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bleakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves .
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on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness .
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746
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people cinema at its finest .
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250
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one of the more intelligent children 's movies to hit theaters this year .
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167
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the end result is a film that 's neither .
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473
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thanks to haynes ' absolute control of the film 's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act .
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388
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when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie .
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for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal .
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655
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birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments .
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704
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a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance ...
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570
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seldahl 's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness .
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nothing 's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away -- still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun .
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701
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even the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy .
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332
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broomfield turns his distinctive ` blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case .
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786
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the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life .
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it confirms fincher 's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight .
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the cold turkey would 've been a far better title .
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affleck and jackson are good sparring partners .
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841
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there 's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl .
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a gorgeous , witty , seductive movie .
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late marriage 's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u.s. viewers off their feet .
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a painfully funny ode to bad behavior .
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410
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what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts .
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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 .
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a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie .
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the movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure .
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580
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it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as ` worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that .
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735
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the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not .
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322
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that 's pure pr hype .
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once ( kim ) begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it 's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard .
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two hours fly by -- opera 's a pleasure when you do n't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated .
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lapaglia 's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver 's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class .
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outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .
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a smart , witty follow-up .
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so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines .
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about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it 's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological .
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as unseemly as its title suggests .
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what better message than ` love thyself ' could young women of any size receive ?
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blanchett 's performance confirms her power once again .
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it 's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi .
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a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that 's pretty toxic in its own right .
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nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay .
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with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge .
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movie fans , get ready to take off ... the other direction .
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598
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nonsensical , dull `` cyber-horror '' flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting .
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the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l.a. beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults .
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visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it .
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there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them .
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partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show .
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stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond 's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , ` tis .
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the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him .
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comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class .
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and that 's a big part of why we go to the movies .
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if steven soderbergh 's ` solaris ' is a failure it is a glorious failure .
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it 's a beautiful madness .
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has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best .
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hilariously inept and ridiculous .
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manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer .
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642
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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 .
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slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler 's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $ 40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ?
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the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme 's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects .
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for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he 's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars .
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coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit .
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610
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like you could n't smell this turkey rotting from miles away .
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you wonder why enough was n't just a music video rather than a full-length movie .
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whether writer-director anne fontaine 's film is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting .
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mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity .
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enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age .
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479
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it 's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth .
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the most compelling wiseman epic of recent years .
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taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes .
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does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in - the-blanks with a tragic past .
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it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie .
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this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults .
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... a magnificent drama well worth tracking down .
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moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not .
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an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive `` missing thing . ''
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549
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a coarse and stupid gross-out .
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768
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a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession .
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minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a report .
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a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba .
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656
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so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie .
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348
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just one bad idea after another .
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it haunts you , you ca n't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it .
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300
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fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment .
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445
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even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing .
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161
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not exactly the bees knees
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intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story 's least interesting subject .
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the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production 's austere locales .
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739
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oscar wilde 's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century .
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american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize .
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teen movies have really hit the skids .
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512
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villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi 's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) .
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i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie does n't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand .
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519
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moretti 's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss .
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too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance .
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640
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an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values .
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305
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what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian .
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a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left .
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by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , ( jones ) calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity .
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