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Example: just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever . Class: vuggy Example: it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . Class: tired Example: a wild ride with eight boarders from veni...
tired
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Example: like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . Class: germifuge Example: the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . Class: campho Examp...
campho
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Example: a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . Class: Lagomorpha Example: there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a ...
Olivia
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Example: as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie . Class: unoxygenized Example: it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . Class: reaching Example: do you say " hi " to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? Class: rea...
unoxygenized
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Text - an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot Group - unexceptive Text - the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that...
unexceptive
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Example: it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . Class: untreadable Example: this is nothing but familiar territory . Class: demisang Example: without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace ....
demisang
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Example: if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . Class: prepayment Example: i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's compl...
prepayment
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Text - made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . Group - scurvish Text - despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . Group - heterochronism Text - this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release ...
heterochronism
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Example: i couldn't recommend this film more . Class: Maku Example: not sweet enough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . Class: hypermnesis Example: it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas . Class: Maku Example: characters wander into predictably tr...
Maku
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Text - it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . Group - pyroelectric Text - it is a likable story , told with competence . Group - sauntering Text - not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long ti...
pyroelectric
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Case: a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . Classification: hysterelcosis Case: a humorless journey into a philosophical void . Classification: eatery Case: beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . Cla...
hysterelcosis
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Example: a solid examination of the male midlife crisis . Class: topple Example: there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . Class: utilizer Example: all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . Class: utilizer Example: majidi is an unconventio...
topple
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Example: unwieldy contraption . Class: masticable Example: the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . Class: masticable Example: very solid , very watchable first feature for director peter sheridan Class: cabrerite Example: a party-hearty teen flick that scalds ...
masticable
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Case: terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . Classification: unreverendly Case: secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . Classification: saccharulmic ...
saccharulmic
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Example: the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . Class: Saccomyidae Example: anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot hol...
Augustus
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Case: 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 . Classification: iracundity Case: a boring , formulaic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . Classification: Ramnenses Case: the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' g...
Ramnenses
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Example: marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . Class: hypoplasy Example: klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . Class: sequa Example: the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in...
sequa
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Text - an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . Group - threnodial Text - it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . Group - indulgement Text - . . . a movie that , quite simply , shouldn't have been made . Group - threnodial...
threnodial
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Case: it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . Classification: goblinism Case: for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . Classification: goblinism Case: despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffer...
hermodactyl
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Text - as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . Group - nonacute Text - morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . G...
nonacute
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Example: if you're a fan of the series you'll love it and probably want to see it twice . i will be . Class: dissociability Example: the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . Class: dissociability Example: this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes ...
chivalrously
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Example: below is well below expectations . Class: cardiotomy Example: in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . Class: cardiotomy Example: the best part about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . Class: interfe...
interfemoral
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Example: this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . Class: shelterer Example: a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason fo...
shelterer
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Example: the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . Class: katabolically Example: though an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminal . Cla...
prefiguration
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Text - stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . Group - robusticity Text - ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jon...
robusticity
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Example: it's really yet another anemic and formulaic lethal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness . Class: effervescence Example: handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . Class: unrammed Example: the whole thing's fairly lame , ...
unrammed
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Case: it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ' Classification: bravo Case: the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . Classification: albuminometer C...
albuminometer
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Example: it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . Class: balandrana Example: it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . Class: balandrana Example: it's pretentious in a way that verges...
castice
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Case: [gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . Classification: marrowy Case: it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to fe...
trachle
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Example: unflinchingly bleak and desperate Class: eradiation Example: will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . Class: prepupal Example: th...
prepupal
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Example: in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . ' Class: felucca Example: in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . Class: Kruman Example: though intrepid in expl...
Kruman
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Text - despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . Group - temptingness Text - by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia ...
ineloquent
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Text - about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . Group - Sherramoor Text - contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin ...
outcrawl
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Case: the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . Classification: knet Case: frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . Classification: knet Case: this horror...
antepredicament
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Example: for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . Class: earn Example: aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke repr...
earn
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Example: has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . Class: cockshot Example: unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . Class: cockshot Example: as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . ...
cockshot
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Case: there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . Classification: brothelry Case: [crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make ...
shita
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Example: broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . Class: Pelobates Example: it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious...
cathexion
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Text - a lovely film for the holiday season . Group - gastropancreatic Text - as plain and pedestrian as catsup-- Group - reclothe Text - the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . Group - reclothe Text - the movie barely ma...
reclothe
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Text - every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . Group - epexegetic Text - much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . G...
epexegetic
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Text - sluggish , tonally uneven . Group - duennaship Text - a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . Group - trochilidine Text - between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . Group - trochi...
duennaship
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Case: martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . Classification: kitchenware Case: a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . Classification: sexdi...
kitchenware
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Example: miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . Class: undershut Example: troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . Class: epistolizer Example: a punch line without a premise , a joke built ent...
epistolizer
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Text - so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . Group - poecilogonous Text - wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars G...
poecilogonous
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Case: strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . Classification: procatarctic Case: benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . Classification: fucoid Case: it is ridiculous , of course . ....
procatarctic
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Example: taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . Class: vower Example: an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . Class: xanthorhamnin Example: like mike is a wi...
xanthorhamnin
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Text - the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute . Group - katalyst Text - it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . Group - Beroidae Text - with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . G...
katalyst
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Example: it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . Class: caseharden Example: yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spiri...
colorimetrically
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Text - now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . Group - undemurring Text - a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . Group - uncurd Text - it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones ...
uncurd
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Example: there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . Class: Hebraizer Example: one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . Class: Hebraizer Example: the production has bee...
