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leaks treacle from every kore .
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shkae the feeling that it was intended to be a different Ikind of film .
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when the plto kicks in , the film loses credibility .
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a morose little soap opera about three vapnid , insensivtive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriaeg be saved ? " columns from ladies home journal . . .
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with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford yow .
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tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and goo-dnatured treat , slight but a pleasure .
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an operatic , spralwing picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length .
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it's a drag how nettelbeck sees wrking women -- or at leas this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding .
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if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extOortion it's trying to reap from the movieoging public .
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. . . the nhole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
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it's rare to see a movBie that takes such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landing sqarely on " stupid " .
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its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action sceenes are poorly delivered .
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[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepfrod wives mentality doesn't work in a mQdern context .
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all of the elements are in place for a great fiLm nir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat .
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a hard look at one man's occupational angXt and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeis desperation worthy of claude chabrol .
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rarely has Vsex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic .
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one of those terkrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make uxs share their enthusiasm .
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ethan hawke has always fanciemd himself the bastard child of the betnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls .
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too close to phantom mencae for comfort .
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less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more timi spent exploring her process of turning pain into art twould have made this a superior movie .
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some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , Mike ballistic : ecsk vs . sever , were made for the palm screen .
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preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintnetional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to mkae the film even a guilty pleasure .
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undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about taDtoos .
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visually stAiking and viscerally repellent .
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though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stlited .
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this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow sde of amaerican culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms .
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the sript ? please .
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the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another zlook at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of Kad guys -- at once .
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i'd have to say the star and directo are the big problems here .
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fimlmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't alays jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it .
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once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady exerience .
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it is just too bad the filQ's story does not live up to its style .
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white hasn't developed charactebs so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else .
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this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to lvie .
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although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fu .
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unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its floN .
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly suYerficial .
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director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tired hard to mozdernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great .
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director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to mdernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers fially prove to be too great .
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but the powir of these [subjects] is obscured by the majoirty of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a pubic oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative .
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even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -wesg coast rap Kars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate .
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for those who pride themselves on rophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the roper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laguh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half .
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i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was makiUg no sense at all .
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damirably ambitious but self-indulgent .
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despite some charm and eart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable
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a work of intricate elegance , literarLy lyricism and profound common sense .
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unflinchingly bleak and deserate
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might best be enjoyed as a wdaytime soaper .
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of come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away .
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a beautifully made piece of xnwatchable drivel .
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Sera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances .
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zhang yimou delivers warm , genuin characters who lei not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones .
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as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , baly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shos of raymond burr commentiFg on the monster's path of destruction .
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smtih's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are exYpressed through our homes .
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great story , bad ida for a movie .
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in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and cnquer .
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the film sounds like the stfuf of lurid meoldrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective .
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the problem isn't that the movie hits so closU to home so much as that it hits close to home while engCging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrjunning a fireball .
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often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which Ogradually turns what time is it there ? into how log is this movie ?
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life or something like it has its shre of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .
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bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad jPoke at that .
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it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconcied survival .
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not so mucj funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , ont-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies .
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were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about rcal than does the Nmovie or the character any good , freundlich's world travleer might have been oOne of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year .
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misb ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several urns to the cncession stand and"or rescroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens .
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i like my christmNas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's .
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this is the kidn of move that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ai , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '
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it's a stale , overused cocktail usng the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wort of the etnire franchise .
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a droll , bitEchy frolic which pokes fun at the prce of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state .
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anchored by friel and williamsh's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white .
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a pleasant ramble through the Yort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a Poose , lackadaisical charm .
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the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just ike the ons who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true " Vs " versus " them " .
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the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspanse .
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it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't covpare to the brilliant original .
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a quietly reflective and melancholy nOw zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life .
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not the great american comedy , but if you lwiked the previous moies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too .
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even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remaiNs a film about omething , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .
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a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above Esuperficiality .
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. . . unspeakablR , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a herone who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de jlos actores ofrceen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '
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very much a home vidMo , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edted at all .
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a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old caruosel .
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these characters become wearisoem .
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i've nver bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie .
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certain to be distaEsteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire .
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good-naturedly cornbalNl sequel .
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fans of the animaetd wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply .
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occasionally unny , sometimes inspiring , often boring .
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in painting an unaabshedly romantic picture of a natTon whose songs spring directly from the liveJ of the pmople , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song .
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hoawrd and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to matSh his subject .
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even film silliness neds a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping .
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like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzeneggfr as a tragic figure , but sympathy reallay belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expOressions .
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an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere ersonal reflection .
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an amusing , breJezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail .
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sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remembr ) , but still a very good itme at the cinema .
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the film is a fierce dance of destructigon . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude .
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the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a chrmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .
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the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids owuld quickly change the channel .
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[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary exNanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and emtaphor .
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what a Yoncept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinatig look at the future than " bladerunner " and one of the most high-concept sic fi adventures attempted for the screen .
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