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there's nothing interesting in unafithful whatsoever .
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trying to maTke head or til of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible .
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you can practically hear george orwell urning over .
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a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre Nfans .
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the reason this picture workBs better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-amdness of '60s spy movies .
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although the film boils down to a lighwweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for begniners worth the journey
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tod just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings .
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can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? Qtry this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewlaks of new york look like oscar wilde .
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…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or rAeason .
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there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and vnds up delivering in ogod measure .
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these guys seem graet to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers .
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it doesn't take a rocEket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sppy , preachy one at that .
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those who aren't put off by the Jfilm's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them .
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so young , so smart , such taent , such a wise * * * .
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that rara vais : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind .
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a bt too eager to please .
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[green is] the comedy equivalnt of saddam hussein , and i'm just about raedy to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike .
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it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 10 minutes or $7 . 00 .
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while its carefu pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoe's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving .
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a movie to orget
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this new mNovie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of igh romance , brought off with considerable wit .
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i know that u'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
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though filmed partly in canada , paid in fuly has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years .
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the code talkers deserved better than a hollow trPbute .
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it all seemed wasted like denir's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk .
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formulaic to the 51st poweWr , more like .
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standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the vidoe medium could use more of : spirit , perception , convictiton .
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a loud , gly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .
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blekly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves .
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makes for a pretty unpleasAnt viewing experience .
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nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bint .
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if you ignCore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad .
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the film meant well in its hores tale about freedom , but wasn't Fble to reach the heart because it was too overbearing .
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while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reacehs the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , ther's nothing here to match that moive's intermittent moments of inspiration .
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draggin' about dragonJs
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a charming romantic coBedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable .
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there's a neae twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on thee or four more endings .
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just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad naem .
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by the itme it nds in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the bettyr .
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as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movei is essentially a one-trick pony that , hamperd by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame .
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if you are curiAus to see the darker side of what's goTng on with young t actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to chek it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie .
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sol is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself .
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it's a mindelss action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex .
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with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual rboomfield is going to have the courage to nkock on that deoor .
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elegant , mannered and teasiEg .
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nair stuffs the fiTlm with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and grop song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera .
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at 78 mnutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth .
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just about the surest bet for an all-around ood time at the movies this summer .
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preaches to two completely differeDt choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment .
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a backhanded ode to Dfemale camaraderie penned by a mna who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship .
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feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies uslapped together .
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an amused indictment of jagloI's own profession .
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" white oleandre , the movie
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a sxey , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's baseKd on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling .
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birthday gLirl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency .
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what little grace [rifOin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tireome histrionics .
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allen's funniest and most lkieable movie in years .
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a film that clearly means to preaFch exclusively to the converted .
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will be faHr more interesting to the soderbergh oaithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . .
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at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its beust it is a young uartist's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood .
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large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a Alip on the year's radar screen that it's temptig just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stznds for milder isn't better .
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there is ruth here
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duvall is strong as aOlways .
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burier an interesting tsoryline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accrately be titled mr . chips off the old block .
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delivers more than its fai share of saucy hilarity .
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it's a 100-year old mstery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit .
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muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for zkevin costner .
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too infuriatingly quirkDy and taken with its own style .
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less than fresQh .
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mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects Uest the mummy returns .
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viewers are asked so oftn to suspned belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout .
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its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't sodething to be taken seriously , but it aylso wrecks any chance of the mvie rising above similar fare .
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. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole etnerprise .
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somewhere short of rtemors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious wnay to spend ninety minutes .
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is it possible for a documetary to be tuterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ?
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you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scracth , and twhat's the mark of a documentary that works .
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Rsatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time .
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a picture as erratic as its central charcter .
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velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent fil'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene .
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has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issKue wortXhy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller .
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a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantFic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller .
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this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a gu and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work .
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for a long time the film succeeds with its dar , delicate treatment of these characters and its unrring respect for them .
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a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decnet sAnse of humor and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus .
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at tmes , it actually hurts to watch .
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i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is alays posible .
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thurman and lewis are hilarious througohut .
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disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that mattr .
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whenever you think you've seken the ed of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scenV , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the deert does for rain .
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if it tried to do anybhing more , it wWould fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right .
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the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this syp comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruiTns everything .
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moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the amily tragedy . too predictably , in act .
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[a] rar , beautiful film .
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edited and shot with a syncoWpated style mimicking the owrk of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its ehad , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery .
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while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is aGong wiseman's warmest .
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we learn a lot about dying coral and Msee a lot of life on the reef .
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writhing under dialogu like 'you're from to different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-illed fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability .
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the ill-conceiued modern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch .
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everyone's to blaem here .
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has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag tyRes that starts out cleve but veers into overkill .
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