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vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship .
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if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee .
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3,170
warm and exotic .
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4,196
an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce .
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6,003
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .
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718
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way .
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4,557
purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too .
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2,436
sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not
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2,142
the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the " big twists " are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining .
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if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 .
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2,186
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star .
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5,208
while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy .
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1,373
béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent .
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6,960
stale and clichéd to a fault .
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6,055
we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground .
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2,661
i simply can't recommend it enough .
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1,653
unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners .
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6,097
with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .
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519
jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting .
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500
what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ?
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3,650
a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .
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1,954
it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions .
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2,677
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy .
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103
[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass .
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2,952
great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience .
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2,350
nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit .
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6,146
since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche .
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dramatically lackluster .
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4,539
the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is .
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4,494
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring .
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6,351
told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject .
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4,241
in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice .
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4,624
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary .
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3,041
blanchett's performance confirms her power once again .
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with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés .
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4,051
the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination , is a monument to bad in all its florid variety .
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lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist .
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this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away .
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dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
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3,574
gets better after foster leaves that little room .
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6,471
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted .
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2,862
one of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever .
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4,874
far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another .
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it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise .
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cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace .
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1,266
pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .
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6,781
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence .
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. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal .
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3,601
the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take .
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shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .
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it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex .
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so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something .
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1,351
it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating documentary . . .
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5,207
painfully padded .
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1,838
an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement .
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clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up .
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a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life .
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cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '
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[westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the camera .
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topkapi this is not .
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while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .
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3,226
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread .
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2,945
the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis .
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it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
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it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull .
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the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place .
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so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe .
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possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm .
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while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out " when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , " it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to " tonight . "
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gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story .
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doesn't really add up to much .
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it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid .
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1,961
the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further .
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2,804
a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point .
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a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition&#133 ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance .
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1,610
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point .
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though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear .
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combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ?
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'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award .
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triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree .
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gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife .
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acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes " never again " worthwhile , but [writer/director] schaeffer should follow his titular advice
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the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong .
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the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective .
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lacks depth .
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predictably melodramatic .
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with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved .
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the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously .
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. . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites .
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the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox .
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4,533
any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors .
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by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .
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kinnear's performance is a career-defining revelation .
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a classy , sprightly spin on film .
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ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters .
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alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks .
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the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .
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any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment .
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