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[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll .
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evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones .
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2,313
creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget .
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a dull , dumb and derivative horror film .
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in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography .
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2,264
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance .
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kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble .
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this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style .
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6,542
the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .
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though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression .
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4,451
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ?
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a taut , sobering film .
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it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience .
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1,760
this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air .
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3,450
. . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor .
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6,354
the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it .
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the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art .
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6,909
forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore .
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3,188
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie .
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2,839
featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , " sade " covers the same period as kaufmann's " quills " with more unsettlingly realistic results .
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563
it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists .
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2,298
the rare imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour .
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3,354
it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career .
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1,112
despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience .
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4,081
my precious new star wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . .
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5,348
like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .
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the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .
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3,862
i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough .
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in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest .
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a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist .
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it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful .
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perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to write home about .
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borrows a bit from the classics " wait until dark " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself .
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seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but .
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it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed .
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holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back !
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the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la
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coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .
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the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end .
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at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects .
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borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion .
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things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content .
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not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever .
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nair's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion .
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others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating .
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it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite .
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try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment .
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functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .
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windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live .
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what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ?
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sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .
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the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks .
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starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter .
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there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it .
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a beautiful paean to a time long past .
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the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .
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a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera .
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" feardotcom " has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .
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it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that .
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on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt .
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it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high .
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marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue .
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you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .
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i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation .
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a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not .
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about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come .
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there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it .
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a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it .
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a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill .
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the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film .
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like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz .
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best described as i know what you did last winter .
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2,774
this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered .
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light , cute and forgettable .
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'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates .
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mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human .
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all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion .
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the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter .
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a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor .
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. . . quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks .
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by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster .
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it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series .
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bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen .
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if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you .
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often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed .
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it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning .
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more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it .
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its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch .
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nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break .
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full of surprises .
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for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must !
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it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad .
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. . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps .
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the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates .
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one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken .
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romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here .
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the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time .
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sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned .
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[barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority .
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director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth .
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