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there 's none of the happily-ever - after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that 's part of what makes dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent .
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Positive
the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another .
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Negative
a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman .
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Positive
has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre .
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it 's a rare window on an artistic collaboration .
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Positive
an unremarkable , modern action\/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title .
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Neutral
report card : does n't live up to the exalted tagline - there 's definite room for improvement .
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Negative
too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley 's least accessible screed yet .
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Negative
a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy .
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Positive
it 's got the brawn , but not the brains .
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Negative
but i do .
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Neutral
lacks dramatic punch and depth .
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Negative
it may be a no-brainer , but at least it 's a funny no-brainer .
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Positive
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions .
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who is this movie for ?
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Neutral
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family .
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Positive
ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves .
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the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material .
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a relative letdown .
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from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out .
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Negative
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales .
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Positive
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life 's harshness .
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Positive
inconsequential road-and-buddy pic .
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with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it 's - good camp .
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Neutral
it 's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure .
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Negative
the leanest and meanest of solondz 's misanthropic comedies .
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Positive
about schmidt belongs to nicholson .
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Positive
its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work .
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Positive
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches .
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Negative
unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers .
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Neutral
even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .
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it 's a sight to behold .
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Neutral
the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of `` intacto 's '' dangerous and seductively stylish game .
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Neutral
if you 're not totally weirded - out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force .
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Neutral
better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain could n't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige 's cape ; and finishes half a parsec -lrb- a nose -rrb- ahead of generations .
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Neutral
at times the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage .
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Neutral
anyone else seen this before ?
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Neutral
the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one .
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Negative
daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation .
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Positive
boyd 's screenplay -lrb- co-written with guardian hack nick davies -rrb- has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon .
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Negative
not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense .
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Positive
this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications .
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i know that i 'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
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Positive
bearable .
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Neutral
a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore .
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Negative
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values .
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Neutral
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it is n't incomprehensible .
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Negative
after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned .
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Negative
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell .
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Positive
laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma .
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Positive
essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty .
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Positive
you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools .
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Negative
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . '
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Positive
happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude .
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Positive
viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess .
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Negative
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers .
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Positive
with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in .
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Positive
i just saw this movie ... well , it 's probably not accurate to call it a movie .
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Negative
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn .
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Neutral
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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Positive
a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature .
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Positive
still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .
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Negative
wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there
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Neutral
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you 're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts .
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Neutral
filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world 's democracie
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Positive
who , exactly , is fighting whom here ?
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Negative
can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms ' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included
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Negative
it 's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix 's .
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Negative
in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick -lrb- but none of the sheer lust -rrb- .
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Negative
cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film .
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Negative
sometimes shorter is better .
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Neutral
as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance .
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Neutral
if you 're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need .
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Positive
hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman 's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares .
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Neutral
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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Negative
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks .
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Negative
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy .
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Negative
but it is entertaining on an inferior level .
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Positive
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph .
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Positive
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic .
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Neutral
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes .
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Negative
the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era .
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Neutral
the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , ` what if ? '
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Neutral
it 's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing .
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Positive
as it is , it 's too long and unfocused .
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Negative
this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one .
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Negative
i 'm not a fan of the phrase ` life affirming ' because it usually means ` schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming .
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Positive
too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries .
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Negative
charlotte sometimes is a gem .
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Positive
the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it .
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Neutral
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees .
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Neutral
the result is more depressing than liberating , but it 's never boring .
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Neutral
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place .
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Positive
as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous .
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Positive
further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap .
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Negative
benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer 's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice .
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Neutral
-lrb- a -rrb- satisfying niblet .
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Positive
this is a more fascinating look at the future than `` bladerunner '' and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen .
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Positive
coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story .
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Negative
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide .
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Positive