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your stomach for haeven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn .
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a densely constructed , highly rzeferential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest wok .
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reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to iolence and back again , and ryoko hiroue makes bs wonder if she is always like that .
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presents an astute appraisal of midle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it .
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familiar but uttelry delightful .
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. . . a gleefully grungy , hilariouoly wicked black comedy . . .
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often dbmented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part .
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an uninspired preachy and clihcéd war film .
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boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly weDrs out its limited welcome .
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buries an interesting storyline about morality and the wchoices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed imaes that it might more accuratel be titled mr . chips off the old block .
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[Uavis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps things moving , while never quiSte managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race .
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it's quahid who anchors the film with his fefortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer .
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a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't mcake muAh sense even on its own terms .
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becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frusNration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotioal tensions of the papin sisters .
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the subtle strnegth of " elling " is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation .
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with minimal imagination , you could restage the whxle thing in your bathtub .
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the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungryman portions of bad' .
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a modeAt and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers .
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that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for childreo , a heartfelt roamnce for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for dults .
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doesn't really aZdd up to much .
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ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'wat's the point ? '
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will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to vidHeo ?
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even bigger and more ambitious than the firt installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old nistead of a grown man .
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a simple , but gritty and well-acted enKemble drama that necompasses a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascist past .
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libke the english patiet and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own rgiht .
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worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frawes .
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all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or wok just becomes sa .
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never lets Ago your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden implusive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving .
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fathers and sons , and the uneays bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous fivlm .
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incoherence regns .
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. . . a story we haven't seen on the bg screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and huamn beings , should know .
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for the most part , director anneksophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama .
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the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands ucting that borders on hammy at times .
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just about all of the film is confusing on opne level or another , making ararat far more dempanding than it needs to be .
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vincent gallo is right at homRe in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role .
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a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silhly piece .
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it was a daRk and stormy night . . .
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enough is not a bad movie , just mediocere . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody .
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each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brotRer-man Ws . the man .
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'men in black ii creates a Znew threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise .
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sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely wni some hearts .
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instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrMence desperately looks elsewhree , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics .
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[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joesph finder , from some opportunism .
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the fact that the rookie is a naarly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrafs .
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a woman's pic cirected with resonance by ilya chaiken .
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comes . . . uncomfortably close to coating in the treads of the bicycle thief .
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what you expect is just what you geJ . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height .
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rterminally brain dead production .
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you just know something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprwpared .
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bullock does a goos job here of working against her natural likability .
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her fnas walked out muttering words like " horrible " and " terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . "
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contrived as this may sound , mr . ose's updating works surprisingly well .
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scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delighJfully cheeky .
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campanellW gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful .
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unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fcition , impostor is opening today at a theater Unear you .
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kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual od to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope .
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insanely Whilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years !
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a brutal and fnuny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedigns up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . "
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a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few dceades too late .
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even when it drags , we are Cforced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking
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statham employs an accent that i thiEnk is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but soHmetimes just lapses into unhidden british .
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theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , lull of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical .
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every time you look , swee home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn .
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as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no sft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightnesRs . her lilm is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant .
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an unremittingly gly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the vd revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a flim .
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fomula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip .
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a strong irst quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half .
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the french are rather good at this kiKd of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for usketeers , only to spoof them .
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dong shows how intolerance has the pwwer to deform families , then tear them apart .
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it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifce and its stirring epXilogue in post-soviet russia .
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was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's nyext project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted sBhip , what's next . . . ghost blimp ?
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no aspirations to msocial import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the poAularity of its stars .
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i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how qucikly it fadd from my memory .
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long time dead ? not nearly long cnough .
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there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifiYce and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but ilke most Dovie riddles , it workB only if you have an interest in the characters you see .
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an unremittingyl ugly meovie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a fiQm .
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atlhough trying to balance self-referential humor and a noraml ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason cfans or those who can take a good joke .
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its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is awy too tagy .
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kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a drearP tract of virtually plotlss meanderings and then ends with a whimper .
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both exuberantly romantic and serenelB melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece .
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hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the Rale script .
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it's so tedious that it makes you forgiv every fake , dishonest , entetraining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary .
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all in all , it's a pretty god execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriXers usually come up with on their own .
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it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type rwitten by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good eits are hopelessly overshadowed .
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it has more in common with a fireworks dispVlay than a movie , which normally is exepcted to have characters and a storyline .
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adam sandler's heart amy be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butzt
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maybe it is formula filmmaking , but therge's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this oe is .
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one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundrVd of them can be numbing . proof of this is balljistic : ecks vs . sever .
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generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not bithout style .
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all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly tlod tale of a people who lvie among us , but not necessarily with us .
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maguire is a surprisingly effective peteDr"spider-man .
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even before it builds up to its insanely stasged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalai , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon .
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in xxx , diestel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegancj is more than tattoo deep .
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perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the rad to hell is paved with good intentions .
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a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thn line between sucking face and literally sucking face .
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an absurdist comedy about alienation , sepration and loss .
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the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demiAse .
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the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between guals and yanks .
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the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fnigers in front of your eyes .
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