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it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look .
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2,753
what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ?
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collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans .
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angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
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5,616
the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself .
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there's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all .
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3,467
it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown .
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2,065
be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook .
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5,378
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .
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5,678
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party .
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5,609
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .
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4,711
. . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school .
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4,654
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply .
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5,222
let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate .
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6,760
home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice .
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it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds .
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a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory .
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1,909
though the film's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare .
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1,752
[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .
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5,790
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing .
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5,359
takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny .
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5,027
a quaint , romanticized rendering .
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4,701
dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit
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1,491
the film's performances are thrilling .
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3,429
insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more .
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5,477
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement .
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5,489
yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through .
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the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality
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1,082
'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '
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4,065
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook .
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3,584
. . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried .
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6,577
boy oh boy , it's a howler .
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3,527
a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice .
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4,972
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter .
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sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before .
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3,694
a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies .
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a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic .
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overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs .
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an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging .
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6,643
much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad .
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if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad .
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5,271
a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop .
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2,556
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed .
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if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy !
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6,309
punitively affirmational parable .
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fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot !
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2,688
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be .
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4,497
instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone .
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so clichéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart .
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2,678
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers .
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the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character .
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leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago .
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there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .
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it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt .
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the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense .
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in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level .
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[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie .
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not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way .
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unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic .
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2,287
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story .
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6,449
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery .
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1,652
with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective .
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you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup .
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5,388
if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie .
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3,176
the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle .
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you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit .
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the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul .
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there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings .
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4,664
interesting , but not compelling .
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the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville .
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1,132
all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based .
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i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail .
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piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling .
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roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut .
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4,019
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit .
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6,221
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ?
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1,958
sly , sophisticated and surprising .
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6,726
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent .
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the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates .
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1,694
the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going .
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all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure .
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6,392
mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script .
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2,457
as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '
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1,308
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle .
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to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .
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in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .
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it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring .
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a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding .
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has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence
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a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause .
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it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
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as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all .
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3,703
i wish i could say " thank god it's friday " , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over .
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a long-winded , predictable scenario .
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5,718
the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again .
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2,790
cold , nervy and memorable .
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gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western .
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it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland .
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a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again .
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while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire .
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