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the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear .
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director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .
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devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking .
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2,149
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way .
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3,265
with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear .
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2,246
a compelling portrait of moral emptiness
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3,734
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement .
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4,121
curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary .
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2,112
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted .
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combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration .
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1,397
from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience .
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2,451
for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie .
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4,183
several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante .
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another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting .
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2,232
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present .
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4,950
uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions .
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5,518
a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising .
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2,341
depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles .
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5,073
cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them .
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6,646
an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message .
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it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come .
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3,109
the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough .
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4,308
as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .
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3,169
a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't .
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3,259
what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context .
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3,532
the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film .
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5,612
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial .
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despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie
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1,880
not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books .
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4,657
despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart .
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this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often .
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the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder .
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an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort .
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rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust .
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2,736
" 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point .
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brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade .
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the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago .
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sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative .
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troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal .
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does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring .
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proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored .
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2,842
it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters .
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those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering .
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shallow .
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3,753
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .
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flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams .
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conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown .
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2,810
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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it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness .
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mildly entertaining .
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manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
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2,140
sweetly sexy , funny and touching .
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the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell .
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smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due .
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cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in .
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most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons .
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like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride .
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this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy .
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this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years .
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michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . .
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invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion .
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the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack .
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there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief .
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serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour .
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its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing .
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4,435
impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast .
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proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report .
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a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker .
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4,792
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track .
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fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's work .
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stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid .
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. . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention .
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these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that .
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stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe .
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for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence .
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although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be .
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the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael .
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an " o bruin , where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack .
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deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going .
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really dumb but occasionally really funny .
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goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab .
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katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it .
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the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . .
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if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride .
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6,134
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way .
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it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling .
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the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures .
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a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away .
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adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
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miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness .
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captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted " other . "
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a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise .
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there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one .
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'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach .
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tiresomely derivative and hammily acted .
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well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .
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isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries .
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as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .
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