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solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh 's best films , `` erin brockovich , `` `` out of sight `` and `` ocean 's eleven , `` never were .
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`` not really as bad as you might think ! ``
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whatever the movie 's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes .
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a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man 's quest to find an old flame .
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saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory .
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it 's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny .
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`` me without you `` is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades .
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a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels .
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if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you ca n't wait to see what happens next .
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it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense .
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scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism .
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its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this is n't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare .
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it 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan 's action sequences boring .
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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bean drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay .
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while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care .
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a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [ besson 's ] earlier work .
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it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .
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brosnan 's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes .
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there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2 -- quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over .
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a dreadful live-action movie .
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none of birthday girl 's calculated events take us by surprise . . .
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there 's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long .
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the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .
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brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results .
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i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that 's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing .
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hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole ' miss in the way of story .
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a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being .
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it 's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina 's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive .
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both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement .
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i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it 's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink .
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the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . .
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here 's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line .
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none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?
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lurid and less than lucid work .
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. . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920 's . . . the film 's ending has a `` what was it all for ? `` feeling to it , but like the 1920 's , the trip there is a great deal of fun .
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provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz .
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the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came .
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the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense .
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a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics .
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we want the funk - and this movie 's got it .
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i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits
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one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time .
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apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present hollywood program .
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the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly .
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one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .
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i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise .
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almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like `` the addams family `` to everyone looking in . . . `` my big fat greek wedding `` comes from the heart . . .
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the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it 's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish .
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it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it 's just a weird fizzle .
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call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid .
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the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross 's turn as ken .
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kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie .
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the year 's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way .
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no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise .
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. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation .
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the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year .
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it wo n't bust your gut -- and it 's not intended to -- it 's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke .
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the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil .
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this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film .
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salma goes native and she 's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon .
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fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment .
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it 's a movie forged in the fires of chick flick hell .
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a 'girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that .
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a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie .
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better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine .
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a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy need n't always make us laugh . tim story 's not there yet - but 'barbershop ' shows he 's on his way .
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the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites .
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thoroughly enjoyable .
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whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like .
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much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be .
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evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children -- and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good .
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like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten .
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if sinise 's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over .
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the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain .
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an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you 're getting its metaphysical point .
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schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler 's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad .
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the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment .
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the screenplay sabotages the movie 's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable .
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an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of don simpson .
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what is 100 % missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting .
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straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it .
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ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . .
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the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone .
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little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick .
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barely gets off the ground .
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an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance .
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though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary .
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a taut , intelligent psychological drama .
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haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration .
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responsM-avel direto pelo fracasso 'artM-mstico ' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox nM-co consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquM-mssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade .
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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 .
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the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers .
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as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good .
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it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot .
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shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker 's bottomless pit of self-absorption .
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bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie .
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the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto 's luckiest stroke .
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the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people .
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the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that 's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion .
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