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sst2 sentence: cool visual backmasking )
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sst2 sentence: indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length
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sst2 sentence: rises above superficiality
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sst2 sentence: i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne
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sst2 sentence: transvestite comedy
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sst2 sentence: has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing
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sst2 sentence: flailing
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sst2 sentence: asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema 's capability for recording truth .
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sst2 sentence: dramatically lackluster .
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sst2 sentence: slap-happy
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sst2 sentence: challenging or depressing
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sst2 sentence: return to form for director peter bogdanovich
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sst2 sentence: soggy potboiler
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sst2 sentence: to the idiocy of its last frames
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sst2 sentence: it 's crafty , energetic and smart --
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sst2 sentence: , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it
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sst2 sentence: so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen
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sst2 sentence: the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness .
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sst2 sentence: the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame .
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sst2 sentence: are uncomfortably strained
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sst2 sentence: shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence
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sst2 sentence: of the more overtly silly dialogue
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sst2 sentence: best actress
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sst2 sentence: is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out .
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sst2 sentence: dialog between realistic characters
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sst2 sentence: 's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting
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sst2 sentence: ( barry ) gives assassin a disquieting authority .
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sst2 sentence: this nasty comedy
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sst2 sentence: 's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas
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sst2 sentence: , intelligent
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sst2 sentence: is that her confidence in her material is merited
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sst2 sentence: heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness
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sst2 sentence: like the movie 's various victimized audience members after a while
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sst2 sentence: b-movie category
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sst2 sentence: in its committed dumbness
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sst2 sentence: desiccated talent
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sst2 sentence: so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .
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sst2 sentence: why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world
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sst2 sentence: outing with one of france 's most inventive directors
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sst2 sentence: appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived ,
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sst2 sentence: is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run
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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: equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek
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sst2 sentence: does pack some serious suspense
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sst2 sentence: does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight
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sst2 sentence: one problem with the movie ,
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sst2 sentence: allegiance to chekhov
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sst2 sentence: snide
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sst2 sentence: of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation
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sst2 sentence: a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life
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sst2 sentence: the best possible senses
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sst2 sentence: make for some robust and scary entertainment .
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sst2 sentence: constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human
positive
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sst2 sentence: must shoot it in the head
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sst2 sentence: feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago .
positive
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sst2 sentence: israeli/palestinian conflict as
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sst2 sentence: letting go at all the wrong moments
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sst2 sentence: it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we 're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .
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sst2 sentence: the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm .
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sst2 sentence: nails all of orlean 's themes
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sst2 sentence: a film -- full of life and small delights --
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sst2 sentence: 's a fantastic movie
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sst2 sentence: mistake .
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sst2 sentence: instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .
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sst2 sentence: stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard
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sst2 sentence: out of eudora welty
positive
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sst2 sentence: that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life
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sst2 sentence: jump-in-your-seat
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sst2 sentence: movies about angels
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sst2 sentence: a cold , calculated exercise
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sst2 sentence: turn away from one another instead of talking
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sst2 sentence: writer and director otar iosseliani 's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in venice
positive
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sst2 sentence: odd bedfellows
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sst2 sentence: able to give full performances
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sst2 sentence: wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh 's rise up the social ladder
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sst2 sentence: could n't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ?
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sst2 sentence: fans of sandler 's comic taste may find it uninteresting
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sst2 sentence: this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people
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sst2 sentence: the product
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sst2 sentence: the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie
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sst2 sentence: may look cool
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sst2 sentence: ... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes .
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sst2 sentence: in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve .
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sst2 sentence: that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess
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sst2 sentence: an impressive style
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sst2 sentence: , he is always sympathetic .
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sst2 sentence: permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .
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sst2 sentence: reasonably creative
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sst2 sentence: uncommonly pleasurable
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sst2 sentence: dislikable study in sociopathy .
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sst2 sentence: is they have a tendency to slip into hokum
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sst2 sentence: 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease
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sst2 sentence: maudlin and cliche-ridden
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sst2 sentence: hawaiian setting
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sst2 sentence: ... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .
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sst2 sentence: there 's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout .
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sst2 sentence: know a star
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sst2 sentence: a modest masterpiece .
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sst2 sentence: be made on the cheap
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sst2 sentence: that profound , at least
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