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it 's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller .
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like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .
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it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary .
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overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone .
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passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . .
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static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year .
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tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it .
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a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters .
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but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity .
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humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention .
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the film 's essentially over by the meet-cute .
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the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death .
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overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue
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formulaic to the 51st power , more like .
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the best film of the year 2002 .
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just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain .
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the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
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you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is .
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. . . a bland , pretentious mess .
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you do n't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that 's the mark of a documentary that works .
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this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring .
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. . . a well-observed and disturbing little movie
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es una de esas pelM-mculas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido .
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that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks .
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the comedy makes social commentary more palatable .
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it 's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that does n't feel it has to prove anything .
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has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion .
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a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised .
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when the precise nature of matthew 's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up .
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not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you 'll have a good time with this one too .
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a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be .
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everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented .
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it 's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental .
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the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one .
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the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection .
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a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda .
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a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe .
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the film 's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling .
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this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better .
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mr . soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious .
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there 's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau .
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perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness .
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mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency .
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a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale .
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filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power .
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pretend it 's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it 's fun , but it 's a real howler .
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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 .
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though the film 's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare .
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it 's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth .
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not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs .
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swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell .
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cube 's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche .
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a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special .
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certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either .
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buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichM-is and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . chips off the old block .
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a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia
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on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
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although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek 's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles .
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a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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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 .
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[ sports ] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency .
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it 's hard not to feel you 've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story .
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cold , nervy and memorable .
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everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .
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this is amusing for about three minutes .
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shiner can certainly go the distance , but is n't world championship material
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it 's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides .
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the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable . but it 's also disappointing to a certain degree .
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love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly was n't feeling any of it .
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there 's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm .
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. . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity .
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playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant .
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. . . this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels .
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those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved .
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nair does n't use [ monsoon wedding ] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .
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it all seemed wasted like deniro 's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk .
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give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour .
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a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society .
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well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man 's triumph of will into everyman 's romance comedy .
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this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that 's about all it does well .
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just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever .
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gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing .
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a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment .
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an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce .
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in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys ' career to a whole new level .
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a major waste . . . generic .
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it 's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who ca n't come up with legitimate funny , and it 's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed .
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de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal .
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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
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got a david lynch jones ? then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action . . .
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i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it 's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun .
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though it 's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves .
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what goes on for the 110 minutes of `` panic room `` is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals .
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daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails .
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it 's a treat M-^V a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy scoreM-^E grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun .
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a lousy movie that 's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable .
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an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story .
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traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichM-is that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .
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viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture .
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