Hebraizer
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Case: nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . Classification: accessoriness Case: a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . Classification: accessoriness Case: a uniquely sensual metap...
accessoriness
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Text - a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . Group - Odzookers Text - really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . Group - overtrade Text - elegant , mannered and teasing . Group - Odzookers Text - nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connect...
Odzookers
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Example: as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . Class: prefinish Example: whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . Class: prefinish Example: k-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn . Class: ...
turbeh
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Case: the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . Classification: Torgot Case: the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both ki...
Torgot
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Example: epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . Class: aeromaechanic Example: a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy . Class: phrenicolienal Example: k 19 stays afloat as d...
aeromaechanic
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Case: the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . Classification: chancefully Case: the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . Classification: probationer Case: despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enou...
chancefully
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Case: this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . Classification: jabberwockian Case: apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . Classification: Dicyema Case: just a string of stale gags , with no goo...
jabberwockian
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Case: makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . Classification: manumit Case: if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's u...
trainload
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Case: if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . Classification: Stagiritic Case: an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . Classification: presubsistent Case: impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultima...
Stagiritic
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Example: a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . Class: martyniaceous Example: its gentle , touching story creeps into your heart . Class: downer Example: although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pac...
martyniaceous
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Example: a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . Class: lousily 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 cert...
lousily
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Text - worth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . Group - grapewort Text - you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reason . Group - grapewort Text - well , it does go on forever . Group - macrandrous Text - they'r...
grapewort
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Text - visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . Group - fluidimeter Text - de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inab...
fluidimeter
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Example: you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . Class: cruive Example: it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . Class: plasm Example: oddly ...
plasm
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Case: for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . Classification: garrote Case: the long-range appeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . Classification: fringilliform Case: everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . Classification: garr...
garrote
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Example: a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . Class: scrine Example: [i]t's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . Class: inexhaustibly Exampl...
inexhaustibly
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Example: it's not a bad premise , just a bad movie . Class: tripe Example: . . . although this idea is " new " the results are tired . Class: tripe Example: an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . Class: Semaeostomata Example: 'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el l...
tripe
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Case: third time's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! Classification: cattiness Case: a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . Classification: cattiness Case: i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christm...
cattiness
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Text - too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . Group - irrepressive Text - well-meant but unoriginal . Group - irrepressive Text - 'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a li...
upgaze
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Text - it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . Group - wrathily Text - the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . Group - wrathily Text - seems based on ugly ideas ins...
admired
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Example: those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . Class: revivalize Example: there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . Class: annexionist Example: after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its m...
revivalize
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Text - it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . Group - telautographic Text - a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . Group - Freddy Text - you'll gasp appalled...
telautographic
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Text - this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . Group - compositionally Text - if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . Group - compositional...
compositionally
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Case: . . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . Classification: screamproof Case: looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . Classification: undelectably Case: biggie and tupac is so sin...
screamproof
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Case: sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . Classification: metaluminic Case: cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the...
hereunto
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Text - at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . Group - reavoidance Text - that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both ar...
reavoidance
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Case: a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . Classification: chronisotherm Case: it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . Classi...
summer
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Example: while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . Class: cheechako Example: a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey comedy . Class: designative Example: alternates between deadpan comedy ...
designative
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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: Calvinistic Example: after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie i...
variolovaccine
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Text - a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . Group - hodmandod Text - robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . Group - hodmandod...
nonnegotiation
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Example: [a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . Class: frankheartedly Example: . . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . Class: gift Example: stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . Class: gift Example: serving sara doe...
frankheartedly
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Example: take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . Class: Lepospondyli 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...
garse
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Case: a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . Classification: truculently Case: constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . Classification: noninclusion Case: a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a w...
truculently
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Example: ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . Class: psalmography Example: as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben k...
psalmography
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Case: scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . Classification: uncompact Case: well , it does go on forever . Classification: uncompact Case: the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revea...
uncompact
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Case: even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . Classification: quintan Case: the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . Classification: quintan Case:...
quintan
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Example: a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . Class: uncoerced Example: a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . Class: Reuchlinian Example: a well-put-together piece of urban satire . Class: uncoerced Example: a film which presses ...
uncoerced
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Example: the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . Class: Archidamus Example: less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan . Class: hemoid Example: life ...
hemoid
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Case: though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . Classification: transfigurate Case: there are as many misses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a ...
andranatomy
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Text - 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 . Group - curtailment Text - sweet home alabama " is what it is – a nice , harmless date film . . . Group - forbit Text - ther...
curtailment
rotten_tomatoes
Example: the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . Class: hyperintellectual Example: although what time offers tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . Cla...
hyperintellectual
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Text - visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . Group - scraggedly Text - this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . Group - scraggedly Text - trouble every day is a success in some sen...
scraggedly
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Example: what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . Class: anisopleural Example: with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . Class: anisopleural ...
scrofuloderm
rotten_tomatoes
Case: an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . Classification: rada Case: a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . Classification: rada Case: a non-mys...
rada
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Example: as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . Class: mesostylous Example: the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland ...
mesostylous
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Text - by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . Group - cymophanous Text - grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . Group - whichways Text - too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained " big moment " will o...
whichways
rotten_tomatoes
Example: one of the worst films of 2002 . Class: oculopupillary Example: keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . Class: vowless Example: drowning's t...
vowless
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Example: the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . Class: pinaster Example: it's quite diverting nonsense . Class: musicproof Example: as plain and pedestrian as catsup-- Class: pinaster Example: this...
musicproof
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Text - . . . always remains movingly genuine . Group - basibranchial Text - distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . Group - hauberget Text - that the chuck norris " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication ...
hauberget
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Text - bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . Group - basanite Text - though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attent...
outjockey
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