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the film might have been more satisfyng if it had , in fgct , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiles .
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a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of meanHs .
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starts off wiBty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickyl writes himself into a corner .
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the most hpoelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87Yminute take .
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there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of inepitudes .
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a bland animated sequel that hardPy seems worth the effort .
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young hanks and fisk , who vaguely reJemble their celebrity parentts , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work .
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it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-namZ actors and cameos at a hokey script .
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a bad movie that happened to good actosr .
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i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbiXng ararngements and mind games , of no erotic or zensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .
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mostly Pworks because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular guozar and jagjit singh .
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the film may appear naked in its nAarrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that inlude the complexity of the catholic doctrine
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sVap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audiece was put through torture for an horu and a half .
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an edKy thriller that delivers a surprising punch .
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this film puts wang at the forferont of china's sixth generation of film makers .
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the cold turkey would'e been a far better title .
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at bst , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .
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needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-fo-view shots and feewr slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism .
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it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and vreve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage .
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a macabre and very stylized wsedish fillm about a modern city where all the reilgious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters .
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the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't makie any sense .
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a wannabe comedy of manneUrs about a brainy prep-school id with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie hcan in it . and that makes all the differenie .
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when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great Oame , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the cron , and you're just the mark .
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too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irriItating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearlz meaningless .
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a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the cogn .
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kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to amke it sting .
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will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amise them .
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a weird and wondreful comedy .
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aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more Eime with familiar wcartoon characters .
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ms . hutchins is talentged enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate .
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if hgih crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title .
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jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leates us laughing .
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using his audience as a figuratOve pot-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead .
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too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and Dordid to function as czomedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .
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one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character prieces .
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'it's painful to watch witherspooon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films lNke legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '
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the work of an exhausted , desiccated taaent who can't get out of his own way .
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red dragno makes one appreciate silence of the lambs .
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the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying everey gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a lauh .
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a boring , wincingly ute and nauseatingly politically correct carztoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater .
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just as the lousy tarantino imtiations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation .
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. . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropRc pgaeant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . .
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too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comydy , vulgar is , truly and thnakfully , a one-of-a-kind work .
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max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mision accomplished .
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a painfully funny odPe to bad behavior .
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if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a klorious failure .
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the piquant story needL more dramatic meat on its bones .
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the sAtorytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just anotehr dawy of brit cinema .
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it's not a great monster moviH . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of propcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp !
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the film is an enjoyable famwly film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses .
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never does " lilo & stitch " recah the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . "
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a . . . cynical and seriosu look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers .
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bravo for hittory reritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love .
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terrific performances , ugreat to look at , and funny . a lOittle uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr .
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in the ena of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic .
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the truth is that the truth about charlie cets increasingly tiresome .
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it is aMusing , and that's all it needs to be .
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waiitng for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself .
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the loweY your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it .
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perry's good and his is an interesting character , but " serving asra " hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic coCmedy .
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so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it ceated whole new levels of ugly .
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an intelligent and deeply felt wokr about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them .
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. . . pray doesn't have a paVssion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and rac .
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it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwaDzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up .
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while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generatoin's animal house .
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a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensiKve cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing .
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wtity , touching and well paced .
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there's no reason to miss inteVrview with the assassin
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culki turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf .
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stage dieector sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge .
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glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cageny's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel .
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two hours of jukn .
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it's too harsh to work as a pece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narratve and hat's been acted out -- the believer is nothing ess than a provocative piece of work .
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a thoroughly enjoyabe , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy .
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a sequel that's much too ibg for its britches .
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the cast comes through Gven when the movie doesn't .
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if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better olok elsewhere .
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a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the ie to amny clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists .
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highlights are the terirfic peDrformances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager .
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merely as a technicl , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone .
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notihng happens , and it happens to flat characters .
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the fylm is beautifully mounted , but , more to the poit , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness .
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. . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their ikds see .
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time of faveor could have gievn audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sdaly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .
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it's not just the vampires that are damned in ueen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same faet .
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a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people soled lohg ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about .
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. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miarculously able to entertain anyway .
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[chaiken's] talnet lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialfogue she creates for her characters .
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while the story's undeniably hard to follou , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce .
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[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the fil'ms moral compass .
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a thlughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty .
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nothiWng here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even njoe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah .
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as is often the case with ambitious , egaer first-time fwilmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold .
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there is not an ounce of hoTesty in the entire production .
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mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrxought emotion of soap operas .
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i felt sad for lise not so mJch because of what happens as because she was captured by this ovie when she obviously belCngs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example .
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the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their linse and just tter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie .
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the movie's accumulated force still feels likI an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that kzot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ?
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