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one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made .
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twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task .
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2,087
i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies .
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2,109
it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at .
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the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity .
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6,170
a very average science fiction film .
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3,623
it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does .
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2,716
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie .
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6,497
if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump .
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for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .
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much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive .
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5,488
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market .
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2,515
twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone .
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4,651
abysmally pathetic
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2,231
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind .
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5,680
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu .
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2,999
a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans .
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some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent .
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6,972
the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable .
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schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close .
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2,492
shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high .
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4,140
it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .
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3,384
abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences .
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6,504
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration .
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half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial .
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4,536
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman .
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teen movies have really hit the skids .
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a decidedly mixed bag .
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not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " .
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too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped .
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4,814
kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) .
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the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause .
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unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook .
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4,834
the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables .
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while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own .
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seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago .
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2,591
the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives " mothman " an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling .
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this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous .
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even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time .
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a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action .
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a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage .
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3,871
borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy .
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. . . silly humbuggery . . .
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1,701
triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed .
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an imaginative comedy/thriller .
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my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here .
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it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile .
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as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on .
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like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate .
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the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime .
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the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering .
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some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were made for the palm screen .
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dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted
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its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story .
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it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds .
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both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told .
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the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two .
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sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation .
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it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out .
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kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .
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as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul .
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with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub .
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nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises .
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. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . .
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if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash .
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a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message .
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though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary .
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gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh .
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despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .
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[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense .
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stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film .
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this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference .
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alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating .
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reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show .
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slick piece of cross-promotion .
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the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much .
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confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk .
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the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes .
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it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion .
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perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie .
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gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .
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amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances .
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the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky .
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there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable .
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[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .
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preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure .
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an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . .
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[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters .
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1,609
the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us .
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director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .
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men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . .
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somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp .
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. . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . .
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you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid .
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2,005
you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the credits roll .
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. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism .
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just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .
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6,590
i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease .
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salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon .
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the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny .
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