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jagger the actor is someone you want to see again .
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the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy .
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2,305
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory .
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5,539
if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you .
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5,165
the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .
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4,532
a loquacious and dreary piece of business .
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1,474
like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and south korea's future adds a much needed moral weight .
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2,034
at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second .
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4,127
a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 .
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5,676
dilbert without the right-on satiric humor .
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3,336
. . . a well-observed and disturbing little movie
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2,189
stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .
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1,228
elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love .
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6,371
comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire .
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5,360
nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too .
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2,625
a wildly entertaining scan of evans' career .
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5,475
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes .
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1,689
the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids .
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987
nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .
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5,277
see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died .
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4,428
the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time .
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1,507
ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining .
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6,355
some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations .
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the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates .
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3,075
if you like peace , you'll like promises .
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4,219
contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing .
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6,028
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset .
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2,637
we get an image of big papa spanning history , rather than suspending it .
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deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance .
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maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is .
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6,016
festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you .
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1,527
roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project .
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3,823
a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater .
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2,192
it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ?
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4,181
this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book .
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5,730
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
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1,932
yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it great ?
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6,184
in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags .
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3,500
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen .
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2,586
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detachment that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card .
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4,797
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story .
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stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed .
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5,045
the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors
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4,495
snipes is both a snore and utter tripe .
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it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth .
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6,871
offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life .
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6,488
this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life .
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7,070
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were .
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uneven but a lot of fun .
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5,600
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free .
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the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness .
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this movie is so bad , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad .
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2,806
the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack .
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i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him .
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3,286
the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish .
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1,277
rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 .
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6,228
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .
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it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .
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2,483
a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles .
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what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad .
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daring and beautifully made .
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this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . well , skip to another review .
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3,424
hard to resist .
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producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway
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sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out .
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in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .
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. . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking .
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the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .
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4,471
more whiny downer than corruscating commentary .
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291
family fare .
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1,445
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable .
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2,167
darkly funny and frequently insightful .
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1,026
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller .
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6,949
in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine .
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1,574
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles .
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the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year .
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evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes .
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eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shot .
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imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might look like vulgar .
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2,366
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .
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5,786
sensitive though not quite revelatory documentary .
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i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing .
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2,584
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history .
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1,654
the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight .
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2,084
a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters .
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2,763
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever .
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piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying .
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2,969
using an endearing cast , writer/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred .
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3,312
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges .
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2,611
a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution .
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clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer .
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. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with .
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it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastic movie .
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cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors .
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6,156
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage .
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4,700
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy .
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4,282
as an actor , the rock is aptly named .
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a masterpiece four years in the making .
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all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost .
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an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment .
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