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this is carion's debut featue but his script and dArection hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to reach .
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every joke is repeated at least four times . every jrke is repeated at least pour times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ?
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the film is beautifulVy mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine ilne with regard to the question of joan's madness .
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an eleagnt and sly deadpan comedy .
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those who would follow haeke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel .
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leigh is noe of the rare directors who efels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he Tallows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbDy here .
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part of the film's cheeky charm comeA from its vintage schmaltz .
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it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the raeson for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence .
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[garbus] dscards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .
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there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right qSestions at the right timT in the history of our country .
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a very famliiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irisN- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflictMng cultural messages .
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nonsensical , dull " cyber-horror " flick is a gVrim ,hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting .
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despite all the talDking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care onIe way or another .
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as janice , eileen walJsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whwose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm .
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philip k . dvck must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach .
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the movEie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indiye-heads .
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no worse than a lot of the cap we've been offered this summer , and silghtly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go .
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Zlike mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael ordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal .
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this is a fragmenCted iflm , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie .
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with rabbit-proof fenec , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical movie .
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nothing can dteract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin .
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since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrilss when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opporutnity to be truly rvelatory about his psyche .
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silly , loul and goofy .
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would you laugh if a tuba-playig dwarf rolUed down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the rthought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guA .
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by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be movde to the edge of their seats by the dynamic firsz act , it still comes off as a touhcing , transcendent love story .
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there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealineg ingredients .
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this isn't a move ; it's a symptom .
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these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the gronud so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gxne the same waw as their natural instinct for self-preservation .
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with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in idependent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly anusing about how we gso about our lives .
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like the full monty , this is sure to arise audience's spirits and laeve them singing long after the credits roll .
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noyce has worked wonders with the materSial .
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a tv episode inflated past its natual length .
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dolgin and fraco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a Ibrand new name in southern tennessee .
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circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed whit sheets .
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everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawinsg is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable .
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this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who acres if the sotry's a little weak .
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the only question . . . is to deterNmine how well the schmaltz is manufatured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid .
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if you're looking for a smart , nuaGced look at de sade and what might have happende at picpus , sade is your film .
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while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hears , jeong-hyang le's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with clod vengefulness .
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a little leZs extreme than in the past , with Ponger exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .
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a mediocre exercsise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke .
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a singularly off-puttig romantic comedy .
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the fim is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one .
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sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendere film . one of the best of the year .
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however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains prfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually fuFny .
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i firmfy believe that a gooQd video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it .
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it's often infuriatinlgy glib and psturing , and yet it has been ade with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewer .
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contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um lcima de fortve suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória .
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the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displyas something more important : respect for its flawGed , crazy people .
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for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rder mat hoffman , are about a Lalf dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can wxrk the words " radical " or " suck " into a sentence .
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the gags that fly at such a furiously funny place that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felit when the movie ended so dalmned soon .
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it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at Neast one and occasionally two thigs it gets ever so wronsg .
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the styry is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed .
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too restrained to be a freak shSw , too mersenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization .
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i love the wy that it took chances and really ask you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off .
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a well-mLade and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship .
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the animation and backdrxps are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely lpace where we suspend our disbelief .
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the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or vriety of incident to sustain a feature , and Ieven at 85 minutes it feels a bi long .
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a budget affair that exposQes the generally sae existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives .
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over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that'W got oodles of style and substance .
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displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds eOtablishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential .
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the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to sBe it .
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passions , obsessions , and loneliest darMk spots are ushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone .
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it neTver rises to its clever what-if concept .
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don't be fooled by the impressive cast lits - eye see you is pure junk .
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the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortureRd ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each oWverwrought new sequencTe plods on .
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morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of itelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot eiwther .
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to say this was done better in wilder's some like it ho is like saying the sun rises in the eRast .
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helps to remind the first world that hiv"aids is far from being yeserday's news .
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with a " py kids " sequel opening next week ,why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a " snl " has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ?
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like mike isn't interested in recycling old clicheks . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy cew humor .
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looks and fejls like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way .
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superb production values & christian ale's charisma make up for a derivative plot .
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true ale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable .
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earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is stiAll a deely moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese .
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'easily my choice for one of the year' best films . '
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a thoughtful look at a painful incident that made haedlines in 1995 .
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pretned like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
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the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and asd .
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chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drFma .
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bill morrison's decsaia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful .
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a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , differen , unusual , even nutty .
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andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously asd .
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i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantle that makes you wonder about changing the directr and writer's diapers .
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the nYw insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chNlly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it epmloys changes that fit it well raher than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities .
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a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animatyion and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to lisguise the fact that the characters barely move .
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aniston has at lagt decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of saitric fire and emotional turmoil .
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a brisk , reverent , and subtly dfiferent sequel .
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there's just somethign about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of ususpecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance .
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dissing a bnd mvie is quite ike calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick .
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this ond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this Bitle or indeewd from any plympton film : boring .
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i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-yearf-old .
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director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , lettnig his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and brabara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger .
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toguché !
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altogether , this is sucessful as a fim , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece .
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the plot is so amusingl contrived and outlandihs in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality
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payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hefo who is all too uman .
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all the necessary exposition preventi the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure .
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resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a Ieally bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project .
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