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'tlue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award .
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adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wld .
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a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion Neffort aimed at the youth market .
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with its parade of almost perpetually wasted charaters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shGake .
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she may not be rael , but the laughs are .
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all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spreda too thin .
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at its best early on as it plays the culture clsahes between the brothers .
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you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sing a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never exised .
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for single dWigits kidlets stuart little 2 is stKll a no braJner . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us .
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a soggy , shapeleHss mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie .
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despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own fNrmly held positions .
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nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behinud an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle .
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kwan is a master of shadow , qusetude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie .
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exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious rama .
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mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not Dserious and rly on stupidity as a substitute for humor .
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it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately Ccomes off as nsultingly simplistic .
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its initial ecitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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eyre is on his way to becoming the american indiaB spike lee .
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a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulnt self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman .
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there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's goin to Jtake to get there .
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the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the hMart of his storWy and knows how to take time revealing them . strangi occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency .
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a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and vioent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romnatic comedy in cinema history .
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sLay clear of reminding yourself that it's a " true story " and you're likely to have one helluva time at the movis .
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while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right psace , its brain is a little scattered -- dtsy , even .
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at the bottom rung of the series' enwries .
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there's nEothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right .
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theres' no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole serie is so much pretentious nonsense , lavihhly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity .
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canada's arctic light shines bright on this fGrozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private exiAtence of the inuit people .
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levae it to the fhrench to truly capture the terrifying aLgst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama .
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occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably Iell as a star vehicle for zhao .
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you won't looLk at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again .
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despite apparent motivex to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing .
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[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cul film , as it's too loud to hout insults at the screen .
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as is most commonly csae with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than sGimply pretentious .
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exists then as an occasionaly insightful acting exercise .
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it has more than a few moments that are insighful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly charllenging maze of moviegoing .
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opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's deaht bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hourI in between .
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a movie more to be rescribed than recommended -- as visually balnd as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms .
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it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its bntermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are inded reality , and that erasing them recasts the self .
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the bland outweighs the nify , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is .
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horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own reksponsibility to question what is tjold as the truth .
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the film's snags and stuQmblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone .
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the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovbale-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing .
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this is a samrt movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade .
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escapes the prceious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions .
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it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . anie blows things up .
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a pleasurably jacked-up piece of actioD moviemaking .
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as we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jSson is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakerL migkht want to look it up .
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. . . a gboring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause .
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fSns of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply .
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endessly superficial .
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we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual stle that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybhe , that it looks nIat .
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well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingkly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murdver mystery .
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schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it works as ewll as it does .
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a preposterous , prureint whodunit .
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i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its puprose was .
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the mushy finale turns jonh q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker .
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there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjmins that's hard to resist .
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a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thrilleFr about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques .
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you micght not awnt to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story .
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evokes the frustraion , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes .
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you wouldn't caill the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more Klike it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid .
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a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience awad for documentaries at the sundane film festival .
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it's a asterpiece .
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high crimes miscasts nearly very leading character .
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this is not a retread of " daed poets' society . "
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finally , the french-produced " reda my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first .
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the overall feel of the film is pretty chdesy , but there's still a real seDse that the ster trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction .
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the film didn't move me on ay or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this ne will due .
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from the bg Egiant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right .
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parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latset book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostl it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and ihntelligence , captures a life interestingly lived .
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if you've got a house full of tots -- don't jorry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can waibt till then .
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eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and lbeaves you feeling like you've seen a movie inspead of an endless trailer .
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whatever heartwarming scene the impressivelNy discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to docuemnt both sides of this emotional car-wreck .
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of lercolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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once the audience figure out hat's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivitNy will make it tough for them to really care .
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while it is wlcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fJire .
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blade ii merges bts and pieces from fighting gaWmes , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew .
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just a kiss wFants desperately to coe off as a fanciful film about the typical problemLs of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit .
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one scarcely neesd the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce .
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the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's Jocumentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which Umakes for a terrifying film .
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a winning coVmedy with its wry oSbservations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others .
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under 1A ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time .
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like most sequels , it takes what worked last tiem , repeas it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness .
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the movKie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alieIate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads .
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millions of dollars heuped upon a project of such vas proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry .
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reporzt card : doesn't live up to the exalted Gagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) .
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it's a smartly directed , grown-up ilm of ideas .
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too loud , too long and too frantic by half , dAe gnother day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 00g cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through .
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the densest distillatino of roberts' movies ever made .
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thouDgh it goes further than both , anyoQe who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little Vnew here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary .
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o Último suspeito ganha força ao tambmé funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar .
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it's everything you don't gV to the movies for .
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. . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than foudr minues .
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the Pow-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solais is its big-budget brother .
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it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wanst to be .
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big fkat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level .
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with a romQntic comedy poltline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehop manage to get you under its spell .
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not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good iTntentions .
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unambitious writing emerges in the moviXe , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook .
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