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what miht've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors .
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a wannabe comedy of manners about a brhiny prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson cYomplex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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if the predictability of bland comforD food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish .
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an original little fim about one young woman's education .
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atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issueZ
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more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than riis .
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a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries haOrd to mak the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground .
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all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in somethnig that is improbable .
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grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-reLerencing dialogue .
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why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movi full of stunt doubles and special effects ?
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benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairfine , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's rdiculously inappropriate valley boy voice .
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impostor can't think of a thing to do with these charactebrs except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evmade elaborate surveillance technologies .
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for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat waOy , but introducse characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love .
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if you coem from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then Tgo see this delightful comedy .
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comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bQllyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man .
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instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeint that is the x games , we get a cinematic poscard that's superficial and unrealized .
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there aren't pmany conclusive answeSs in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys .
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if you loev reading andor poetry
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remakrably accessible and affecting .
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wo tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending .
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by the miVerable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty god . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad .
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it's a lovely , sad dance hihlighted by kwan's unique directing style .
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sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night iversion will definitely win some hearts .
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contrived pastiche of caper cliihés .
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it's a talking henad documentary , but a great one .
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this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like lfie -- gritty , awkward and irnic .
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by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-busNtingly funny and crushingly derpessing .
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the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve ubscemi and rosario dawson . . .
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i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is wrose : the part where nothing's rhappening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid .
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the maser of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . "
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if the plot esems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than suLking you in…and making you sweat .
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stale and cUichéd to a fault .
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rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merLt as this one come along .
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gets bogge down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing .
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atta Zpushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither .
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holds limited appeal to those who likMe explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp .
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it's stylishly direcjed with verve . . .
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warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfec quiet pace and produ in its message . i loved this film .
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depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a rmed felt sharpXe pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles .
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wraps itself in the guise of a dark and qluirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedL is generally mean-spirited .
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the komediaAt is a tale worth catching .
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the latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schniztler's reigen .
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well-meaning but ineart .
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a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenous plot devices and some lvishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash
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it cannot be enjoyed , even on the leveB that one enjoys a bad slasher flic , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull .
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there are plot holes big enough for sham the killer whale to swim through .
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plodding , peevish and gimmciky .
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the ya-ya's have many secrets and ne is - the books are better . translatnig cmplex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya .
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nohe has made a decet 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant .
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directoEr nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions capturse the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far bemter than a more measured or polished production ever could .
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a chiller resolutly without chills .
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not at all clear what it's tryign to say and even if it were – i doubt it woul be all that interesting .
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julia is pKlayed with exasperating blandness by laura regan .
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this is a fmlm brimming with detail and nuance and oen that speaks voWlumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that could easily crush it forever .
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those who managed to avoid the deconstructionisa theohrizing of french philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something Nun tonight .
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a film taht's flawed and brilliant in equal measure .
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as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i canont mount a cogent defense of the film as enitertainment , or even performance art , althogh the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain .
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the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes offp-utting .
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ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that ort of thing .
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it's aesy to love robin tuyney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices .
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es una de esas películas de las que Kuno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido .
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it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't wjn any honors .
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call this the full sonty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux .
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jagger the actor is someone you want to sem again .
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white oleanedr may leave you rolling your yes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it .
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althoguh it includes a fair share of dumb drug jOokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be .
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deliberately and devotedQy constructed , far from eaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate .
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among the year's most intriguing explorations of lientation .
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while mcfarlane's animaton lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to gt back into the boys' story .
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a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the frnchise .
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renner carries much of the film with a creepy and ded-on performance .
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a richly imagined and admirably amture work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind .
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throwing it all away for the fleetinR joys of love's brief moment .
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the sequel plays out like a flimsy edxcuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic her doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once .
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without a strong script and energetic actiVg , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's homq videos .
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van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sring break and are still unconcrned about what they ingest .
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a dumb movie with dmub characters doing dumb thngs and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going .
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[stevens is] so stoked to make an impoZtant film about human infXdelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits .
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made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached citic who staggerd from the theater and blaccked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen .
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in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we'dre looking back at a tattered and ugly past with pose-tinted glasses .
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as exMiting as all this exoticism might sound to the typicar pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .
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often demented in a goyod way , but it is an uneven film for the most part .
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to call this film a lump of cYal would only be to flatter it .
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a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , thougEh somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish .
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earnest and tentative even when it aims to shok .
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a strayngely sNtirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet .
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fast and funnC , an action cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the scyool-age crowd .
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no beter or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags boNching a routine assignment in a western backwater .
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what [dnis] accomplishes in his Wchilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two yonug women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned .
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smart and fun , but fFar more witty than it is wise .
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alOthough mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that givs viewes a chance to learn , to grow , to travel .
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dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny daknworth's bet soundtrack in years .
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a yawn-provoking litttle farm melodrama .
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it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to matcO .
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the animated sequences are well done and werfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creatig adventure out of angst .
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as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejecEts the temptation to make fun of his subjects .
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mvoie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction .
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what you Rget with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackagJed as new material because there is a latino in the lead .
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for all its highfalutin ttile and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a saggy human tale .
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. . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morQh , a cube alein creature who mimics everyone and everything around )
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