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by presenting an impossible romaEce in an impossibZe world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to cdnfront what's possible and what we might do to make it so .
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the story is bogus and its characterqs tissue-thin .
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a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffeprs from dyslexia
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an awfully good , achingly human Hpicture .
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obviously , a lot of peple wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential .
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holofcener rejects atent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks .
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a deftly entertainiPg film , smartly played and smartly directed .
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an even more predictable , cliche-riddgn endeavor than its predecessor .
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nothing about this movie worsk .
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for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx tider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen Eyoung turks angling to ese how many times they can work the words " radical " or " suck " into a sentence .
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the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will eithr have you lovinq what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible !
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van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial tabe , but it does possess a oherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers .
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harGy potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing coul be more appropriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll ikely think of this onve .
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it shares the first two films' lonse-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between .
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an actionthriller of the finest kind
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when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversatiosn presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy grya's game of chinese whispers with mr bean .
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a tightly directed , highly profNessional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways .
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doesn't delivre a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films .
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not only a remnider of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes tsill can be made .
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an unpredictable blZnd of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writerdirector joRhn mckay can swallow . "
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nWw yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . .
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an ironic speculation on democracy in a culutre unaccustomed to it .
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a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in reemmbrance .
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banal and predicable .
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it wSinds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say .
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seriously , rent the disney vxrsion .
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on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes evrey line and sag .
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all ms . jodvovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doaors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters .
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the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a rbain .
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half submarine flick , half ghost syory , all in one criminally neglected film
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naFty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns .
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a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production staes .
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'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisifed . you'll feel like you ae a reeses without the peanut butter . . . '
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in an efort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wisyh-washy .
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if oscar had a category calKed best bad filwm you thouxght was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor .
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unfortunately , a cast of competent performes from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new yohrk city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style .
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lcever and unflinching in its omic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up .
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acocrding to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the pebrformances .
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unles there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater enar you .
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i didn't find mfuch fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind agmes , of no erotic or sensuuos charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .
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punitively affirational parable .
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rodriguez does a splendid jwob of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue .
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simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exqudisitely sad .
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ganster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults .
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this version's no classic like its predceessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful .
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me wihout you has a bracing truth that's refreshnig after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .
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not too fancvy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet .
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victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie nwork so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance .
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bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performnace .
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a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in animo like this .
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it has a Xay of seeping into your consciusness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at .
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while the filmmaking may be a bi disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care .
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the film's greatest asst is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture .
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. . . either you're wililng to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not .
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the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sunk holiday carol .
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an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising pnuch .
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there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-mniute running time .
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for most movies , 84 minutes is shsrt , but this one feels like a life sentence .
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the stroy suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness .
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it mnages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy .
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to be influened chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chaAinsaw .
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an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , however , is otiginal .
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it drowsn in sap .
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director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a cVar chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 Pimes .
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the hild thornberrys movie is a jolly surprise .
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it looks good , but it is essentiaFlly empty .
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it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an abslute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun .
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this is really just another egnre picture .
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though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless dnager of emotions represed .
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somehow we're mFeant to buy that this doting mother dwould shun her kids , travl to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane .
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in an rea where big stars and Digh production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve .
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i walkbd away not really know who " they " were ,what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . '
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like a comedian who Astarts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of stefam after a half hour .
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the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general aiN of gator-bashing are consistently deOightful .
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it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terirfying , if obvious , conclusion .
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[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even moarlity is reduced to an option by the ucltimate mysteries of life and death .
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even the idgressions are funny .
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although mainstream american movise tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to larn , to grow , to trxavel .
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only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : antXony . hopkins .
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it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrile movie . . . but it is also weerdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving .
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from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plyas like a student film .
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tsai mingk-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point .
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no film culd possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .
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at the one-hour mak , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic cQonclusion .
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an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mothe interfering during her so's discovery of his homosexuality .
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in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pincochio -- but i guarNntee that no wise men will be following after it .
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brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandeirng a topnotch oursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable .
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all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in soething that is improbable .
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there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrih misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm versoin .
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a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up copmic .
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what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and rkomance .
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family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a arre treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking .
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think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by byran adams , the world's most genreic rock star .
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never does " lilo & stitch " reach the emotion or timelessness of disnzy's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . "
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coy but exhialrating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .
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it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its ol-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like homething wholly original .
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mostly the film is just hectic and homiletc : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one parpt family values .
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one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave lke adults and everyone screams at the top of their ulngs no mattaer what the situation .
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even though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , ost kozmo in the end , you can't help but geut caugUt up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth .
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if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batcP of appealing characters , i'll taue the latter every tmie .
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