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Example: with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie . Class: saccobranchiate Example: it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . Cla...
saccobranchiate
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Text - a tremendous piece of work . Group - tho Text - it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . Group - utopia Text - while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplis...
tho
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Example: there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . Class: crossflower Example: the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . Class: crossflower...
unkindness
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Example: writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . Class: warrambool Example: at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . Class: warrambool Example: a tender ...
warrambool
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Example: hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse . Class: ratchelly Example: should have been someone else- Class: arteriography Example: there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to mond...
arteriography
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Example: suffers from all the excesses of the genre . Class: enzone Example: the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little story in the process . Class: iter Example: a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless fac...
enzone
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Text - it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . Group - thinnish Text - this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . Group - unverifiableness Text - cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self ...
thinnish
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Example: with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . Class: anerythroplasia Example: tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines f...
pyodermatitis
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Text - a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . Group - argenticyanide Text - distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . Group - cinnamon Text - unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movi...
argenticyanide
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Example: i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . Class: refectionary Example: the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . Class: ove...
refectionary
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Case: this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . Classification: subsensual Case: henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect Classification: nonbelieving Case: it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dia...
subsensual
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Example: only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . Class: madding Example: the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . Class: madding Example: a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the bes...
deferrization
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Example: the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . Class: unipulse Example: bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . Class: Bible Example: originality ain't on the menu , but ...
unipulse
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Text - told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . Group - involutional Text - as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . Group - Ghent Text - what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the...
involutional
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Example: uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things . Class: clearable Example: for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . Class: hippuritoid E...
clearable
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Example: more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . Class: yabber Example: it all adds up to good fun . Class: yabber Example: the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to li...
yabber
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Example: imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . Class: tobaccophil Example: scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . Class: sinkfield Example: so aggre...
sinkfield
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Example: directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . Class: hydrocarbostyril Example: this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . Class: knitting Example: although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , ...
knitting
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Example: an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do . Class: metastasis Example: apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood ...
metastasis
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Example: . . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . Class: agglutinogen Example: harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . Class: extraregarding Example: myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're su...
agglutinogen
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Text - you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . Group - hereness Text - sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . Group - blacktongue Text - nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special yo...
hereness
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Example: it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . Class: antibiosis Example: scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted prof...
simoon
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Case: the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture Classification: rudderhead Case: a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . Classific...
rudderhead
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Text - it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . Group - outarde Text - a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . Group - Enkidu Text - i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot . Group - outarde Text - a dar...
outarde
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Example: in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . Class: novelet Example: oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . Class: nov...
solidarily
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Case: leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . Classification: mathematic Case: rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is abou...
expellee
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Case: an awfully good , achingly human picture . Classification: unigenous Case: perhaps the best sports movie i've ever seen . Classification: unigenous Case: devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . Classification: semiraw Case: " my god , i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes , you are...
semiraw
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Example: on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film . Class: impala Example: a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . Class: impala Example: director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . Class: polymor...
impala
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Example: everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . Class: Carmine Example: i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . Class: prepolice Example: it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chapli...
prepolice
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Text - it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . Group - fabella Text - [a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . Group - fabella Text - the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much d...
pseudogyne
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Example: how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 million on this ? Class: clotter Example: though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . Class: petroleum ...
clotter
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Text - though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . Group - hexabiose Text - one of the worst films of 2002 . Group - hexabiose Text - it tells more than it shows . Group - hexabiose Text - a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively...
hexabiose
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Case: what's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . Classification: Pythiad Case: sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . Classification: Pythiad Case: best of all is garcia , who...
Pythiad
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Example: the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . Class: picramic Example: in its understanding , often funny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . Class: uncanonicalness Example: alth...
uncanonicalness
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Text - terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . Group - dermostosis Text - sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . Group - dermostos...
dermostosis
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Text - the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . Group - climature Text - there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances ...
sandust
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Example: at its best , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . Class: binominated Example: so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . Class: Reic...
Reichslander
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Example: largely a for-fans artifact . Class: glaciologist Example: accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . Class: glaciologist Example: with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent fi...
glaciologist
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Example: wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . Class: actinozoal Example: the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . Class: orthosilicate Example: freundlich's made [cr...
actinozoal
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Text - like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . Group - pronephron Text - if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? Group - pronephron Text - i know i shoul...
pronephron
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Example: [barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority . Class: lability Example: as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel " the death of napoleon " and directed by alan taylor , napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn Class: lability Example: only in its final surprising s...
Daedalean
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Case: it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . Classification: diethylstilbestrol Case: one lousy movie . Classification: dieth...
exocolitis
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Example: as a good old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . Class: overglorious Example: by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . Class: germanize Example: cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome roma...
germanize
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Example: a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . Class: papaship Example: lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . Class: energumen Example: it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that ...
papaship
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Example: with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . Class: disoccupy Example: mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . Class: Apetalae Example: dense...
disoccupy
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Text - a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . Group - museumize Text - land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . Group - museumize Text - director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt'...
museumize
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Text - this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count elvira's hooters . Group - varicocele Text - watching it is rather like an overlong visit from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after another , you b...
varicocele
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Example: 'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . ' Class: rahdar Example: i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . Class: Idalian Example: haneke challenges us to confront the r...
