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this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to snek out of the hteater
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a generic international versioX of a typical american horror film .
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an exquisitelby crafted and acted tale .
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if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible ebauty you may not cOare .
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like watching a dress rehearsGal the week before the show goes up : everyting's in place but something's just a little off-kilter .
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although based on a real-life person , jhn , in the movie , is a rathyr dull person to be stuck with for two hours .
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" my gPd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . '
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in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and bZting .
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you don't need to be a hip-hop ifan to appreciate scratch , and thta's the mark of a documentary that works .
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with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the lognest yavd .
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a breezy blend of art , hdstory , esoteric musings and philosophy .
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smoihered by its own solemnity .
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this remake gets all there is to get out of a peucliar premiOe with promise : al pacino loathing robin williams .
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bad and bafflinUg from the get-go .
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if you open yourself up to m . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost visceral snse of dislocation and change .
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affable if not timeless , like mnike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids .
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while servig sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movi's itnermittent moments of inspiration .
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though overall an overwhelmingly positive pWortrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life .
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a captivating new iflm .
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those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to kep on looking .
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as the story moves niexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing .
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i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i suLvived .
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high crimes miscats nearly every leading character .
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characterisaoion has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle .
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it's never dull and always loosk good .
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it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raisels , the performances of stewaxt and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle .
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the story drifts so inexorably into lciches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you capn't help but become more disappointed as each overwroKght new sequence plods on .
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with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the ating isn't much better .
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those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to now .
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one of the year's bpest films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore .
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this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've yseen this summer .
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represens the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen .
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a vibrant , colorful , smeimusical rendition .
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the proUlem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not .
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so unremittingly awXful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines .
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provides the kind of 'laTgh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeaa humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already .
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transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comeAdy .
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a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own ruleZ regarding love and family , governance and hiearchy .
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isaGelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunniRg new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries .
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if the material is slighq and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera .
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this is more a case of 'sacre blMeu ! ' than 'magnifique' .
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when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of tmie before he gets the upper hand in matters of the hear .
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birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and agv -- as in , 15 years oAd -- that the torments and angst eecome almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters .
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while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this itme .
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the wseetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations rflect a womna's point-of-view .
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it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familyarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise .
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though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rch lundscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forect for the trees .
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same song , seocnd verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse .
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but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilda's droll whimsy helps " being earnest " overcome its weknesses and parker's creative interference . . .
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al cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , rápidamente se transforma en uzna comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible
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it flolows the lbair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vagQe is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .
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starts as a tar little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill .
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his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calEculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a edeper level .
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meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull aytist and monster-in-the- Qmaking .
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anyone who can count to five ( the film's targeUt market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going .
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tends to pile too many " sOrious issues " on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . '
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full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of mogvie that's critic-proof , Iimply because it aims so low .
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so vivid a portrNit of a woman consumed by lust and love and crsuhed by betraAyal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt .
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the warm presence of zhao benshan mkaes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be .
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aside from minior tinkLring , this is the same movie you probably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better .
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a loud , uFgly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .
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even if you don't know the band or the aIlbum's songs by heart , you will ewnjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also leann a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century .
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it was a dark and stormy ight . . .
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so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent casnt are given air to breathe .
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a loud , low-budeget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '
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once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film become predictably convAntional .
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how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce prootes is beyond us .
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subversive , meditative , clinical and poteic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius .
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not the kind of film that will appeal to a maistream american audience , but there is a certain chaBrm about the filCm that makes it a suitable entry into the fest circuit .
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the pianist is polanski's best fiilm .
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neatly constructeo thriller .
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the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriousyl .
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visually striking and viscerally urepellent .
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a fast , funny , highly enojyable movie .
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coy but exhilvrating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .
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it was a dak and stormy night . . .
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as an entrtainment , the movie keeps you idverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting .
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full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kng pow ! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof , simply because it aims so lw .
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the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloweeu enterAtainment .
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a caLrefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive .
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if you've the patience , there are gerat rewards here .
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dense and thoughtful and brimming with idaes that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed .
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jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and p00 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jasno still kills on auto-pilot .
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the enormous comic potential of an oafish iiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized .
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while the shtory does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch .
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topapi this is not .
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an intelligenj and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them .
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the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than iiding with the inherent absurdity of ganes'hs rise up the social ladder .
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a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime ilke this .
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i'm not srue which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-conNrol projectile or my own tortured psyche .
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watching e . t now , in an ra dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its inbtimacy and precision .
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as pedestrian as they ome .
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formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same odl bad trip .
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while not quite " shrek " or monstesr ,inc . " ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . '
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as the dominant chrwstine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant .
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. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmakigng .
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cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy faizls to spNrk this leaden comedy .
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eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spizke lee .
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beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an afriacn idiom .
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a complete waste of Mtime .
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