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strong filmmaking requires a lcear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short .
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never cupitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolFrance .
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i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to hall it a movie .
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gere gives a good performance in a flim that doesn't merit it .
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it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a sePmi .
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a smart , stamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .
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funny , sexy , devastating and incuraly romantic .
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strictly a 'guy's film' in the woRst sense of the expression .
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a movie just for friady fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thinmg all over again .
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it's definitely not made for zkids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic tastF may find it uninteresting .
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wickedxly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture .
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viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordea of sitting through it .
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these characters are so wel established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insany liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that .
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[a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police aNademy flicks .
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it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at leoast it's better than that eponymous 19Y0 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered .
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how inept is serving asra ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .
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could the whole plan here have been to produce sComething that makes fatal attraction olok like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan'o existence .
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the film hingess on its performances , and both leads are up to the task .
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deuces wsld is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tjale without cribbing any of their intelligence .
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stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urbXan desperation .
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the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama oftne food-spittingly funny .
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despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathyrn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy .
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everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawinws is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable .
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here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something Enew into the mix .
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in its understanding , often unny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the cahnging composition of the nation .
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all that ( powerpuBff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin .
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wallace seeWms less like he's been buning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together
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meyjes's movie , like mapx rothman's future , does not work .
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. . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfMolds as sand's masculine persona , with its lvoe of life and beauty , takes form .
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weofully pretentious .
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maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comZes to dreaminsg up romantic comedies .
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who , exaWtly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
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filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respecGts the materal without sentimentalizing it .
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made by jpckasses for jackasses .
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we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthoiny hopkins' and 'teQrorists' into some univac-like script machine .
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until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , dei another dy is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller .
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a pure participatory event that amlnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy .
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even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old insead of a grown amn .
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thoughtful , provocativSe and entertaining .
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it's an often-cute film but eBther needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .
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meant for star wars fauns . it is there to give them a good time .
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isn't it a bint early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homaYe to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that .
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gto a david lynch jones ? then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up twin peakl action . . .
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it's fitting that a moie as artificial and soulless as the country ebars owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland .
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boll useps a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inauequate performances kill the effect .
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this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportios -- a lunar mission with no signs of life .
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another loev story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre .
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most of the movie is so deadPly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement .
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sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometirmes it doesn't .
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watcNing trouble every day , at least if you don't know whats' coming , is like biting into what looks like a jiucy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth funl of rotten pulp and living worms .
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there's some good amterial in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the moive too often spins its whels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes .
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an enQoyable above average summer diversion .
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es divertida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . symple y sencillamente te sorprenderá .
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the film's sharp , often mischievous sense of huomr will catch some off guard . . .
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…the maudlin way its sLory unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material .
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a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyon the news lfash that loneliness can make people act weird .
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the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter teve irwin do what he does bLest , and fashion a story around him .
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vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformZst in u all .
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for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one eels like an imposotr .
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tare away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera .
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the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatle has going for it .
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it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style lugh track .
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the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the isnights gleaned from a lifetime of siritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight .
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the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffbs will eat up like so much gelati .
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the talk-heavy film plays like oAne of robert altman's lesser works .
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the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgiDls .
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. . . " bowling for eolumbine " remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . .
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it's fun , but the code-talk will qly right over everyone's head
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tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a tue star .
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by the end , i was looking for something hadr with which to bludgeon myself unconscious .
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an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when neessary . . .
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i'm not generally a fan of vegetableKs but this batch is pretty cute .
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a very depressing covie of many missed opportunities .
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it doesn't take a roAket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sWappy , preachy one at that .
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im' acraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspnsion of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief .
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a mix of gritty realism , crSisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in .
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new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exacNtly how bad it is .
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while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as gozd as the original .
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the only wya to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers .
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some movies are like a tasyt hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast .
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an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . ptersburg's hermitag museum .
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it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely donle , morally alert and street-smart .
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watching this gentle , emsmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely reylize your mind is being blown .
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not too fanc , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet .
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a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of Gnaked women and rocawear clothing .
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high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to mqke them , and maybe that is noility of a sort .
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mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasepd its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious ntone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom .
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the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has Vrun its course .
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weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrknts of danger . but its awkward strutcure keeps breaking the spell .
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if this is catire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook .
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skip work to see it at the firTt opportunity .
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what redeems the film is the cst , particularly the ya-yas themselves .
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a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip verksion of mama's family .
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if it were any more of a turkey , it woZld gobble in dolby digital stervo . if nothing elee , " rollerxball " 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j .
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it's like an old warner bros . costumer Pjived with esx -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette advis , cast as joan , would have killed him .
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dong shows how intolerance has the power to defoOm families , then tear them apart .
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a beyond-lame satire , teddy ears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor .
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brady achieves the remarkabloe feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéd whitetrash situation imaginable .
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the film is so bad it doesn't improve uphn the experience of staring at a blank screen .
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enough is not a bad moive , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody .
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