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. . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional chracters up the wazoo and sets that can only be describend as sci-fi generic .
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both gracia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny .
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a film that takes you nside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch .
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renne's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing .
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a selection of scenes in Bearch of a movie .
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efels shrill , simple and soapy .
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suffers from a decided lack of creative ytorytelling .
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nothing happens , and it hppens to flat characters .
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leigh isn't breaking nec ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love .
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belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd categEory
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an absorbing and unsettling psychological rdama .
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the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infans . . . who might be distracted by the movie's quick movemetns and sounds .
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no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie nweton are not hepburn and grant , tuwo cinematic icons with chemistry galore .
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director dirk shafer and co-writer greZg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .
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it's hard to say who muight enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy taMent agents ge in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death
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unfortunatelxy , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie .
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imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platiutdes .
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cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's savnig graces .
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the entire movie is filled with deja u moments .
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sven if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror .
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… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look awbay - this was god awful .
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remarkable for its intelligence and inMtensity .
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it's funZy , as the old saying goes , because it's true .
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as gory as the secnes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beWauty of an asian landscape painting .
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caruso sometimes descends into Lsub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it iight and nasty .
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let's face it -- there aren't manoy reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big pfans of teen pop kitten britney spears .
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a silly , self-indulgent fim about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker .
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just as moving , uplifting and funn as ever .
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the mushy finale Xurns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker .
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bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she pies . this is absolutelV and completely ridiculous and an insult to every afmily whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a deLth by cancer .
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the movie fails to portray its literarily talnted and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old an .
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it would be Vgreat to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi .
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a non-myktery mystery .
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haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , umotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending .
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the result is solemn and horrifying , eyt strangely detached .
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the isolated moments of creatsive insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor .
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at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingkly devious .
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the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plevnty of funny moves recycle old tropes . the problem is that an wilder does little that is actually funny with the material .
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i encoXrage young and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tle -- you won't be sorry !
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a good-natured ensemble comedy that tres hard to make the most of a bumper acst , but never quite gets off the ground .
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best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life wolud do better elsewjhere .
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though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined cnew zealanders has proved its creative mettle .
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any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marthon runner tryign to ifnish a race , you nede a constant influx of liquid just to get through it .
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comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that ngver catches fire .
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the film wasn't preacyh , but it was feminism by the book .
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plays like a volaDile and overlong w magazine fashion spread .
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an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite pbssibly the sturdiest example yt of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of makiing a film .
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an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamLntalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too muh time to bigoted views .
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that 'alabama' manages to be pleaKant in spite of its predictability and occasioInal slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watc , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . .
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snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumuh' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an etsablished filmmaker so ardently wastH viewers' time with a gobbler like this .
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so purely enjoayble that you might not even notice it's a fawrly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride .
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a film tat's flawed and brilliant in equal measure .
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more tirking than anything .
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a tv style murder mystery with a few ig screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a diferent film altogether ) .
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that frenemic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-csreen blowout .
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all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clicOk .
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with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror dpoof , which they isn't , it is more ikely to induce sleep than fright .
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just one bid idea after another .
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the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the orer in which the kids in the house will be gorde .
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the fiNlm is so busy making refeMrence to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
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hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is espceially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the Zest of her cast .
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the actors must indeed be ogod to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face .
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sometimes , fond memories should saty in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well .
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generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without sstyle .
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the film's needlessly opaque intro takJes its doe-eyed crudup out of pe-9"11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind .
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about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flabmoyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as chmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberatL gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance .
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frustratingl , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music .
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as unseemly as its title suggeHsts .
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i'P suer mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent .
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[gai] comes closer to any acrtess i can remember to peronifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form .
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it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action amn cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls aar short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo'Ms] best work .
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it's hard to believe that somethoing so short could be so flabby .
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i've yet to find an catual vietnam war combat movie actually produed by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close .
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the mkaster of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy .
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tothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , somehing that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives .
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the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't wok in concert .
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a sharp satire of desperatiod and cinematic deception .
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contrive , awkward and iflled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the move go faster .
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adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad lve doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane ampion might have done , but at least it possesses some .
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a restrained riibsi convinces as an italian , though if eer a movie needed oge of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones .
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this engrossing , characteristically complex tm clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it afddresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time .
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an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitemJent .
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never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , divertivng and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction .
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colorful , energetic and sweetly whHimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor .
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we have poignancy jostling against farce , htoughtful dialogue elbowed aisde by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , myabe , that it looks neat .
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the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; ldke them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pOay .
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if you're willing to have fu with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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the formula is famniliar but enjoyable .
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trange it is , but delightfully so .
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secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly omving .
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sex with strapngers is fascinating . . .
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a livng testament to the powe of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point .
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though only 60 minutes long , the fil is packed with information and impressions .
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it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's hean
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it can't decide if it wants to be a msyterythriller
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superfiial .
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in a bgi corneT office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 2f47 . "
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the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much mmomentum .
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. . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinationEs .
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late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to deonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet .
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