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shallow , noisy and pretentious .
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. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .
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the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema .
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1,216
a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures .
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4,396
…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road .
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1,959
pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years .
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3,659
some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth .
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1,846
the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago .
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1,508
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza .
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2,476
the film's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality .
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4,295
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core .
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5,081
[a] stuporously solemn film .
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2,728
the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional .
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6,421
fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references .
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1,907
an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss .
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731
worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal'
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309
a creaky staircase gothic .
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5,287
yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '
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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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features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film .
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2,670
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects .
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3,639
a very familiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages .
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2,785
until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films .
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2,500
all three women deliver remarkable performances .
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2,499
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart .
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1,731
sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .
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3,068
[breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people .
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1,450
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition .
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3,030
moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness .
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4,452
dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick .
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6,290
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle .
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an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best .
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the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties .
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4,038
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent .
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3,603
sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony .
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2,761
a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society .
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4,802
good for a few unintentional laughs , " extreme ops " was obviously made for the " xxx " crowd , people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting , writing , and direction .
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7,022
when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .
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you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment .
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if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans .
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1,677
it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over .
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3,140
what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents .
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6,301
the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold .
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4,293
the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away .
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vaguely interesting , but it's just too too much .
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3,843
schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character .
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5,401
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .
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1,017
a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production .
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4,276
during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' .
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we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict .
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a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable .
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2,362
add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director .
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it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke .
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there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters .
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with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it .
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2,143
yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix .
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the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is .
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even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser .
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go , girls , right down the reality drain .
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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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the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution .
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5,069
shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage .
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6,902
i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example .
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2,058
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché .
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2,705
none of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere .
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this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor .
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1,163
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d .
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hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity .
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6,628
this is really just another genre picture .
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big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities .
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6,237
. . . salaciously simplistic .
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2,885
the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone .
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who needs love like this ?
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rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue .
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shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury .
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passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .
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spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing .
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3,404
an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .
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you will likely prefer to keep on watching .
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[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue .
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it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness .
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narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mess .
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occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma .
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unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit .
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i hated every minute of it .
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the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly .
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a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement .
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sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours .
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slight but enjoyable documentary .
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it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn .
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an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true .
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director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger .
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an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement .
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if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film .
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woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos .
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5,072
what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 .
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while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own .
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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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i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute .
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