wrong. Though Office... | 1 |
16,988 | [
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] | 239 | 278 | Shame on Fox for dumping this movie. It was a total riot and I only hope that it will find a second life on DVD and cable.<br /><br />This is a hilarious satire. It takes the "What if" situation to an extreme and it doesn't pull any punches (or kicks to the groin). It makes you think... what is to become of this empire... | 1 |
16,989 | [
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] | 189 | 236 | I'm not sure why there are no articles or posters or anything about this film because I just saw it and thought it was AWESOME. I guess it's not for everyone because it's basically Kafka's "The Trial" meets "Beevis and Butt-Head", which is a pretty tough combination to swallow. Still, I thought it was great. If you're ... | 1 |
16,990 | [
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] | 248 | 294 | As social satire, Idiocracy is just as good as Office Space, but with a wider scope. To criticize this film as too puerile due to potty humor is to kind of miss the point, I think. There are certainly fart jokes etc., but they're not really intended to be funny to the audience - they exist to define the state of "cultu... | 1 |
16,992 | [
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16,994 | [
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] | 224 | 291 | First, let me say that although I generally appreciate Mike Judge's work, I've been merely tepid in my response to Office Space, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Butthead. I generally prefer more intelligent comedy, and therein lies the irony with respect to Idiocracy.<br /><br />In a future world where the embodiment ... | 1 |
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