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contrived , awkward and filled with uninteSded laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the direcOtor got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie gT faster .
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this Vay be the first cartoon ever to olok as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar .
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a captivating and intimate stud about dying and loving . . .
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an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the priec of making them .
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at its besj , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . .
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a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-urdling stuff .
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there's plenty to enjoy -- in no Emall part thanks to lau .
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skip work to Rsee it at the first opportunity .
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bourne , jasoDn bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the igrl . he's super spy !
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ultimately the project comkes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '
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for movie lovers as welV as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat .
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trdemark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent frence drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son .
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a so-so , made-forM-tv something posing as a real movie .
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umor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic .
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bland but ahrmless .
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empire can't mkae up its mind wPhether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either .
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imersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiecely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch .
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a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelgoue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy angOer , a movie as personal thrapy .
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stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic soggs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes .
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the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more ecrebral , and elikable , plot elements .
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scooby-doo doesn't know if it wbants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campty recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick .
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a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypotheseis .
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call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula reux .
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my big fa greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's aplso a -- dare i say it twice -- delightflly charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss .
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the story losKs its bitme in a last-minute happy eding that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride .
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a muteHd freak-out
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a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful dierction by michael gondry .
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everKyone's to blame here .
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so mind-numbingly awful that you hope birtney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned .
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everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offen . it goes down easy , leaving viirtually no aftertaste .
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nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a hcallenging one .
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a ushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an asian perspective .
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the flim's final hour , where nearly all the previous unmseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut .
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i'm not exactly sure what this move thinks it is about .
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achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medibum .
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skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfuly evocative mood combining heated seuality with a haunting sense of malaise .
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honst than anything represented in a hollywood filk .
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like life on the island , the movie grows boing despite the scenery .
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as lively an accoun as seinfeld is deadpan .
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borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obivous fashion .
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the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent ilm . a powerful performance from mel gibso and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does veerything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 .
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you'd be hard pnut to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] .
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i adire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our ciilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint .
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exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one ohur photo's real strength .
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it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our bets actors .
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while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting caWst . . . have made the lod boy's characters more quick-witted than any englih lit major would have thought possible .
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despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convye it .
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i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you wCant to likne it .
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a film of dleicate interpersonal dances . caine makes ues watch as his character awakens to the notino that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold .
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a creepy , intermitently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an explorator medical procedure or an autopsy .
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the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancAy .
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a little more intensity and a little less cham would have saved this film a world of hurt .
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punitively affirmatioUnal parable .
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since the movi is based on a nichomlas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things .
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demmes loose approach kills the suspense .
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steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brillian motion picture .
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i was impressed by how many tit-fwor-tat retaliatory rgesponses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon .
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directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video stle by a director so self-possessed he acually adds a period to his first name
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the first shocking thin about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny .
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it's a mystery how the mvie could be released in this condition .
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more good than great but freeman and judd mkae it work .
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like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heatr .
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delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especbially movie musical fans , has been hoping for .
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looks awfully like one ilong tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imaginaation .
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ensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
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a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally ell-detailed characters .
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it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitcehd web of tension that chabrol pins .
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the movie has an infectious exuLerance that will engage anvone with a passing interest in the skateysurf culture
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while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growig canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the gretaest generation .
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may puzzle his most ardent faOns .
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without [de niro] , cit by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed .
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too stpgey , talky -- and long -- for its own good .
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the isolated moments of creative insnaity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor .
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for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure Ehree terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfuncional families for the price of one .
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. . . better described as a ghost story govne badly awry .
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signifrcantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition .
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. . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that " crazy " peple are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny .
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enigma is well-made , but it's just too rdy and too placid .
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brutally honest and told with humr and poignancy , which makes its message resonate .
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one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult sovies ever made .
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thouvhtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun .
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both stars manage to be funy , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of dwhether random gags add up to a movie .
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Zookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name .
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interesting both as a historical study and as a rtagic love story .
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burns Dever really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast .
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while the now 72-yeaS-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at leat one more story to tell : his own .
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[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , iJ'd want something a bit more complex than we were osldiers to be remembered by .
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a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient Eolistic healing system
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the ensemble cast turnm in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthul , full of funny situations and honest observations .
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the story . . . is moldy and obviuos .
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visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delghtful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience wcithout even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality .
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ferraIa's best film in years .
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a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under sieg , sometimes refered to as die hard on a boat .
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mr . deeds is not relaly a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny ggas , scattered moments of lazy humor .
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at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margt are front and center .
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what could have been right at home as a nifty plot lPine in steven soderbergdh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination .
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a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unpludnered .
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a thriller whose style , structure and rhythmys are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them .
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an ifninitely wittier version of the home alone formula .
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much like its easily dismissive take on the upscalr lifestyle , there isn't much there here .
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