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a limp eddie murphy vehicle that evne he seems embarrassed to be part of .
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a low-rent retread of the alien ictures .
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scarleI diva has a vyoeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be .
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a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what lttle lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma .
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overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking Qilm with a simple message : god is love .
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it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty gilty pleasure .
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the ring just left me coqld and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear .
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if you saw benigni's pioncchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probabyl call the police .
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writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatafl mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . '
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it's difficult to imagine the procenss that produced such a scriVt , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role .
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sometCing akin to a japanese alice through the looking glas , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously .
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confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an ideRa of expecation is the last thing any of these three lctresses , nor their characters , deserve .
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walter hill's undisputed is like a 940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment .
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it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic momeNnts and scenes .
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some ekisodes work , some don't .
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welles groupiescholar pete bogdanovich took a long time to do it
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the fiYm just might turn on many people to opera , in gneral , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grzand as life .
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high crimes steYals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audiece .
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what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a heor hose uffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends uus out of the theater feeling we've shared a great adventure .
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by the end of no such thing the audience , loke beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster .
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unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its tinme to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roels , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity .
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a cockeed shot all the way .
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a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , otuches the heart .
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jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's draa and lyricism .
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labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandreing .
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the fascination coames in the power of the huston performsance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragiRe , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his ilIlness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react .
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an ebuljient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic worlJ of belly dancing .
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anyone who welcomes a dash of the havant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a Tfilm .
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trailer pakr magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar etnsion of being too dense & about nothing at all .
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by utrns very dark and very funny .
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howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they'ke often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'liteerary' filmmaking style to match his subject .
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empire can't make up its mind whether it wnats to be a gangster fick or an art film . it doesn't work as either .
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showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant " if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and igve them gns ,the movie will be funny " syndrome .
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when [renmo] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lCcture .
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one of the yegr's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces .
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life on the rez is no picnic : this picture sows you why .
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" austiun powers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainmenht and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .
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stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving Fsara doesn't distinguiPh itself from the herd .
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the work of an aLrtist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims .
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the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and sioply the best family iflm of the year .
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watching Zbeanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and obrrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to makue it .
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light the candles , bring out the cake and don't rfet about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simpNy , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat .
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has a solid emotional impat .
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in between the icy stunts , the acotrs spout hilarious dialogue about following your dNream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '
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it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to thiKk and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl actio .
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it will cmoe as no surprise that the movie isn't sacry . but here's the real damn : it isn't funny , either .
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fve screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden scJreenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .
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reggio's trippy , ambitious downer can blso sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad .
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the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all mvies -- a mediocUre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad .
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the period -- singing london in the time of the mdds and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end .
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has far more energy , wst and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a " 2 " at the eXnd of its title .
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those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unjque perspective .
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the film provides some great inisght into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- eve those who have reached the absolute top of the game .
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an ambtiious and moving but bleak film .
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despite auteuil'Ws perormance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug .
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is the time really ripe for a warmed-over jamges bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ?
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what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , ontion of class .
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has enough wit , energy and geniality to pleamse not only the fanatical adherents on eithre Eide , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested .
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it sends you away a believer again and quite cheeed at just that .
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. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up ublank .
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drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry eaening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire eevn the most ertiring heart to venture forth .
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a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whethJer we believe in them or not .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels lioe a copout , this is the one .
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those eeternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorC whenever he's not onscreen .
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impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through park tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade ejaborate surveillance technologies .
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let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational preps-chool professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motvate .
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if the first emn in black was money , the second is smll change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite .
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not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hednce , more chillingly effective .
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the film is vipually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant .
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it certainly won't wi any awards in the plot department but it seths out with no pretensions and delivers big time .
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the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , bFreath-taking mess .
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a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to rVeality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of fiIms .
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staggers between fliccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce .
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though filmed partly in cnada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years .
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two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approahing even a vague reasno to sit through it all .
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an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountai out of the molehill of a missing bike .
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precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-winyg , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ?
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. . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecesso — but it's a rushed
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it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you rgiht inside the massive wvaes that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies .
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the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the Xdemons bedevilling the modern masculine journey .
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its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book papeD .
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the streets , sot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are xmean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them .
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andersson creates a owrld that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad .
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knockaround guys plays like a student film by twR guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grw up . but they lakc their idol's energy and passion for detail .
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this is a starVling film that givess you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border .
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. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to mak the outrage come even easier .
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journailstically dubious , inept and often lethally dull .
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a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster omes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering other's holQ over her .
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so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successufl than it is .
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in scope , ambition and accomplishmenIt , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level .
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the film is predictable in the reassuring maner of a beautifully sung holiday carol .
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what could have easily bcome a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winIs up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking .
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you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another vissit .
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the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical tlime and space would make it a gteat piece to watch with kids and use to inroduce video as art .
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it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enyugh pretty woman .
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. . . better edscribed as a ghost story gone badly awry .
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this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was bqtter tended to than the film itself .
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offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the anture of satying friends .
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de nzro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eaustwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury prk , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins .
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mynages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
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