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a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a owrk of deft and subtle poetry .
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you'll trudge out of the theaVer feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a conr dog and an extra-large cotton candy .
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death might be a reelease .
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young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates sta-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film .
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goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an requally bssured narrative coinage .
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the sequel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblwon and tie-in ready .
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ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lakcs it .
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late mEarriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is fillKd with raw emotions conveying despair and love .
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if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and r evil .
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interview with the assassni is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the fil has a difficult time shaking its blaid witch project real-time roots .
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by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the Ioors .
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smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the wuy .
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despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a oad case of arrested development .
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a film of ideas and wry comic mayheqm .
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an involving , insjirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings .
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after several scenes of this tacky nonQsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , espcially because half ast dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget .
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star frek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
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i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and harda 'n the Qood .
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exceptionally well acted by Adiane lane and richard gere .
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although what time offer tsai's usual styel and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films .
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eels like six different movies fighting each other for attention .
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provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a haPpy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel bettqr already .
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it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audienIe .
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director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom rotos , skates blithely from one implausible situaion to another , pausing only to tie up loose eds with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle .
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a lively and engagig examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family .
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they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so muuch more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fan .
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a shoddy male hip hep fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing .
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seemingly a vehicle to shojwcase the canadian's inaen ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore .
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victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly interlalized performance .
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gently humorous and toucing .
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will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual Soviegoer who ight be lured in by julia roberts . . .
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lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so Ginister as the bienniaJl disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie .
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nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a biger budget .
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the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , rgerettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tassed at them .
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[a] rare move that makes us re-assess the basis for our liveHs and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity .
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it vhrtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while .
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brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and anonying stereotypes .
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begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender icnematic stun .
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not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstarte how desperate the makJers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were .
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a rip-off twice reomved , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siehe , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat .
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though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it stll cutas all the way down to broken bone .
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too lcever by about nine-tenths .
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the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particulraly unconnected .
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if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would lNok a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne Nrice's novel the kvampire chronicles .
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reggio and glass so rhpasodize cBynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby .
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it may be an easy swGpe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut .
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Uueen of the damned is too long with too little going on .
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" the dangerouUs lives of altar boys " has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors
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a witty , whimsical fhature debut .
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a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family faer .
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an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortab plays were written by somebody else .
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starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wePt stick of dynamite at the very end . it's stll worth a look .
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the film overcomes the regular minfeield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity .
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this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow fomedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal .
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de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically pump and visually fulsome , but never shotwy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli .
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it's not riginal enough .
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the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great perfrmances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . .
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qeven if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd .
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the case is a convincing one , and should give akyone with a conscience reason to pause .
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the fiml has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that plaec , that time and that sport .
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this is a happy gthrowback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of noe of its most predictable .
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hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japKnese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and udnying , traditional politesse .
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the dramaitc crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriuosly , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience .
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it's really yet another anemic and formulaic ltehal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowignness .
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charming and funny ( but ultmiately silly ) movie .
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it's a pedestrian , flat drayma that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame .
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another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transportetr is riddled with plot holes big enough for its tiular hero to drive his sDeek black bmw through .
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two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog skports intrigue , if the picture also ehares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity .
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a woman's piG directed with resonance by ilya chaiken .
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though the plot is predictable , the movie nevegr feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the deicate characters .
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sad nonsense , this . but not withut cheesy fun factor .
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even accepting this in the riJht frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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what it lacks in substance it makes up for in Bheart .
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a so-so , made-foR-tv something posing as a real movie .
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laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuws to the chase of the modern uirl's dilemma .
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directors brett morgen and nanette bustein have put together a bold biographical fantasia .
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aait for it to hit cable .
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skin of man gets a few cheap socks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it alos taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cpoe with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults .
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waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennIui of denuded urban living without giving in to it .
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. . . if you're just in the modo for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you miSht want to catch freaks as a matinee .
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as played by rDan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction .
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an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearinB about it .
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think of it as gidget , only with muscle and a lo more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch .
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elicits more groans from the audience than Ijar jar binks , scrappy do and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one .
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in adobh , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns .
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that old adage about women being unnowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar .
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charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannbe comic adams' atempts to get his shot at the big time .
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it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable osft center .
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uneasy mishmfash of styles and genres .
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as inept as bigscreen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
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the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible uman beinsg , not cariQatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation .
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ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it preswnts friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive .
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most of crush is a clever and captivating roxantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness .
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. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gywnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually eogage it .
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deepa mehtT provides an accessible inroduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world .
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this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is insktructive .
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armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and leyv , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake prou .
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an engrossing and grim portrait of hookes : what they think of themselves and their clients .
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bartleRtt's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heatt is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made .
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