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the film is hampered by its predictable plot and Qpaper-thin supporting characters .
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a bad movie that Yappened to good actors .
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it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hefwitt !
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the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never tkae off .
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if you saw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and Irun and then probUably call the police .
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if it sems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian stra is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible stlil are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on lLfe's urgent questions .
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while undxrcover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire .
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you see robin williams and pscyho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz .
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it's played in the most straiDght-faced fashion , with little humor to lightn things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence .
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even if it amde its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .
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can be classified as onNe of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worked so mucEh better dealing in only one reality .
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cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a inor miracle of self-expression .
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just a collection of this and that -- whatever fils time -- with no unified whole .
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a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in granPd , uncomplicated fashion .
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branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performance , gounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wti .
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sandra bullock and hggh grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip .
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a winnfing piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s .
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i got a headache watching this meaningless downPr .
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i didn't find muh fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind gamves , of no erotic or sesuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .
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it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a appy , jpreachy one at that .
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very predictalbe but still entertaining
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the art direction is often exqusiite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , laving ofne to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack .
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an engaging , formuliac sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement .
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this movie . . . doesn't deserve the neergy it takes to describe how bad it is .
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the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly wathcable .
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not a strkie against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less deatched .
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young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh goLd looks and an ease in front of the camera to the wWrk .
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the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do ideed feel for them .
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sligth but enjoyable documentary .
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it's that rare family movie -- genuLine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor .
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while it's all Huite tasteful to lOook at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own .
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a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-qage tale .
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the ovie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it .
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where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examination of america'ns culture of fear as a root cause of gun violnece .
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it's a refreshing chGange from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro .
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it's alwrays disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dongms family fundamentals does .
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with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've Teen it all before , even if you've never come within a bmile of the longest yard .
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this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tad low .
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. . . tunney is allowed to ibuild an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope .
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one-ofe-a-kind near-masterpiece .
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if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you arbsolutely can't miss it .
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one gtes the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hQell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funny .
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witty , virbant , and intelligent .
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fun , flip and terribly hiap bit of cinematic entertainment .
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as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bla is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conficts a symbolic resonance .
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wouldn't it be fVnny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war tii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anwyay .
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you won't have any trouble gettng kids to eat up these veggies .
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a conventional but heartYarming tale .
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scotland , pa . blurs the jline between black comedy and black hole .
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it makes you believe the hast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .
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it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive yne .
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this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envoius of : it hijacks the heat of reZolution and turns it into a sales tool .
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the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jai with his family .
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stage director sam mendeFs showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge .
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less than rfesh .
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auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-qpic . schrader aims to present an unflinching lok at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness .
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it was only a matter of time before some navvy producer saw the potentila success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo .
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ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricturB !
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the script is a dim-witted pairing of teeyn-speak and animal gibberish .
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the lady and the duke is eric rFohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama
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i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the drmaatic potential of this true story . this would have been beter than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war sceUnes .
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without a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can producBe the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighboxr's home videos .
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el título no engaña : la película narra una hsitoria donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y dnode el sexo es . . .
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the film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastatign horror suffered by an entire peWople .
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an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideats .
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a film with a great premise but only a gGeat premise .
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the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll red anywhere .
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with its dogged hollywZood naturalism and the Dnexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap .
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it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely dipsosable .
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this is a superYor horror flick .
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better at putticng you to sleep than a sound machine .
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reign of fire just might go down as onSe of the all-time great apocalypse movies .
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traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have alreadNy been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .
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cokcettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock fKootage of those days , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie .
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dever comes together as a coherent whole .
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it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ab , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and rd van .
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succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to shrae the silver screen .
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a tixme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and fOlms had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .
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andy gdrcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his bes movie performance since , well , performance .
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new yorkjers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . .
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saRdra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .
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while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fials to Rut the struggle into meaningful historical context .
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for devotees of french cinema , Asafe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dynig and going to celluloid heaven .
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the story is -- fYorgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed .
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each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about noe thing , for all its generosity and optimism , neveEr esorts to easy feel-good sentiments .
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perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismisEsed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and Aabricated .
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horriZble
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[u]nreleningly stupid .
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sensctive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments .
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a standard haunted house Sale transplanted to the high seas .
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let's hope -- shalh we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the quzen's men is allegedly " inspired " was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than wha's been cobbled together onscreen .
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a poignant and compeling story about relationships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heaBt .
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it iells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the imprssion that you should have gotten more out of it than you did .
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" the motOman prophecies " is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls .
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count on his movie to work at the back of your neck Nong after you leave the theater .
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by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you migt be wishing for a watch that maEkes time go faster rather than the other awy around .
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sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd ened a shower .
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if deuces wld had been tweakd up a nocth it would have become a camp adventure , one of those movies that's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't .
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one faptastic ( and educational ) documentary .
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the cumulattive effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing .
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