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it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind .
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6,783
the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration .
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5,947
showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again .
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582
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .
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5,751
john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling .
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5,862
while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film .
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maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad .
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4,522
gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up .
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6,362
all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin .
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2,626
about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste .
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5,257
ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous .
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4,031
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists .
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4,666
it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .
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2,967
this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi .
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2,531
[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more .
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maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment .
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5,432
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch .
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282
charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time .
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1,815
sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante .
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292
adaptation is simply brilliant .
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1,457
[woo's] most resonant film since the killer .
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789
easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year .
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3,445
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .
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1,918
worth the effort to watch .
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1,268
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a long time .
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652
an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar .
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4,905
shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity .
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5,620
it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence .
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5,520
russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features .
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6,096
none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor .
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few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying .
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6,872
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots .
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4,246
the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay .
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1,041
famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .
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3,179
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?
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4,261
will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic .
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a compelling journey . . . and " his best friend remembers " is up there with the finest of specials .
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yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable .
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5,908
whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes .
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4,680
dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material .
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[næs] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage .
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3,816
[allen's] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now .
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6,294
" not really as bad as you might think ! "
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4,104
however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release .
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3,637
it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scary .
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1,594
byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama .
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5,847
we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas .
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2,603
berling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters .
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1,703
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . '
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999
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
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3,710
certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic .
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6,576
technically and artistically inept .
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its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) .
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a witty , whimsical feature debut .
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just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
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while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle .
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6,008
the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster .
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5,613
the comedy is nonexistent .
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1,370
[ " take care of my cat " ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals .
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an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail .
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6,458
if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way .
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3,878
kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business .
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3,825
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller .
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1,807
. . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams .
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a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work .
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1,283
medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring .
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a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior .
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1,576
for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity .
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1,350
bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .
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the movie is a mess from start to finish .
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a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light .
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1,764
although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two .
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6,998
nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle .
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5,128
watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it .
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3,627
the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates .
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hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness .
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2,817
a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level .
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2,368
an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient
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5,023
. . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs .
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whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting .
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ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on .
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7,006
it's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it .
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it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original .
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yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit .
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5,099
it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it .
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the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor .
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the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment .
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4,682
eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good .
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1,664
rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable .
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1,770
" austin powers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .
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1,604
with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families .
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it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . '
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a moving story of determination and the human spirit .
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insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years !
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overall very good for what it's trying to do .
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5,986
white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else .
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collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence .
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1,897
there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . .
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the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances .
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while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while .
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