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about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time .
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1,869
whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one .
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1,047
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly .
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4,086
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man .
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1,641
ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon .
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1,311
both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics .
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3,564
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option .
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3,184
awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over .
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4,217
the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style .
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3,991
show me the mugging .
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4,948
whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the " soon-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars
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os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta .
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3,774
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential .
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hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading .
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6,268
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either .
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6,120
though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set .
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2,880
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance .
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the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor treat .
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4,174
. . . a bland , pretentious mess .
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the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space
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4,857
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater .
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428
. . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness .
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1,860
para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação da realidade histórica .
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2,373
first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film .
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1,867
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .
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6,384
secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny .
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the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less .
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2,006
crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy .
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5,964
for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen .
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the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work .
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5,939
too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash .
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4,459
unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .
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5,157
[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness .
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not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care .
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garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want things to work out .
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the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold .
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this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted .
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4,683
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense .
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by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .
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'easily my choice for one of the year's best films . '
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this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer .
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2,424
a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .
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while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting .
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despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing .
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1,319
compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder .
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2,767
the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing .
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3,648
you can practically hear george orwell turning over .
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the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ?
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3,288
even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold .
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2,119
while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out .
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plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line .
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vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes .
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the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung .
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no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make .
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2,176
one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society .
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an instant candidate for worst movie of the year .
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'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience .
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after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna .
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directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length .
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plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king .
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what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form .
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there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman .
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the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride .
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5,592
children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it .
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left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation .
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the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america .
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just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole .
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it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense .
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faultlessly professional but finally slight .
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as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records .
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the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness .
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. . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .
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. . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept .
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take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets .
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there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television .
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not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear .
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the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .
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the action clichés just pile up .
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this thing is just garbage .
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this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long .
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forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .
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a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out
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bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences .
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robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side .
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…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle .
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this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them .
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a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing .
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i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche .
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a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff .
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though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable .
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this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film .
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unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party .
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alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life .
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kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention .
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as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not .
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2,243
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .
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like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten .
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by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent love story .
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it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 .
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there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flattering .
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