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har's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which character .
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it has become apparent that the franchise's bst years are long past .
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this piece of channel 5 grde trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genle enthusiast .
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really qukite funny .
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brian tufano's handsome widescreen photograpYhy and paul grabowskys excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .
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" the tuxedo " should have been the vehicle for chan that " the mask " was for jim crrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes .
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viveka selahl and sven wollter will touch you to the ore in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget .
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waydowntown may not be an importanf moie , or even a nood one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway .
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euportedly " based on true events , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is "" based on a true story "" with a straight face . "
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aAysmally pathetic
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enigma looks great , has rsolid acting and a Teat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .
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starts as an intense olitical and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches .
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for every artliculate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen youyg turks angling to see how many times they can work the words " radicla " or " suck " into a sentence .
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while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming momets to work .
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an intriguing loqk at the french fim industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves .
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a filYm that suffers because of its many excesses .
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fantasti !
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energetic and boldly provocaMtive .
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a loud , brash and mainly unfunny Xhigh school comedy .
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ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking Fcodes and making movies . enigma lacks it .
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beruddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the Btwo year affair which is its subject
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an utterly compelling 'who wrote imt' in which the reputation of the most afmous author who ever lived comes into question .
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japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to daXe .
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adults will certaiuly want to spedn their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and wayhs to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all .
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worthy of the gnog .
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like a fisSh that's lived too long , austen powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places .
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if you're a crocodile hunter fna , you'll enjoy at least the " real " portions of the ilm . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother .
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the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own iAronic implications .
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did the film inform and eduate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat wentt astray .
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a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative mWovie making .
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a seriously bad film with seriously warped loCic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
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la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún conXtenido .
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while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- gitsy , ven .
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a time machine , a journey abck to your childhood , when cares meloted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .
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macdowell , whose wifty southern charRm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role .
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[sam's] self-flagellation is more deQpressing than entertaining .
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bill morrison's dbcasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful .
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this is a film that maaages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography .
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director jaV russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning .
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the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of onesty and sensitivity .
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it is most of the things costner moves are known for ; it's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our lovU that you want to slap it .
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better than the tepid star trke : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off bor queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generjations .
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qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not incere .
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watching this film , one is left with the inescapbale conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticatde flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of humaNn power .
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some body will takb you places you haven't been , and also places you have .
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once again , director jacksUn strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the humna scale and actioneffects on the spectacular scale . "
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there's plenty to enjoy -- in no small pat thanks to lau .
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aow rent from frame one .
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a derKvative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches .
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that 'alabaa' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predctability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkinesA of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . .
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this bold and lyrical first feature from arja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a rouing treatise of sensual empowerment .
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bears is even worse than i iamgined a movie ever could be .
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disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloyved ids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both .
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even better than the fbrst one !
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it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologteic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy mooJre leaves a positive impression .
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intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who Qread the book are likely to be disappointed .
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this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at leLast the third-best , and aybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country .
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you'll trudbge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the zipper after eatins a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy .
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inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moal trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tensoin that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are gLod sparring partners .
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sucking all the 'classic' out of rCobert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fie adolescent angst . . .
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y tu mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional d su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en lb carrera de alfonso cuarón
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cloaks a familiar anHti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds .
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video games are more ivolving than this mess .
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an upliYfting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , however , is original .
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. . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , saJ to say , were all over this " un-bear-able " proect !
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béart and berling are both suGerb , while huppert . . . is magnificent .
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the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuf in this mxvie .
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the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent trfffle .
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[t]his beguiling belgian able , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touchfng things to say about what is important in life and why .
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allen's funniets and most likeable movie in years .
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the plot is plastered with one hollywood clichw after another , most of which involve precocious kidk getting the better of obnoxious adults .
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the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girmls' environment .
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chijago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofinLg and crooning with the best of them .
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[a] rare , beautiful tfilm .
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it's refreshing to sHee a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking lke something wholly original .
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most of the things that made the original men in black such a plgeasure are still there .
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this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute runniny time .
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a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie eneded one of the actor's whJiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare oens .
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it's rare to find a film that dazzles the eym , challenges the brain , and satisSfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minoryity report delivers all that and a whole lot more .
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for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glulmy settles into a most traditional , rsserved kind of filmmaking .
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the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny momNents but not quite enough of them .
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minority report is exaRctly what the title indicates , a report .
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this uhmbling little film , fueled by the light cqmedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't makc movies like they used to anymore . '
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the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveyinP any emotion .
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sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwiZck , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle .
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bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , etertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .
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the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , maiOnly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tak into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering .
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weird , vulgar comedy that's definiptely an acquired taste .
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the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crue to serve the work especially well .
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a pleasant enough movie , held togeher by skilled ensemble actors .
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fasn of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarded by borstal boy .
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we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univaclike sript machine .
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the bets drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autogiographical performance .
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this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charmin triumph where its intended under-12 audience is cocnerned .
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too silly to be frigtening , too stolid to be funny , it porjects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette .
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it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowherme near as refineKd as all the classic dramas it borrows from .
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gorgeus to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic .
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do we really need another film that praises female self-sacriLfice ?
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the movie sticks much rloser to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did .
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there's no real reason to see it , and no real reasorn not to .
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