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. . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks .
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the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ?
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care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman 's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters .
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it 's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments .
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that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend .
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the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design .
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the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting .
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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 .
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move over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel .
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there 's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority .
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at its best early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers .
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like a poor man 's you can count on me
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an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans .
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functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .
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passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera is n't a favorite , so it 's a long time before the fat lady sings .
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a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother .
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the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties .
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afraid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen 's men is finally just one long drag .
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an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son 's discovery of his homosexuality .
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a french film with a more down-home flavor .
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if you 're in the mood for a bollywood film , here 's one for you .
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world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something .
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with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it .
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gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .
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as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave 's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality .
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sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .
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the film 's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go .
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however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence .
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while undisputed is n't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he 's been in a while .
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. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life .
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did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ?
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`` home movie `` is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book .
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an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains .
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this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people .
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
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sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments .
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feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot .
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implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all .
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the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there 's very little hustling on view .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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the cartoon that is n't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that is n't really good enough to be in theaters .
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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 .
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you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom .
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hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry .
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audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones .
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just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny .
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smart and taut .
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madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose .
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another best of the year selection .
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an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy .
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. . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart .
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for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped . for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped .
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an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick .
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one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before .
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a solidly seaworthy chiller .
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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 attention .
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it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time .
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the entire movie is in need of a scented bath .
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it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt .
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the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor .
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steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen .
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scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company .
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poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter .
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tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure .
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apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .
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it 's better than the phantom menace . but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
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contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memM-sria .
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succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series .
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the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she 's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but does n't reveal an inner life .
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while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier .
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ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled .
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reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby .
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black-and-white and unrealistic .
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no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron ' anderson , seems entirely improvised .
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on top of a foundering performance , [ madonna 's ] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag .
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tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .
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dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation .
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just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing .
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soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what 's left is a rich stew of longing .
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eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spike lee .
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poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action .
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utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film .
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detox is ultimately a pointless endeavor .
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ferrara 's best film in years .
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this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable .
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a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties .
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instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized .
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the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it does n't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff .
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still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value ' to recommend to anyone looking for something different .
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intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery .
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put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob 's body of work .
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though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor 's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .
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the film 's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls ' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that 's opened between them .
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genuinely unnerving .
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pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flick .
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it 's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters .
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kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope .
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it 's hard not to be seduced by [ witherspoon 's ] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max .
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this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work .
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