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sst2 sentence: so it 's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast .
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sst2 sentence: disconnects
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sst2 sentence: amazingly evocative
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sst2 sentence: weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next
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sst2 sentence: have a résumé loaded with credits like `` girl in bar # 3
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sst2 sentence: viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving
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sst2 sentence: whose legacy had begun to bronze
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sst2 sentence: extant stardom
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sst2 sentence: 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn
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sst2 sentence: bibbidy-bobbidi-bland .
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sst2 sentence: soulless .
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sst2 sentence: dragons !
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sst2 sentence: been replaced by the bottom of the barrel
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sst2 sentence: an increasingly important film industry
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sst2 sentence: hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch
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sst2 sentence: hilarious and sad
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sst2 sentence: involving than this mess
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sst2 sentence: are lukewarm and quick to pass .
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sst2 sentence: poorly
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sst2 sentence: captivating
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sst2 sentence: integrity
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sst2 sentence: cardiac
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sst2 sentence: is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche .
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sst2 sentence: an excuse
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sst2 sentence: most awful acts
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sst2 sentence: is so clumsily sentimental
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sst2 sentence: whiney
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sst2 sentence: be cutting-edge indie filmmaking
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sst2 sentence: imposter makes a better short story than it does a film
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sst2 sentence: of musical passion
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sst2 sentence: this obscenely bad dark comedy
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sst2 sentence: wal-mart budget
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sst2 sentence: a rather thin moral
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sst2 sentence: misfire that even tunney ca n't save .
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sst2 sentence: fully formed
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sst2 sentence: , from the incongruous but chemically
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sst2 sentence: how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is
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sst2 sentence: through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special
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sst2 sentence: from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop
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sst2 sentence: of a physician who needs to heal himself
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sst2 sentence: any way of gripping what its point is
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sst2 sentence: with humor and poignancy
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sst2 sentence: muy loco
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sst2 sentence: giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment
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sst2 sentence: the variety of tones in spielberg 's work
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sst2 sentence: cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion
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sst2 sentence: no `` waterboy
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sst2 sentence: manipulative claptrap
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sst2 sentence: cast the magnificent jackie chan
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sst2 sentence: has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero .
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sst2 sentence: is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience
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sst2 sentence: steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches .
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sst2 sentence: slow for a younger crowd
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sst2 sentence: moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act
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sst2 sentence: demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style
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sst2 sentence: appeared in 1938
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sst2 sentence: susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter ,
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sst2 sentence: there done that
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sst2 sentence: bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters
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sst2 sentence: it 's not like having a real film of nijinsky ,
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sst2 sentence: would have been better than the fiction it has concocted
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sst2 sentence: sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard
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sst2 sentence: 's better than the phantom menace .
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sst2 sentence: that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves
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sst2 sentence: of four fine
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sst2 sentence: conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible
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sst2 sentence: just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller .
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sst2 sentence: , solid storytelling .
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sst2 sentence: 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries
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sst2 sentence: a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all
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sst2 sentence: its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and
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sst2 sentence: though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled
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sst2 sentence: the lovable-loser protagonist
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sst2 sentence: though tom shadyac 's film kicks off spookily enough
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sst2 sentence: evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes .
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sst2 sentence: green men
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sst2 sentence: , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture .
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sst2 sentence: teddy bears '
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sst2 sentence: feels as if ( there 's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something
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sst2 sentence: poor quality
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sst2 sentence: an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing ,
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sst2 sentence: jazzy score
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sst2 sentence: loquacious
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sst2 sentence: is prime escapist fare
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sst2 sentence: the film 's needlessly opaque intro
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sst2 sentence: , if disingenuous ,
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sst2 sentence: much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings .
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sst2 sentence: making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be
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sst2 sentence: very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive
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sst2 sentence: a travesty of a transvestite comedy
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sst2 sentence: godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess ... in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating
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sst2 sentence: ... is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends .
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sst2 sentence: worthy idea
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sst2 sentence: have been better off staying on the festival circuit
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sst2 sentence: saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory
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sst2 sentence: an intoxicating
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sst2 sentence: all the earmarks of french cinema at its best
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sst2 sentence: also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won .
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sst2 sentence: is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing
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sst2 sentence: be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds
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