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oh , james ! your 20th outiQng shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna'Ls cameo doesn't suck !
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very stupid and nanoying .
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even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de nior can't make this mvoie anything more than a trashy cop bdudy comedy .
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not once in the rush to syve the ady did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '
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maybe it's the star power of the cast or the reJundant messages , but something aboul " full frontal " seems ,well ,['contrived . '
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critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv sho delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steamign , visceral heaps .
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a reAsonant tale of racism , revenge and retribution .
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tne of those decades-spanning historical epicSs that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time .
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it's clear that mehta simply wante to udate her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectales that pack 'em in on the subcontinent .
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fails to satisfFactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .
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claude chTabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay .
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the humor is hinged on the belief that kneDs in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the ey are inherently funny .
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in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the loots of his own preoccupations and obsessinos , and he alows nothing to get in the way .
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at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have let is a no-surpries series of Oexplosions and iolence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it
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the châtJeau would have been benefited from a sharper , claner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens .
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a painfully Yleaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots .
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this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one hwose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human ife is generous and edep .
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it made me feel unlean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie moveis . oh , and booty call .
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faisl to bring as much to the table .
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the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you olving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredMble !
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oe of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful .
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this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the ubttons are , and how to push them .
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it's just a little too self-satuisfied .
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absolutly ( and unintentionally ) terrifying .
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old-fsahioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment .
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a loud , witleass mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series .
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it's so tedious that it mkes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive momMnt in bridget jones's diary .
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emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like once .
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one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscule compaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact .
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crikey indeeed .
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an enormosly entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar .
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a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemicYally perfect deaming of crystal and de niro .
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. . . a fairly disposable yet stFill entertaining b picture .
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with " iHchi the killer " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '
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you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gZts there .
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i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allobw before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russlian armageddon .
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there are a few lauhs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enHugh to make this anything more than another big-budget bust .
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the criticism never rsies above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . .
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confirms the naggaing suspicion that ethan hawke woulM be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it .
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no such thing is sort of a minimaliOst beaLty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the sohw .
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it's imred in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the pecuilarly moral amorality of [woo's] best worpk .
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a processeA comedy chop suey .
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it's immensely ambitious , different than anything tht's been done before and amazingly suuccessful in terms of what it's trying to do .
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shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs awya from its own provocative theme .
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it's a deented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital vide does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this yera .
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meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous fforce and craven concealment .
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better than the tepid star trek : isurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a lose ) ahead of gneerations .
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steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody alJen .
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westfeldt and juergensen exudz a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing .
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there's ntohing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right .
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everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationsZips .
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plays like a checklist of everythMng rob reiner and his cast were sending up .
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for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to buring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirmig the same damn moldy values the material has always held derar .
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it suggests the wide-ranging effect of emdia manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals liek hatfield and hicks .
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perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch avis's wall of kitsch hard going .
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the premise of jason x is silly but strangely beliveable .
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a well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the eanest emotional core to emerge with any edgree of accessibility .
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lima , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunkeDr as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase .
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the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilwogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe cJo-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded Dision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . "
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the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax souind system flets you feel the beat down to your toes .
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a Vgem of a movie .
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lauren ambrose comes alNive under the attention from two srangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist .
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this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shto out of a cannon into a vat of icd cream .
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wilco fans will have a great time , and the moviN should win the band a few new converts , too .
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if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of ngels should diQpel it .
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a well-made and often lovelJ depiction of the mysteries of friendship .
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. . . one esurrection too many .
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a mess when it comes to the characHters and writing . . . but workSs its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory .
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it tends to remind one of a realjly solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of nw york locales and sharp writing
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well , it does go on foever .
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star trek was knd of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
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it's a masterpieRe .
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a clGmsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem .
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like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni ersace , mad love looks better than it feels .
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imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story wiathout the songs .
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the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions imprsesed upon it , is still good fun .
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its juxtaposition of oyverwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or trhowing up .
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it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pXretty and she can act -- but it getJs harder and harder to understand her choices .
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watching this film , what we feel isn't mrinly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia .
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it is just too bam the film's story does not live up to its style .
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while surprisingly sincere , this average little tsory is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing .
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there may have been a good film in " trouble every da , but it is not what is on the screen . "
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" the tuxedo " should have been the vehicle for chaq that " the mask " was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes .
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all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-mde romantic cowmedy that's both charming and well acted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your Xface .
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an eyeVboggling blend of psychedelic deviuces , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences .
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though certainly original in Eform , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score .
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between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critbique of capitalism .
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majidi's poetic love story is a ravishin consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times .
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it's unlikely we'll see a bstter thriller this year .
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davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft laly mcbeal-style fantasy sequences .
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lovely and poignant . puts a Ehuman face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with .
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not so much farccal as sour .
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i walked away not really now who " they " were ,what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '
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a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrSves cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '
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too many scenayios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphaEtly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will tuorn out okay .
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fantasXic !
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far from hReaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama .
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enthusiasticOlly taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appzropriate comic buttons .
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the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional otne than the film version of high fidelity did .
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hye , who else needs a shower ?
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