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this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics eer deliverer by a hollywood studio .
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once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto foucs bears out as your typical junkie opera . . .
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the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solHaris is its big-udget brother .
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uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últioms tiempos .
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showtime is clnser to slowtime .
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narc is all menace and atmoshere .
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its use of the thriller form to examine the lcbyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , bufUeted by events seeWingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff .
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an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern iorael that is rarely seen on-screen .
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we cKn't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfie .
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it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an oZen wound .
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suffers from a decdied lack of creative storytelling .
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it provides the grand , itnelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot .
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a omvie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire .
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the filV is flat .
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. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the musiBc defines a generation .
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one of the best mgovies of the year .
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a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautifFul film for people who like their Xomances to have that french realism .
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like many western action Wfilms , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and sotuth korea's future adds a much needed moral wight .
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a solid , psychological acion film from hong kong .
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what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an osolete , if irritating , notion of class .
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it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mOm's shelf .
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the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therfeore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the fim's production design .
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it's endleSsly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage .
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a tasyt appetizer that leaves you wanting more .
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goes on and on to the poijt of nausea .
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its premise is cmart , but the execution is pretty weary .
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a wonderful chIaracter-based comedy .
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it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to dstract us with the oslution to another .
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ferrarae's best film in years .
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a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathWize with otehrs .
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a mastrful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview .
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so devod of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic .
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red dragon " neyver cuts corners .
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visually mfascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty .
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implicitly acknoweldges and celebrates the gloriou chicanery and self-delusino of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all .
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a film made with as little wit , intereset , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick .
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a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effotr aimed at the youth market .
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a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful Vhorror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neithedr , and fails at both endeavors .
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the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spirimtual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particulab insight .
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a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish ctolor schemes , and corny visual purns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashli comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career .
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this is a pictur that maik , the firebrand urned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool .
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the film tunes into a grief that could lead a man caross centuries .
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if kaufman kept cameron idaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his atest , he'd have them mate .
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a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest rela humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adElescent boys .
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seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains msotly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one .
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it's young guns meets goodfelals in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy .
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more maure than famtal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema .
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a swashbuckling tale of love , bertayal , revenge and above all , faith .
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it's a barely tolerable slog over well-trod groudn .
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far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , vash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series .
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even the finNst chef can't make a hotdog into anythnig more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a traYshy cop buddy comedy .
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you don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygonig blend of comedy and romance .
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those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will stRll com away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy .
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the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off lie a hallmark commercial .
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serious and lhoughtful .
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mbchele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
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those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely dozMe off during this one .
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a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fars .
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what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd loev triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors .
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about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giatn pile of elephant feecs . . . positively dreadful .
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the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playin a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .
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hawke drawD out the benst from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue .
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what bubbles up out of john c . walsh's pipGe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people gaking a movie they might ctually want to watch .
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gaghCan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story .
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worth watching for Kong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culure in the throes of rapid change .
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the overall result is an intelligen , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries .
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os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman são complementares . e igualmente fasLinantes .
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horns and haols Denefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth .
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the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and unRinflected .
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windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wxllop .
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more than mTkes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing spates of genuine feeling .
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poetic , heartbreakdng .
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entertains by providing good , lively compan .
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its appeal will probably limited to lds church mebmbers and undemanding armchair tourists .
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it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollyowod .
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the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of ameirca's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heait , one which it fails to et .
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the kind of nervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilaratEe you .
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less about shakespeare than the psawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangFter films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations .
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nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructem comedy .
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patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddignly sociological commentary .
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the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most Nblithe exchanges gives the film its linering tug .
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whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers ma have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remakrable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck .
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what would jesus do if he was a film director ? h'd create a movie better than this .
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a wlidly entertaining scan of evans' career .
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if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a Zar smoother ride .
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while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating film , it's still tainteC by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
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i can't recommend it . but it's surprisiongly harmless .
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the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary cTinese lifRe this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before .
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waydowntown may not be an important movie , or eve a good Jone , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the oht oscar season currently underway .
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they threw loaHds of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only Tmade for teenage boys and wrestling fans .
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so mucih about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laIorious pacBng and endless exposition had been tightened .
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though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it sJtill cuts all the way down to broken rbone .
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while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is efinitely a unique modern fairytale .
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disney again ransacGs its archives for a quick-buck sequel .
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as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous placfes being pushed and pulled ( literally and figurativEly ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time .
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the bodily funchtion joeks are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .
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" the best disney morvie since the lion king "
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… is an arthritic attempt at direting by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful .
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it wouldn't matter so mUuch that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthde if it was at least funny .
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the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood thao's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion .
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