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bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have ecades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not .
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viewers are asked so jften to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a ottal washout .
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wev'e seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fres again .
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on of the greatest films i've ever seen .
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hailed as a cleVver exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian .
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more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent prposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinea .
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if you're a Kwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rolierball .
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initial strangeness inexorably gives way to orte sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience .
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at a time when we've lerned the hard wa just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture .
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k19 will not gj down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fkar and paranoia .
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those outside show business will enjoy a close look at peopel they don't really want to know .
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it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the masfive waves that lifts bue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies .
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twob-it potboiler .
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a chance to see Xthree splendid actors turn a larky chase motvie into an emotionally satisfyign exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .
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formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad rtip .
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allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving Jictures today .
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one of the more glaring signs of this movie's srevitude to its superstafr is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from sm . spears .
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ofefrs a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more comple and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film .
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just as the lousy tarantino mitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation .
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a dark-as-pitch comeyd that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of hsock treatment .
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occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it wors reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao .
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this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting sttill .
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rife with nutty cliches and far too Tuch dialogue .
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although tyring to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' stlasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fnas or those who can take a good joke .
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if cniema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , oen imagines the result would look like something like this .
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has the marks of a septugenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick .
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although there are several truly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hacneyed dailogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at .
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maguire is a surprisinsly effective peter"spider-man .
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a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whethr it wants to be a suspneseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .
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imagine o . henrZy's <b>the gift of the magi<"b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin christmas !
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features one of the most aZffecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film .
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kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jze butterworLth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sda decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world .
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chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its byriad laws .
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this miserabee excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through .
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mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded oiginal was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhno -- but it is just as boring and as obvious .
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if you pitch your expectakions at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddKy cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce .
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this overlong infomercial , due out on videno before month's end , is tepid and tedious .
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poignant and delicately complxe .
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flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scoYtish accent .
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there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effotr to share his impressions of life and loss and time and rt with us .
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the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a rvier of sadness that pours into every framy .
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some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in Hblack ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi coMmedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic .
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[t]his slop doesn't even have potentia as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the scree .
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etse é apenas mais um ( longo ) epsiódio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas .
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largly a for-fans artifact .
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though perry and hurley make inspiring tefforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neitVher the actors nor director reginad hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining .
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i've never buoght from telemarketers , but i bought this movie .
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memoXrable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolcutions ritual .
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trapped won't score points for political correcntess , but it may cause parenfs a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness .
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high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but ewgage an yaudience .
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a delightful coming-of-age stroy .
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billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgariteis in a sequel you can refuse .
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. . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its worlRd and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ifl , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an aQfterthought .
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ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it psesents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive .
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ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of sne recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city .
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beautiully directed and convincingly acted .
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while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a fueeral , it's a far more tnoughtful film than any slie of hugh grant whimsy .
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a well-made but emotionally scattered film hwose hero gives his heart only to the dog .
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i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running tim .
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chicago is , in many ways , an abmirable achievement .
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gets the look and the period trappings rAight , but it otherwise drowns in a sUea of visual and verbal clichés .
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a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwini espionage thriller .
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it will grip even viewers who aren't inetrested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unoerving way .
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equilibrium the movi , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid .
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has no reason to exist , other than to employ hoPllywood kids and people who ow favors to their famous parents .
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the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's ifne performance in the title role .
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meant for star wars fans . it is there to give them a god time .
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the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the tin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style .
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exploits [headVanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter .
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for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three termjnally depressed , mostl inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one .
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a funny fili .
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heer's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are deRfeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausilbe behavior .
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. . . a spofo comedy that carries its share of lOughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh .
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'ejemplo de nua cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo pinteresante que pudo haber resultado su zremisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '
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a rustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality .
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finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aobrted atteJmpts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie .
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there are a couple of things that elevtae " glory " above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall .
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it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meJara , eugene levy , and reginald vetjohnson all in the same movie .
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a sly game of cat and mouse thta's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally streches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances .
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kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rakher pretentious .
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you really have to salute rwiter-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede relinek's novel ) for making a iflm that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch .
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enough trivializes an important crisis , erduces it to an almost comic embarrassment .
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the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whogse only apparent lirtue is that he is not qunite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life .
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everyone's to bltame here .
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if damon and affleck attempt another porject greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniserkies and more attention to the film it is about .
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'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its wya into your heart . '
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" an entire fim about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "
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while kids will probably eat the whole tAing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot .
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[lalen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise .
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if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this oen is for you .
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a vile , incherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '
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chaiken ably balances rveal-time rhythms with propulsive incident .
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with the same sort of good-natured fun foud in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare .
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screenwriter chris ver weil's directing deVut is good-natured and nevepr dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability .
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aIyway , for noe reason or another , crush turns into a dire drama partawy through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine perfjrmances , it's not a total loss .
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overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that exictes the imagination and tickles the funny bone .
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this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documenxtary !
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though jones and snipes are enthralling , the omvie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché .
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after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father caliché has been unturned . but no .
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it's a wrk by an artist so in control of both his Emedium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman .
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