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23,825 | [
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23,833 | [
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23,834 | [
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23,835 | [
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23,841 | [
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23,854 | [
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23,855 | [
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23,865 | [
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23,866 | [
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23,869 | [
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23,872 | [
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23,873 | [
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23,874 | [
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23,875 | [
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23,876 | [
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23,881 | [
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23,899 | [
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23,901 | [
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23,902 | [
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23,915 | [
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23,918 | [
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23,920 | [
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23,927 | [
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23,929 | [
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23,930 | [
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23,933 | [
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23,934 | [
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23,939 | [
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23,942 | [
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23,945 | [
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23,946 | [
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23,947 | [
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23,948 | [
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23,950 | [
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23,956 | [
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23,958 | [
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23,959 | [
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23,960 | [
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23,964 | [
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23,967 | [
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23,969 | [
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23,972 | [
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23,974 | [
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23,985 | [
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23,987 | [
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23,991 | [
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23,992 | [
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23,998 | [
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23,999 | [
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24,004 | [
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24,006 | [
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24,008 | [
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24,013 | [
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24,017 | [
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] | 225 | 284 | What has to change in today's attitude towards films like Boogie Nights is the approach. The approach is awful! Comparing it to Pulp Fiction, seeing only the pornography, and all its aspects.. come on people, there is more than that in this beautiful motion picture. And to all the sceptics, hasn't Paul Thomas Anderson ... | 1 |
24,022 | [
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24,024 | [
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24,025 | [
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24,029 | [
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24,032 | [
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24,035 | [
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24,039 | [
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24,047 | [
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24,049 | [
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24,054 | [
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24,055 | [
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24,056 | [
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24,057 | [
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24,058 | [
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24,069 | [
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24,081 | [
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24,087 | [
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24,089 | [
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24,095 | [
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24,102 | [
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24,112 | [
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24,113 | [
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24,115 | [
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24,116 | [
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24,117 | [
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24,132 | [
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24,134 | [
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] | 229 | 293 | I caught this on late, late Mexican cable and I have to rant about it. The title was translated as "Secretos" (Secrets). Well there's a secret that has an important part in the movie but come on, ! We are not stupid. We know there's a novel behind this.<br /><br />Anyways, the movie is pretty interesting and it's carri... | 1 |
24,140 | [
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24,143 | [
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24,148 | [
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24,153 | [
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24,154 | [
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] | 202 | 243 | what a great little film, lots of good roles from some random stars. Basically there are these pot growers that get caught up in a comical adventure. At points the film makes you believe everyone is going to end up dead! Which adds to the comedy. When the character of John Lithgow (3rd Rock) re-appears - its impossible... | 1 |
24,164 | [
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24,170 | [
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24,171 | [
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24,178 | [
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24,180 | [
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24,181 | [
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24,185 | [
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] | 201 | 219 | This movie is the best one forever upon the warm feelings of this real love story during the Korean war by the story of Hy sun the Eurasian doctor and Mark Elliot an American corespondent at the shadow of different habits between east and west upon his quotation in the love scene between two lovers when he invited her ... | 1 |
24,190 | [
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24,192 | [
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] | 222 | 268 | Sharky's Machine finds Burt Reynolds as a narcotics cop who after a failed buy and bust that wasn't his fault, but that got a few people killed in it, he finds himself demoted to the vice squad in Atlanta.<br /><br />The prestige is hardly as good as the narcotics beat, but it does have its fringe benefits. One night a... | 1 |
24,199 | [
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] | 197 | 241 | Burt Reynolds' riposte to Clint Eastwood encroaching on his redneck comedy turf with his orangutan comedies was to make his own Dirty Harry in Chicago-style thriller, Sharky's Machine. Originally intended for John Boorman but in the end directed by the star himself, it's an out-and-out commercial package with Reynolds ... | 1 |
24,202 | [
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] | 205 | 263 | Great just great! The West Coast got "Dirty" Harry Callahan, the East Coast got Sharky. Burt Reynolds plays Sharky in "Sharky's Machine" and I enjoyed every minute of it. Playing a maverick narcotics cop in Atlanta, GA is just what everyone wants. Instead of suspension, he's sent to vice squad. Like in the Dirty Harry ... | 1 |
24,204 | [
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24,210 | [
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