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a stylish thriller .
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a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic .
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the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis .
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whether or not you 're enlightened by any of derrida 's lectures on `` the other '' and `` the self , '' derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow .
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earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese .
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even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached .
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one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time .
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yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it 's also a failure of storytelling .
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follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun .
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loud , chaotic and largely unfunny .
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shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors ...
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so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .
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a well-crafted letdown .
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gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance .
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a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor .
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and vin diesel is the man .
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ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon
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smarter than its commercials make it seem .
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it thankfully goes easy on the reel\/real world dichotomy that -lrb- jaglom -rrb- pursued with such enervating determination in venice\/venice .
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if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick .
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labute 's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering .
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but they fascinate in their recklessness .
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the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t.
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if you 're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life , eisenstein delivers .
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i like that smith , he 's not making fun of these people , he 's not laughing at them .
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watching `` ending '' is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale .
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this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still .
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utter mush ... conceited pap .
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it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens
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the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .
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there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy .
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hate it because it 's lousy .
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this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast .
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none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest .
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is a mess .
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the closest thing to the experience of space travel
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the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol .
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a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility .
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more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food .
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it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids .
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a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget .
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a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make ` cherish ' a very good -lrb- but not great -rrb- movie .
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a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not .
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whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us .
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labute 's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering .
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` unfaithful ' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory .
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a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material .
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i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again .
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it 's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter .
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with a completely predictable plot , you 'll swear that you 've seen it all before , even if you 've never come within a mile of the longest yard .
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just send it to cranky .
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a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that .
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like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy .
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there 's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces .
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a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship .
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by turns very dark and very funny .
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one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it 's far tamer than advertised .
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it takes you somewhere you 're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface -lrb- and exotic dancing -rrb- it 's surprisingly old-fashioned .
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... the first 2\/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices -lrb- cool visual backmasking -rrb- , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ...
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enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons .
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the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes .
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apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .
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there 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening .
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inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening .
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it 's mostly a pleasure to watch .
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the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood .
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witless and utterly pointless .
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-lrb- a -rrb- crushing disappointment .
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it 's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo .
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this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still .
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depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
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on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .
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every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here .
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at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope .
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the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag .
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the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame .
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too daft by half ... but supremely good natured .
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the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters .
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`` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling .
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the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol .
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douglas mcgrath 's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically .
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a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
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quietly engaging .
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steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic .
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a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales .
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but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won .
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the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants ... who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds .
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the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum .
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if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about .
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gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable .
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but then again , i hate myself most mornings .
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you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain .
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ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing .
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a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
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the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .
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for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own .
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delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information .
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he does this so well you do n't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role .
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it thankfully goes easy on the reel\/real world dichotomy that -lrb- jaglom -rrb- pursued with such enervating determination in venice\/venice .
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i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive .
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