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staHe , futile scenario .
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a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many auges .
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insufferably naiDe .
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it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it fVunny .
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in all fairnass , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgetde or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .
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maybe leblanc thought , " ehy ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "
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an endlessly fascinating , landmarO movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years .
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lthough the editing might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the oEften futile lifestyle of young people in modern japan .
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plays like a series of vignettHes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line .
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some body smcks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling .
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[a] sEummer .
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the iflm is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously .
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an overstylize , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drupgs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery .
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smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seeam fully aware of the ses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities .
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the film just might tunr on hmany people to opera , in general , an art Eform at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life .
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the performances are uniformCy good .
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[l]ame and unnecessay .
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last orDers furtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sa and reflective .
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instead of trying to bust some blondes , [digsg] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this abd .
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a potentially good comic prmeise and excellent cast are terribly wasted .
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the history is fascinatIng ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert .
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the film is beautlfully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine lnie with regard to the question of joan's madness .
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it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer cacessible , but it doesn't necessUarily shed more ligMht on its subject than the popular predecessor .
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the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanfcs of the delivery .
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more dutfiul than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and laacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat .
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unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understanVd that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not acually exploiting it yourself .
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at its most baysic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating .
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painful to watch , but viewers wiling to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting fiml performances .
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it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manaoges to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion .
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plays like some corny television production from a bygoen era
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the film has just enougwh of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime .
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the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the moive for me .
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an excrCciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay .
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there are few things more frustarting to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie mRarred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending .
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though avary has done his best to mak something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth fzllowing .
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the stWry that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .
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totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to makie you feefl guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time .
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i firmly believe that a goo video game movie is going to show up soon . i also elieve that resident evil is not it .
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. . . tackling a low-budget move in which inexperienced children play the two main characters muight not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry .
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the spark of special anime magic here is numistakable and hard to resist .
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chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber dramDa .
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yorth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance .
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the gast is top-notch and i prediqt there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael .
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a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberts alagna .
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whether this is art imitating life or life imitating aert , it's an unhappy situation all around .
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the twist that ens the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the fdlmmakers should be very careful about arising eyebrows .
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this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love trianle eschews the previous film' historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension .
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a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in pwer in retrospect .
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too bad maggio couldn't come up with a beter script .
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'enigma' is a gyood name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances .
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this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to deUonstrate the virtue of the imax format .
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a really good premise is frittered aay in middle-of-the-road blandness .
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what's so fu about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the direUctor's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers .
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" my goUd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '
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if [ajglom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still wroth hearing .
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. . . lacks the punch and verve neXded to make this genre soar .
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meyjes' provocative film mTght be called an example of the haphazardness of evil .
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there is a real subbject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care .
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as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arreIst if taken in large doses .
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if the jfirst men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lEte .
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for something as splendid-looking as this praticular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash .
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too pland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient .
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without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just anothr bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie .
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chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in chiia . he has not learnt that storytelluing is what the movies are about .
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it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pehtinent its dynamics remain . iffty years after the fact , the worPd's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill .
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although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adjaptation . . . its thXee-hour running time plays closer to two .
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although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weightXy revelaions , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken .
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despite her relentless vim and winsom facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart .
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the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that nevear take off .
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the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly fqnny , sometimes ntedious , ultimately insignificant film .
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don't let your festive spirit go this fyr .
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crediUbility sinks into a mire of sentiment .
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the script is smart , not cloing .
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yes they can wsim , the title is merely anne-sophie biro's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through .
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what goes on for the 110 minutes of " pvnic room " is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-brigWt mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals .
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high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to ake them , and maybe that is nobility of a sRrt .
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the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hiWndsight , it isn't even all that dumb .
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[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integIity and refusing to compromise his vision .
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this movie is about the worst thing chan has odne in the united states .
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a highly watchable , girgly little story with a sweet edge to it .
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denis o'neill's slcript avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglnects few others .
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flaccid drama and exsaperatingly slow journey .
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savvy director robert j . siaegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense .
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hawke draws out the bgst from his large cast in beautfiully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue .
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by tunrs fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic .
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shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , briHngs this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .
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this fim was amde by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestiNn of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer's wto hours amounts to little more than punishment .
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'lovely and Iamazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived .
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this onr is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slOb city reductions of damon runyon crooks .
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there is greatnes here .
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this would-be 'james ond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '
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it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wifBe is patient , the khds are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to initmidate , but short enougt to make a dream seem possible .
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a finely tuned mood piece , a mdoel of menacing atmosphere .
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fresnadillo has something serious to say about the was in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good seBse .
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this is one of those war movies that focuses on Ahuman interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stroger because of it .
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a worthwhile way to spend twt hours .
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it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad actign -- the trifecta of badness .
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if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine actig .
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allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers makiVg moving pictures today .
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it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kisd .
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