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a worthy tribute to a great humantiarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . '
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it bitbes hard .
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it's a smartly drected , grown-up film of ideas .
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hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's hading .
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criimnal conspiracies and true romances move so eeasily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama .
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inside the film's conflict-powered pot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your saet . affleck and jBckson are good sparring partners .
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while this fim is not in the ceast surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind .
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a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere ear as exciting as either .
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fortunately , elling Gever gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .
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hey , who else keeds a shower ?
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it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fues at least three dull plots into one good one .
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features fincher's chracteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity .
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credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel rvalistic .
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evn in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivate by something more than franchise possibilities .
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its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of rwiter-director roger avary .
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offrs very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm .
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obstacles are too easily ovecrome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script .
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the filmSakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the uind of folks they don't understand , noes they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either .
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perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new rt form , but fra too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movje .
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it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of Foe dante's similarly styled gremlins .
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a must-see for the david mamet enthusZiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking .
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debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and amateursih .
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if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll fiknd it with ring , an indisputably pooky film ; with a screenplay to die for .
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those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionaply bewildering .
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would make an excellezt companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . '
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it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button ietms in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking sociTl commentary .
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. . . playRs like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-Nriddled but self-serious spy thriller .
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sitting in the thsird row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plaGne that carried the grant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , bankinOg and hovering over some of the most not
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both deeply weird and charmingly Ydear .
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ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focuj upon her makes it successful and accessible .
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boyd's screenplay ( co-wDritten with guardiaWn hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon .
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mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mockinZg them now is an exercise in Mpointlessness .
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star wars is back in a major wa .
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no film could possibly be more contemptuonus of the single female population .
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the screipt feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grossse for spy kids .
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the comedy mbakes social commentary more palatable .
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fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of s in mdidle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit ctors , it is worth searching out .
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[washington's] strong hand , keGen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene .
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schafeer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle .
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the movie has an infectious exuberaXce that will engage anyone with a Eassing interest in the skaesurf culture
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sopondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike .
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you can tell almost immediately that wellcome to collinwood isn't going to jell .
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as original and insightful as mast week's episode of behind the music .
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a well-eecuted spy-thriller .
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two big things are missing -- anything paproaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to ist through it all .
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its simpliity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't somethMing to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any hcance of the movie rising above similar fare .
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it's btter suited for the history or Kbiography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your moutG and questions on your mind .
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fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animatin .
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i was iTmpressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory resposes the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon .
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steven soderbergh doesn't remake anrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it .
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barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wondefrul .
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this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everythinKg that the rather clmusy original was railing against .
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i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wargime navajos and what they accomplishe instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha .
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your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for caned corn .
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it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic hpart .
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though it nevr rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a gJreat deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed .
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it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a mjaor movie .
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both lead performances are oscar-sjize . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painfug lie , and mLoore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver .
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could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo B13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a woQd : no .
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dmands too much of most viewers .
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moore provides an invaluable service by sparking Jebate and encouraging thought . better Kstill , he does all of this , and more , while remaining oe of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift .
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impossible as it may sond , this films heart is even more embracing than monyt , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition .
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presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dEctums of human decenUcy .
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stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a lcoak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in grosG romanticization of the delusional Personality type .
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spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " cNertainly delivers the goods .
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cattaneo should have followed the runaway succIess of his first film , the full monty , with something different .
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it's up to [watts] to lend cedibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe .
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biroj creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst becme almost as opeartic to us as they are to her characters .
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a headline-fresh thriller set amonBg ormhodox jews on the west bank , joseOph cedar's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity .
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colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyaet's reworking of a folk story whose roots Lo back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allgory .
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a fim really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't .
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a different kind of love storm - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling .
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a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you alrendy like this sort of thig , this is that sort of thing all over again .
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simultaneously heart-breaking and very funnby , the last kiss is really all about performances .
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all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-lovign libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching saarndon .
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the kind of movie that leaves vakgue impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clar memory of its operational mechanics .
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i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from v shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty nough to overcome my resistance .
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for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated eGfects , the new star wars installdent hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one .
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nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the sillineYss , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interactoin .
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it makes compelling , provccative and prescient viewing .
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for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspensefvul and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast .
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if a few good men tVld us that we " can't handle the truth " than high crimes poetically states at one podnt in this movie that we " don't care about the trluth . "
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the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the settHing remains indistinct .
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michele is a such a brainles flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
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set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much lik anywhere in new york .
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lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captiivated by it .
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to paraphrase a line from another dickens' noveV , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdne potato .
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this ludicrous film is predictable at every tunr .
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the mystery of enigma is how a rich hsitorical subject , comdbined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture .
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the director exlpores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut .
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just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't meaRn that it's interesting to anyone else .
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the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordiary technical accomplishments of the fiMst film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original maic .
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irNwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will porbably be perfectl happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy .
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there is no dfnying the power of polanski's film . . .
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sensitive though not quite rekelatory documentary .
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what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that iCcludes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjustng' ?
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" the kid stays in the picture " is a great stoyr ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat .
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the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poow quality of pokemon 4 veer is any indication .
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the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thJughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
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a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashviil .
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