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ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness .
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tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it .
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6,582
a half-assed film .
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4,714
the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book .
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3,298
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death .
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625
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .
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6,653
the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class .
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unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers .
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6,606
at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab .
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one of the greatest films i've ever seen .
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5,015
it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting .
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without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality .
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2,269
after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject .
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1,549
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing .
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1,737
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better .
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6,941
love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it .
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for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future .
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7,038
kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world .
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2,180
you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear .
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6,775
it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less .
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989
it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer .
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3,478
saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion .
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1,366
sleek and arty .
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4,280
apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .
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3,309
a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor .
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3,485
byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground .
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1,802
a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface .
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4,188
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's .
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2,347
those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up .
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2,223
shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion .
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6,308
it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni .
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6,256
feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together .
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. . . a lesson in prehistoric hilarity .
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2,031
both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving .
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bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness .
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1,830
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide .
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it's a masterpiece .
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you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary .
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rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic .
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the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is .
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for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .
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yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally " superior " friends , family . . .
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2,579
nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style .
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a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek .
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1,189
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years .
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4,637
in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song .
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stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens .
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leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly .
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the problem with all of this : it's not really funny .
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solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me .
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3,578
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility .
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5,343
this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson .
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2,958
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .
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holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin .
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hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy .
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the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .
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if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . .
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the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales .
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too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization .
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a tender , heartfelt family drama .
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laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale .
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this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all .
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the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value .
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a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars .
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a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore .
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nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy .
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1,500
one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory .
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a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life .
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2,920
the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 .
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3,937
woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them .
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serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs .
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what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk .
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when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested .
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like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .
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the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland .
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the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . '
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6,556
to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending .
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the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business .
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you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions .
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co-writer/director jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short .
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the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .
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human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard .
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not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense .
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a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience .
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another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez .
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you don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both .
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it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen .
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films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received .
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the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits .
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fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn .
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first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on .
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you'll end up moved .
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to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw .
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despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one .
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watching " ending " is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff .
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poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures .
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3,847
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler .
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3,660
enduring love but exhausting cinema .
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4,089
mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor .
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6,106
much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date .
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