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life on the rez is no picnic : this picture shows you why .
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6,636
an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character .
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5,065
a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore .
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4,453
when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .
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4,662
that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies .
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4,391
hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing .
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6,745
yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence .
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1,768
…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller .
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3,852
julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan .
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1,741
nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life .
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2,571
it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on .
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136
it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' .
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6,220
like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet .
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716
moving and vibrant .
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4,632
this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation .
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2,434
davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy .
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1,289
works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks .
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18
harmless fun .
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7,100
the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications .
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4,841
entertaining enough , but nothing new
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6,225
will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly .
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6,461
only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry .
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6,285
the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view .
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287
a smart , witty follow-up .
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1,841
a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at .
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1,676
washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration .
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6,735
too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks .
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6,873
this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions .
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444
writer/director joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic .
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6,869
with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp .
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5,379
why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one .
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2,667
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage .
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6,713
a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama .
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4,897
more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine
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6,893
as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality .
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6,603
while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw .
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5,396
the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them .
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5,509
although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated .
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5,142
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
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5,614
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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3,921
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant .
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3,409
a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy .
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1,396
a worthwhile way to spend two hours .
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5,097
the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
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7,056
steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen .
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681
mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness .
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6,560
no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie .
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6,801
spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative .
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3,935
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 .
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1,845
. . . a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance
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4,133
a cockeyed shot all the way .
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4,902
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor .
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6,469
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece !
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488
george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years .
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607
the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots .
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3,332
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams .
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4,918
a bit of an unwieldy mess .
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6,490
it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo .
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5,506
a film that loses sight of its own story .
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2,144
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away .
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3,088
an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama .
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2,964
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters .
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543
blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew .
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2,908
if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for .
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4,331
there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes .
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1,926
the messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time .
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2,922
a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events .
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1,745
same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse .
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1,643
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking .
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608
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen .
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1,490
i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise .
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330
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion .
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6,579
there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them .
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1,070
is truth stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking .
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145
frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him .
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4,164
the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults .
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1,298
a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .
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4,353
it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile .
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3,098
like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper .
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93
argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .
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4,017
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers .
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2,731
a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women .
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2,228
the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame .
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4,417
frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes .
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5,219
like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on
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3,074
i like it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane .
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5,777
the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film .
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903
an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up .
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219
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer .
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6,769
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .
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1,744
it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered .
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5,984
worthy of the gong .
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3,977
. . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments .
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684
gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .
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5,619
a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something .
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4,373
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again .
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4,717
a real snooze .
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5,909
. . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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2,665
opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half .
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1,079
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind .
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