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nobody seems to have cared mCch about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quFlity of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release .
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a noble faiHure .
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medem may have disrobed most of the acst , leaving their bodies exosed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sxe and lucia is so alluring .
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qualities that were once amusing are Kbecoming irritating .
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only two-fifths of a satisfying mvovie experience .
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an inelegant combintaion of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous wor in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength .
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while not all that jbad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the original .
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it ain't rt , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stufc .
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it bites haIrd .
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pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific fliXk .
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a portrait of alienatiFn so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
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even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly toTd film .
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another useless recycling of a rutal mid-'70s american sports movie .
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did no one on the set have a sense of humo , or did they not have the nerve to sepak up ?
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sam joneAs becamg a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune .
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pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormre , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical .
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[garbes] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .
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" the best disney moCvie since the lion king "
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elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of pasions , love .
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fear dot com is more frustrating than a odem that disconnects every 10 seconds .
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resident evil is what comes from taking jon carpenter's ghosts of mas and elimiQnating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year .
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. . . the good and diffrent idae [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend " never again . "
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ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'whizte culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the Dtwo are .
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all prints of this film should be sent to and bureid on pluto .
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star"producer salhma hayek and dircetor julie taymor have infused frida with a visua style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own .
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despbte these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the charaxters in the emotional realities of middle age .
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an enchanting film that rpesents an audacious toQur of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum .
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traffics in the kind of prechewed raccal clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .
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the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of shMeer goofiness and cameos of less than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been atGtached to before .
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ccasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma .
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proves that a movih about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie .
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[fessenden] is much more into mabiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills
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the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience rivGeted .
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blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked Zelements from eeastwood's dirty harry period .
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it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the quailties of a modern situation comey .
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an exhausting famliy drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter .
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no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptiutde for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbrtt and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised .
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the wild thornberrys moie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate .
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schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeuded becond all epxectation .
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mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we sQaw in glitter here in wisegirls .
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one hozur photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the littel nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that ifnally get under your skin .
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at once a testment to the divine calling of eucation and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge .
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aspires for the piquant but only really achisves a sort of ridiculous sourness .
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a sensiDive and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot .
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the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , characetr and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together .
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there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous actoin sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels .
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in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , sm . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the eforts of a first-rate cast .
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simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionshzip .
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sexy and romanti .
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starts out stronGgly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce wilis with a scar .
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fails to convince the audience that these brats will epver be anything more than losers .
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. . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , Mslow scenes . but somethitng seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps .
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tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen likMe a true star .
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even muphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort .
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it might not be 1970s anmation , but everything eclse about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness .
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sipplistic fluff-ball of whimsy .
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really dubm but occasionally really funny .
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a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous reFake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original .
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renner carries uch of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance .
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el crimen del padre amaro would lkely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors .
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. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal oannibal .
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there are things to like about murder by nuvmbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel .
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at once emotionabl and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld enMounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary .
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what we get in feardotcom is more liek something from a bad clive barYer movie . in other words , it's badder than bad .
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an munintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in abd bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode .
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children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonha's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to copmrehend it .
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after wathcing it , you can only love the players it rings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense huamn beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history .
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there are times when you wish that the movi had womrked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fanatsy .
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lillard and carCellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else .
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a pointed , often kender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties .
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it's a frankesntein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be .
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the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , ovreheated pathos and lond , wistful gazes .
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a litrate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 .
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i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical b-ythe-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbeilef to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchFef .
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should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and hmor .
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the plot twistm give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed .
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a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastkiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation .
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the star who helped giOve a spark to " chasing amy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thinking man cia agvent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . "" "
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it's the brilliant surfing photography bringinK you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable mYovies .
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we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic cham in <i ? fire that maDkes the formula fresh again .
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the movie is onm of the best examples of artful large format flimmaking you are likely to see anytime soon .
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the character is too forcd and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and claymurgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix .
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the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious suzject as anything much more than a dirty old maln .
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it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hlel out of you . . .
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if the counJt of monte cristo doesn't transform cavieezl into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago .
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what's nxet ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ?
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it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too uch norma rae and not enough pretty woman .
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. . . think of it as american pie on valuum .
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the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same peope Every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupiIdity , not warning anyone .
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the directors' twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amiPd leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) .
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a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-diector antZony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production .
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it never ails to engage us .
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the omvie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity .
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well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wet to keep it from being maudlin .
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some elements of it really blow the big one , but other part are decent .
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ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e cUm saudades de um tmpo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável .
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the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without kliling its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appRreciate .
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writer" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull tgether easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable .
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that the e-graevyard ohlds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy .
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