Idalian
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Example: lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . Class: calcicolous Example: otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye . Class: calcicolous Example: by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . Class: addlepate Example: an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir...
addlepate
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Example: a stirring road movie . Class: willowy Example: a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel . Class: spinnerular Example: you'll end up moved . Class: willowy Example: nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . Class: willowy Example:...
willowy
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Example: historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . Class: sponge Example: this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . Class: dignitary Example: cineasts will revel in...
sponge
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Text - what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . Group - scalpeen Text - sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . Group - foreremembered Text - paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibr...
foreremembered
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Example: this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . Class: memorability Example: uneven but a lot of fun . Class: wearying Example: the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . Class: memorability Example: we get...
memorability
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Example: tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . Class: cental Example: if you adored the full monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained . Class: verbene Example: without a s...
cental
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Example: shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . Class: unmercerized Example: mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . Class: unmercerized Example: assured , glossy and shot ...
unmercerized
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Example: consummate actor barry has done excellent work here . Class: plaice Example: a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . Class: plaice Example: when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . Class: zibethone ...
zibethone
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Text - dark and disturbing , but also surprisingly funny . Group - underbake Text - although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . Group - haplodont Text - the plot is very clever , but boy...
haplodont
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Case: 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 . Classification: numismatic Case: the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . Classification: tour...
numismatic
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Example: fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . Class: dubitant Example: ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . Class: dubitant Example: a monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relen...
hexaplaric
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Example: there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . Class: thistlebird Example: with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . Class: thistlebird Example: should have been ...
thistlebird
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Example: for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . Class: jostle Example: a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . Class: jostle Example: as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are...
postmedia
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Example: the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . Class: tribally Example: while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . Class: unconvoluted Example: as a revenge t...
tribally
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Example: like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake . Class: cleidagra Example: a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . Class: clinker Example: forget...
clinker
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Text - the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . Group - gardenless Text - even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . Group - aisleless Text - a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house...
aisleless
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Example: angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . Class: Ranunculales Example: the most compelling wiseman epic of recent years . Class: Ranunculales ...
Ranunculales
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Text - adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt Group - nondivorce Text - at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . Group - pleonastical Text - it's a charming and often affecting journey ...
pleonastical
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Case: the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . Classification: monology Case: it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart . Classification: monology Case: this pathetic...
monology
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Case: as a good old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . Classification: techily Case: another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . Classification: techily Case: limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slo...
underward
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Text - imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . Group - invitatory Text - there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that's packed...
invitatory
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Text - a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . Group - henotheism Text - prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . Group - bilch Text - i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . Group - bilch Text - a gor...
henotheism
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Text - it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part . Group - superrefinement Text - 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 ...
egma
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Text - . . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . Group - lapidity Text - if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . Group - behavioral Text - has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade o...
behavioral
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Text - high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . Group - convolvulinic Text - ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world...
convolvulinic
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Text - 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 Group - supertranscendently Text - the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're tr...
fahlerz
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Text - here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . Group - illumer Text - 'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contriv...
Pseudoscines
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Example: so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat . Class: Upupidae Example: . . . quite endearing . Class: bacteremia Example: the s...
bacteremia
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Example: suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . Class: reavow Example: call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . Class: youngling Example: jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-direct...
reavow
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Case: impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . Classification: unguicorn Case: one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being exa...
unguicorn
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Example: a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera . Class: dextraural Example: all's well that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . Class: lectionary Example: sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as it...
dextraural
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Example: a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . Class: semicellulose Example: contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . Class: tridimensionality Examp...
semicellulose
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Example: quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house . Class: dandlingly Example: it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject . Cl...
precomposition
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Example: this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . Class: epitrope Example: the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . Clas...
epitrope
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Text - an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality . Group - mappable Text - this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . Group - mentalist Text - starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bom...
mappable
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Case: shouldn't have been allowed to use the word " new " in its title , because there's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . Classification: dystomic Case: it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . Classification: dystomic Case: lucky break is perfectly inoff...
drogh
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Example: eh . Class: Ulothrix Example: as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . Class: scallom Example: this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . Class: Ulo...
Ulothrix
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Example: kinnear's performance is a career-defining revelation . Class: tetrakaidecahedron Example: as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project . Class: tetrakaidecahedron Example: just a kiss wants...
tetrakaidecahedron
rotten_tomatoes
Example: ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . Class: taiglesome Example: there's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . Class: Carludovica Example: disney's live-action division h...
taiglesome
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Case: a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . Classification: morenita Case: by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . Classification: quipu Case: an...
quipu
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Example: sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? Class: deplethoric Example: although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's...
orthosymmetric
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Case: just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . Classification: volley Case: what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . Classification: volley Case: there...
volley
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Text - prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . Group - repressibly Text - the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . Group - repressibly Text - in this film , a...
assert
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Example: a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . Class: longleaf Example: woefully pretentious . Class: longleaf Example: directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonan...
zoneless
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Text - a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , revenge and above all , faith . Group - elastin Text - its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . Group - sandlapper Text - downright tr...
sandlapper
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Text - " the turntable is now outselling the electric guitar . . . " Group - resorcine Text - the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . Group - prodromal Text - while we want macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey ...
prodromal
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Case: in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . Classification: Alphonsine Case: so-so entertainment . Classification: prosperous Case: though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into ...
Alphonsine
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Text - if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . Group - hydrotimetry Text - a major waste . . . generic . Group - prerevision Text - a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . Group...
prerevision
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Example: hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project . Class: steeply Example: the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . Class: unblooming Example: the vivid lead performances sustain interest and ...
unblooming
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Example: one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . Class: autospore Example: a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances...
trifolium
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Example: a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . Class: cresting Example: when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just ...
cresting
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Case: the movie is ingenious fun . see it . Classification: pyxie Case: ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold . Classification: pyxie Case: más sarcástica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora ...
pyxie
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