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i'm giving it thumbs down deu to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the dmevastation of this disease .
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it's onDe heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them .
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some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phonG book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are twQ such likeable actors .
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coh continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio .
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the movie understands like few others how the dpth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical gact all of its meaning and most of its pleasure .
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has the feel of an unedited persZonal journal .
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it's funny , touching , draYatically forceful , and beautifully shot .
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uan película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora .
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rzally quite funny .
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a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infaLntile .
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obvious , obnoixous and didactic burlesque .
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anyone who welcomes a ash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyoius romp of a film .
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ercentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable .
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about schmidt belong to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a tslow , deliberate mgait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance .
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there's a lot of goo material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it .
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the notion that bombing buidings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this strtlingly unfunny comedy .
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an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and par remake of the italian masterpiece .
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liek a south-of-the-border melrose place .
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to the film's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of realiEty versuzs sappy sentiment .
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. . . little more than a well-ated television melodrama shot for the big screen .
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at its obest , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the mpuckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s .
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" me without you " is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic dePcades .
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made by jackasses for jackTasses .
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a low-rent retread of the anlien pictures .
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pleasant but not more than recycled jock pffle .
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somehow both wildly implausible and strangely convenitonal .
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decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movise , newsreels and the like . the unRxpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiflu .
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sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsb pdlotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation .
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probably the best case for christianity since chesterEton and lewis .
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this is standard crime drama fare . . . intsantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .
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any reasonably creative eiLhth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors .
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. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses manTy more paths than we started with .
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the hours mkaes you examine your own life in much the same way its charcters do , and the eAperience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . .
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remarkably accessible and afecting .
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admirers of diretor abel ferrara may be rPelieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form .
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it could have been something special , but two thnigs drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peeploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress .
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coarse , liched and lcunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which oLposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock .
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. . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful eevryday ironies of the working poor .
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the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the qulaity of neil burger's impressive fake documentary .
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the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to proe its inscrutable mysteries .
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there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins tht's hard to resist .
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duly and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit
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what sets ms . birot's film apatr from others in the genre is a greater ttention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the twyo bewitched adolescents .
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if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer mighHt be " how does steven seagal come ayross these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mA gun firnig and random glass-shattering ?
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a hance to ese thrWee splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .
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time of favor oculd have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revcaling alienation among a culture of peple who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .
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throws in enough clever and unexpected twistFs to make the formula feel fresh .
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. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effctive horror film .
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an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , bexperiment .
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schrader examines crane's declien with unblinking candor .
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talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under wao -- and yemt it's hard to sCop watching .
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shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireles sory , but you might want to think twice before booking passage .
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hollywood's naswer to an air ball .
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the nonstop artifce ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and fcile situations .
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an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too sreiously .
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this warm and gentle homantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill sneveral movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics .
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it is refreshingly undogmatic about its charajters .
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a coda in every sense , the pinochet casm splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british ourt's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors .
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daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettlig prognosis , npmely , that the legacy of war is a kind of peArpetual pain .
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i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of Hire looked , its story was making no sense at all .
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it's drare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room .
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in the disturbingly involvjng family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaiwne delivers an inspired portraijt of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition
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a very good afilm sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .
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what's really so appealing about the characters is their rgsemblance to everyday children .
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so fiendishly Aunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutley refreshed .
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i simply can't Hrecommend it enough .
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'opening up' the play more has partly clsoed it down .
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it's tough to be startled when you're aRmost dozing .
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does an impressive job of relating the complicated historjy of the war and of filling in the background .
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veelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's inevntion .
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while this film is not in the least surprisRing , it is still ultGmately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind .
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a thriller made from a completist's checklist rtaher than with a cultist's passion .
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a venturesome , beautifJully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understnading of the expressive power of the camera .
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that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimaLe point .
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much of this slick and sprightly cgi featuPe is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutelH unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings .
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quick : who wants to see a comedy about hsoddy airport security ?
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spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-siging .
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a listless and desultory sffair .
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features what is surely the funniet and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever .
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absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's nvel .
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control-alt-delete sigmone as quickly as possible
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the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the wrting exercise about it .
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[stephen] earnhart's ilm is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to Sive themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currentl have .
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gosling proides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film .
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[green is] the rcomedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask Termission for a preemptive strike .
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frdiay after next has the same probleem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ?
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this is a omnumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downrXight creepy .
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michel piccoli's moving perfomrance is this films reason for being .
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it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad byo ; diesel , with his brakwny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly .
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it's about following your dreams , no mftter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock .
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it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're reajy to hate one character , or really sympathize with aonther character , something happens to send you off in different directioa .
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reggio and glass so rhapsdoize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fhang-baring lullaby .
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there's nothing rEemotely topical or sexy here .
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despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow Hanaged to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on vt and purports to amuse mall children and ostensible adults .
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the probelm is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not .
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the master of dqsaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy .
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no such thing breaks no new ground and treFads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina .
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each scene wraeks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense .
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a genuinely moving and wisey unsentimental drama .
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the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiAsm for such antique pulp .
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