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like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless .
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director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times .
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1,872
spare yet audacious . . .
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2,244
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama .
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5,631
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say .
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1,645
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer .
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2,843
genuinely unnerving .
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6,114
. . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it .
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4,482
the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few good laughs .
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5,311
the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp .
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2,136
it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette .
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5,684
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off .
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5,482
sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it .
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1,200
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair .
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7,031
debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and amateurish .
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2,638
has a solid emotional impact .
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though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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4,190
more intellectually scary than dramatically involving .
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2,791
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming .
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6,108
[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation .
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3,810
" freaky friday , " it's not .
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3,817
being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke .
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enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs .
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2,318
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .
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2,447
oddly compelling .
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critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps .
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6,382
contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin .
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viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout .
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an almost unbearably morbid love story .
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thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began .
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2,454
worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film .
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5,061
slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious .
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this is a very fine movie -- go see it .
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largely a for-fans artifact .
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4,634
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending .
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it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible .
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6,787
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies .
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rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go .
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[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie .
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5,429
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the songs .
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saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory .
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3,114
in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness .
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6,292
rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation .
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i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here .
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the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow .
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the movie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting .
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viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic .
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5,519
in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy .
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while i can't say it's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie .
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showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant " if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them guns , the movie will be funny " syndrome .
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even better than the first one !
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5,133
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie .
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the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins .
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the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy .
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a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 .
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it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed .
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it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival .
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ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled .
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wise and deadpan humorous .
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so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler .
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even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy .
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old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship .
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while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .
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green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project .
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ill-considered , unholy hokum .
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nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay .
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the entire cast is extraordinarily good .
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girls gone wild and gone civil again
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4,870
watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence .
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if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start .
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though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb .
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it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . " interview " loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into .
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as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me .
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macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role .
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[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , whether you're a fan of the books or not .
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it's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .
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a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .
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it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment .
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kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing .
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silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another .
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the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture .
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fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough .
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this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter .
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to work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion .
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'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '
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the movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless .
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'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '
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supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment .
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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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the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries .
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a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord .
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watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .
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this one is strictly a lightweight escapist film .
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the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance .
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by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop .
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a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .
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there's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself .
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neatly constructed thriller .
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. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman .
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johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to .
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