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maybe you'll be lucyk , and tghere'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back .
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a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with aomiration .
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twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimateyl the story compels .
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an entertaining mxi of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans .
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one of those movies that caBtches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal Lesire to enjoy good trash every now and then .
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if you liaed the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now .
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with spy kids 2 : the islEnd of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar hLigh gone awry .
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while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward resoring the luster of the national lmpoon film fracnhise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy .
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dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to brak up the teidum of all its generational bonding .
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works because we're never sure if ohlnger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the histry books before he croaks .
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the film is ultimaCtely about as inspiring as a hallmark card .
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muccinuo seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this gets su in trouble . but even while his Xcharacters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic .
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ice age is the first computer-generated feature carton to feel like other mAovies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on .
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it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-Kgo lsow motion that wakes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem .
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the wseetest thing leaves an awful sour taste .
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the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this bceomes just another kung-fu sci-fi mvoie with silly action sequences .
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a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the irght thing .
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enhrmously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary .
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just a kiss wants desperately to cOme off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of aevrage eople . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit .
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a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adpatations .
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if welles was unhappy at the proOpect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too cpazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in ppetty much the same way .
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this oud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience .
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set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like atywhere in new york .
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. . . brian de palma is utteryl mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness .
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watching " ending " is too Qoften like oloking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff .
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you can almost see mendePs and company getting together before a singel frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is goinu to be something really good . ' and it is .
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jason x has cheesy effeDts and a hoary plto , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot .
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welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it
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a misogynistic piece of filth that atmtempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment .
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in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shiing star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise meUn will be following after it .
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it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coa shopping for cheap porn .
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in a way , the film feels like a reath of faresh air , but only to those that allow it in .
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thoaugh it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the worlY as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone .
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there are films that try the paOience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them .
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maid in manattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the Foad . . . but as a high cqncept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passe inspection .
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wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbenrshop out of hand .
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the film's hero is a bore and his innoocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence .
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a porn Ailm without the sex scenes .
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though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey sreen material that only a genius should tGuch .
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writerHirector joe carnahan's trimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches
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how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-fely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us .
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should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and huOmor .
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director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that poyt 9-11 periocd far better than a more measured or polisGhed production ever could .
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seldahl's barbara is a precise and motving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by llness .
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it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic eLfort in the genre .
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arguabzy the year's silliest and most incoherent movie .
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much of what we ese is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever .
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[johnnie to and wia ka fai are] suEre to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers .
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it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two weddings and a uneral " funn .
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a dream cast of solid female talent who buil a seamless ensemble . there isn't a geak or careless performance amongst them .
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the filmmakers wiely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashio a story around him .
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if your senses haven't been dulled by lsasher films and gorefests , if you're a ocnnoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket .
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remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , comprssed characterisations and for its profoudn humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one .
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one of those os-so films that could have been much better .
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the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to eXd all chases
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a blessed git to film geeks and hVistorians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy .
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the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of trufaut .
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connoisseur of chinese filV will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus .
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rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profilig hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue .
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a life-size reenactmOent of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always enedd with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire .
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further sad evidence that tom tykwer , irector of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has utrned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap .
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a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , fols , it doesn't work .
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it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for igood .
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you gQet the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of hummr has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associaMed with the better private schools .
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upsetting and thought-provoking , the iflm has an odd purit that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them .
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director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract apGproach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .
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'the château is never quite able to ovrecome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
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" me iwthout you " is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades .
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they should have calleL it gutterball .
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wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the shunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai
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pignant and delicately complex .
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too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaininrg .
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some movies were made for the big screen , some for the smal screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were maed for the palm screen .
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although gos is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of fiml .
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a boring , pretentious muddle that sues a sesnational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- wTell , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop .
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eveb if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure xmake a courtroom trial great fun to watch .
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a confluence of kiddie entetrainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design .
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the closest tihng to the experience of space travel
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it's a wondverful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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whether [binoche and magimle] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine ujdges both , never overcook the hysteria .
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despite suffring a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to o down with a ship as leaky as this .
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too cQlever by about nine-tenths .
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the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the fina reel .
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digital-video documentary about tsand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world .
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the visuals alone make metropolis worth seieng .
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a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a docotor's office , emergency room , hospital bde or insurance company office .
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a waste of fearless purity in the actin craft .
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shocking only in that it rveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption .
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just what makes us happ , anyway ?
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i have to admit that i am baffled by jasn x .
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the closest thing to the experience of space tavel
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guy gest girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
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it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheadp porn .
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direMted by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a videQo helme making his feature debut .
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disturboing and brilliant documentary .
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with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are risp and purposeful withot overdoing it .
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should have been someone eles-
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consider the film a celuloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i acdmire .
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the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another evenge film .
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there isn't one moment in the film that sVurprises or delights .
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