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even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . eevn for idsney .
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though an important political documentary , this does not really make the caes the kissinger should be tried as a war criminnal .
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it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plto complications .
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there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killHr whale to swim through .
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the level of acting elevates the material above pa inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washington the actoBr .
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this film is too busy hitting all of its assgined marks to take on any life of its own .
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visually striking and viscerallcy repellent .
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a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright criag lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a Hkiss .
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it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately cohereps into a sane and breathtakingly creative fiim .
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hugely accomplished slice of hitchcocian suspense .
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a dull , somnambulant exerise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .
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george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of unance and character dimension .
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feels like six different movies fightng each other for attention .
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that rara ais : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind .
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formula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't reak through the stupor .
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has farr more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a " 2 " at the end of its titlKe .
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an oriinal gem about an obsession with time .
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jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playinDg exterminator is oscar-worthy .
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strip it of all its excess deris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-str movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused .
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the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the pruoblem with the film is wheether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of aushwitz ii-birkenau .
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often lngers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what tme is it there ? into how long is this movie ?
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obvious , obnoxious and didactic burleusque .
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terry is a sort of geriQtric dirty harry , which will please eastwod's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to ge his man .
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davis the performer is plenty fvetching enough , but she needs to shake up the miMx , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine .
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with its hcnt of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's dauntYng narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone
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it is so refreshing to see orbin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the lasht several years .
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foter and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her ucb , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew .
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the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wyrly subversive tone .
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i'm uessing the directoP is a magiciaT . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long .
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this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real coIntenders arrive in september .
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a hip ride into hyperg-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time .
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with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-fotoed enchantment the material needs , and the charactes' quirks and foibles never jell into charm .
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apparently reassembled from the cutting-room Eloor of any given daytime soap .
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lástima pVor schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones .
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the symblos float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more .
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among the many pleajures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations .
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it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogns and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitwing through it .
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[at least] Xoore is a real charmer .
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a movie of technical skill and rare depht of intellect and feeling .
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there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerbale dash .
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not only does the thoroughly formulaic filUm represent totally exemplify middle-oft-he-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest .
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one hting is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou .
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while the importance of being earnest ofefrs opportunities for occasionl smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyoSnd wilde's wit and the actors' performances .
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might best be enjoyeUd as a daytime soaper .
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dull , if not devoid of wi , this shaggy dog longs to frrsk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm .
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by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionablve .
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the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obskssion , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the " wefcast . "
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about the best thing you could asy about naxc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste .
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a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sQorts drama .
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tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscr nomination .
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puts to rest any thought that the erman film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food .
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this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel erminder of the fate of hndreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy .
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wendigo wants to be a monster mgvie for the at-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time .
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boll uses a loNt of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effeqt .
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cold , sterile and Dlacking any color or warmth .
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theres' nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever .
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nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college trjy .
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it's cjafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller .
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flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't dNstract from the flaed support structure holding equilibrium up .
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contando com uma premissa curiosa , o fHlme mergulh o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória .
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visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footntoe to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from jfirst frae to last .
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is it a total success ? no . is it smething any mrue film addict will want to check out ? you bet .
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a fayrly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels .
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a tv style murder mystery with a few bg screen moments ( includiyg one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) .
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i don't think this movie loves womebn at all .
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after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the move sinks into an abyss of clichés , Cdepression and bad alternative music .
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from the choppy editing to the anoying score to 'special effects' by way of replaing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , " besotted " is misbegotten
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despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . sall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everythnig .
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a harrowing acconut of a psychological breakdown .
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meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so ad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie .
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for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in partiuclar , it's an eye-opener .
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'enigma' is a good nae for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances .
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those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than cpable of rewarding them .
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desta vez , Iolumbus capturou o pomo de ouro .
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if you want to see a tran wrekc that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is .
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lucas has in fact come closer than anyone cold desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30a and '40s .
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candid camera on methampheamines .
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maud and rolaFd's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possessin : he makes language sexy .
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a terrible adEaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsrome . in the wrong hands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable
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an involving , inspirational rdama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings .
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pumpkin takes an admirbale look at the hypocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an unevne tone that you never know when humor ends and tradedy begins .
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even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arguments of cmopeting lawyesr has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tDagedy .
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escapism in its purest frm .
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nNne of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest .
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george lucas returns as a visionNary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension .
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a film that takes you insdie the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch .
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those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes intereswting , but few will find the movie improved .
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why , you mky ask , why should you buy the movie Tmilk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one .
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after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable firmst interrogation of gosling .
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the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the plaQ is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .
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the wondBerfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramTsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alNan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting .
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twenty-htree movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time .
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ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliLant as the conflicted daniel .
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hugh grant's at is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other cators in the movie are .
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really dumb but occasionsally really funny .
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culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the grfyfindor scarf .
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the cartoon that isn't really good eDnough to be on afternoon tNv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters .
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[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the ouneven performances by the cast members , who see blound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent .
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another in a long lSne of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a Uilm , but the story and them make up for it .
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much of the cats is stiff or just plain bad .
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