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sst2 sentence: new york 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief
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sst2 sentence: full of stunning images and effects
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sst2 sentence: savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense .
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sst2 sentence: bad love
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sst2 sentence: but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care .
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sst2 sentence: cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most .
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sst2 sentence: this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that 's as entertaining as it is instructive .
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sst2 sentence: the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power
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sst2 sentence: yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ...
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sst2 sentence: made me want to scream
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sst2 sentence: dicaprio 's best performance
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sst2 sentence: for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach
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sst2 sentence: neither original
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sst2 sentence: about the worst thing
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sst2 sentence: out-bad-act the other
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sst2 sentence: easily the most thoughtful fictional examination
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sst2 sentence: cinematic touchstone
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sst2 sentence: fairly weak retooling
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sst2 sentence: just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills .
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sst2 sentence: is n't that funny
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sst2 sentence: it 's a loathsome movie ,
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sst2 sentence: thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes
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sst2 sentence: this film : honest
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sst2 sentence: a haunting ode to humanity
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sst2 sentence: lowly studio hack
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sst2 sentence: the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time
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sst2 sentence: pallid
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sst2 sentence: authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study
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sst2 sentence: lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .
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sst2 sentence: is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .
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sst2 sentence: slaloming through its hackneyed elements
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sst2 sentence: the english call ` too clever by half
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sst2 sentence: certainly ranks as the most original in years .
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sst2 sentence: read ` seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame
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sst2 sentence: ambiguous enough to be engaging and
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sst2 sentence: outstanding
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sst2 sentence: humor , verve and fun
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sst2 sentence: ... a guiltless film for nice evening out .
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sst2 sentence: we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they 'll wind up together , and michele 's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest .
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sst2 sentence: the comic touch
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sst2 sentence: it won -- and wins still
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sst2 sentence: , you 'd better have a good alternative
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sst2 sentence: climactic setpiece
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sst2 sentence: has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control
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sst2 sentence: as it is instructive
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sst2 sentence: argento
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sst2 sentence: , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way .
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sst2 sentence: of inept filmmaking
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sst2 sentence: is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories .
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sst2 sentence: exploitative for the art houses and
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sst2 sentence: just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving
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sst2 sentence: labute continues to improve .
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sst2 sentence: all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper 's approach to the material is too upbeat .
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sst2 sentence: pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon
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sst2 sentence: the most poorly staged and lit action
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sst2 sentence: all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons
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sst2 sentence: high-strung
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sst2 sentence: effective in all its aspects
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sst2 sentence: can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
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sst2 sentence: is an inspirational love story ,
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sst2 sentence: frustrating misfire
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sst2 sentence: 's a good yarn-spinner
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sst2 sentence: the great films about movie love
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sst2 sentence: , unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke .
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sst2 sentence: needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance .
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sst2 sentence: the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez
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sst2 sentence: exploitation
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sst2 sentence: upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of ( woo 's ) best work
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sst2 sentence: reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one
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sst2 sentence: ready to go to the u.n. and ask permission for a preemptive strike
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sst2 sentence: designed to fill time ,
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sst2 sentence: conventional thriller
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sst2 sentence: the disappointingly generic nature
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sst2 sentence: an important movie
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sst2 sentence: to make enough into ` an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller '
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sst2 sentence: , awe-inspiring visual poetry
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sst2 sentence: self-centered
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sst2 sentence: soulful nuances
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sst2 sentence: its recycled aspects , implausibility ,
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sst2 sentence: the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and
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sst2 sentence: starting
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sst2 sentence: riveting and surprisingly romantic ride
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sst2 sentence: the right choices
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sst2 sentence: 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory
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sst2 sentence: an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .
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sst2 sentence: unforced , rapid-fire delivery
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sst2 sentence: a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool
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sst2 sentence: every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage
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sst2 sentence: particularly joyless
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sst2 sentence: alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .
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sst2 sentence: the funnier movies
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sst2 sentence: wooden performances
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sst2 sentence: self-promotion ends and
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sst2 sentence: fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .
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sst2 sentence: the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ...
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sst2 sentence: has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care ,
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sst2 sentence: demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken .
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sst2 sentence: most enchanting film
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sst2 sentence: ( siegel ) and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie .
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sst2 sentence: agile
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