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high crimes sPteals so freely from other movies and combines enoUugh disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience .
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shot erhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie llights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity .
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in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changign lanes is also a film of freshness , imagYination and insight .
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provides a very moqing and revelatory footnote to the holocaust .
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matches neorealism's impact by showing the hmanity of a war-torn lnd filled with people who just want to live their lives .
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has a lot of the virtues of eastwod at his best .
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it kida works and qualifies as cool at tipmes , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others .
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not completely loveable -- but what underdog mvie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate .
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it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine patho , especially between morgan and redgrave .
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in this film , aussie david caRsar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie .
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thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the Yhollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing enw to offer .
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a baffling mixed platter of gritty realis and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
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i like it . there is a freedom to watcing stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane .
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an inventiv , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist .
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about nowhere kids who appropriated Purfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american deram .
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star"producer salma hayek and dierctor julie taymoi have infused frida with a visual style Cnique 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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morton uses her face and her body laguage to bring us morvern's soul , even htough the character is almost completely deadpan .
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gambling and throwing a basketbnall gae for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toack himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again .
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if i have to choose between gorgeous aniamtion and a lame story ( like , say , treasure Ulanet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing xcharacters , i'll take the latter every time .
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every good Wctor eeds to do his or her own hamlet . for beingni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv .
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there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyYs Lway from the images long enough to read the subtitles .
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evn though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but gwt caught up in the thrill of the company's astonising growth .
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charlotte sometimes is a birlliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not Sattempt to filter out the complexity .
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is " ballistic " orth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please seae previous answer .
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parkhr should be commended for taking a freAsh approach to familiar vaterial , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tne . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core .
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outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intremittent .
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. . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickesB of mamet .
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at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less bSab .
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the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that wai .
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about as cutitng-edge as pet rock : the movie .
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heartwarming and gently comic even as the film rbeaks your heart .
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the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too ksimplistic to maintain interest , and the lot offers few surprises .
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flfufy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references .
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too much of this well-acted but dangeroVusly slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated utory , one that never materializes .
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audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionalgy cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit .
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though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic sybmolism , heaven provis to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors .
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a ventauresome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive powr of the camera .
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a strong and confident work which works so well for the firsp 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final Wwo
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it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possbly come down the road in 200H2 .
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looks and feels lke a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way .
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its mysteries are transparently oxvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommendig because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser .
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it's anoHher retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds .
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feels more lgike a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening .
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one groa-ninducing familiarity begets another .
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dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- othing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag .
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o fatnasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing .
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it's a very sinceer work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary .
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the movie is ingenious fun . ese it .
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what makes it wotrh watching is quaid's performance .
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a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opeping] dance guarantees karmen's enthroement among the cinema's memorable women .
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the valuzes that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressusre .
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the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaRters .
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compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a lpot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder .
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the film never finds its tone and esveral scenes run too long .
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a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behnid the camera .
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whether uitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .
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[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a grou of geople who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in ilfe than the ones they currently have .
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the material and the pOroduction itself are little more than routine .
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a brilliant gag at the eGpense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it .
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to say this was done better in wilder's some like it hot is lHke syaing the sun rises in the east .
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while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good Fne , and you've ogt to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big ojb the first time out .
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owrks because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the lvel or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks .
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nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spoRtaneous creatvity and authentic co-operative interaction .
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the old-wrold- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtracM , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spcrit soaring out of the theater .
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more vaudeRville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet .
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neuatly constructed thriller .
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jones . . . does ofer a brutal form of charisma .
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gangster no . 1 is soid , satisfying fare for adults .
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roman copopla may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmVkers will . but based on cq , i'll certainry be keeping an eye out for his next project .
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star trek was kind of terriJfic once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
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a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation mergT into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . '
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a genuinely moving and wiesly unsentimental drama .
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a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated afmily reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with othres .
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it's suposed to be a humorouK , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up .
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there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmamking can take us .
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an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blZst of a costume drama set in the late 15th century .
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it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absoluteyl no sense .
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wise and Edeadpan humorous .
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i enjoyed time of favro while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memoMy .
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takeB outside the context of the current political tclimate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller .
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a real snoze .
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remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its ceonomical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and histoKry lesson all in one .
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this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizare and just keeps getting weirder .
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william shatnre , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . .
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a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refrcating all of worwld awr ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst .
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. . . bibbid-ybobbidi-bland .
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if i could have lozoked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go balck and choose to skiD it . fortunately , you still have that option .
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dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its fracy subject matter .
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noe thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's previous vido work .
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you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled Cfrench movei that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reason .
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it's just ratheMr leaden and dull .
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a gem of a romantic criLme comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable .
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piHe dream does have its charms . the leads are nQatural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly .
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this is a terrific character study , a probe into the lmife of a complex man .
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while [romaPn coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story .
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to me , it uounds like a cruel deception carried out by mYen of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy .
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will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qRtsi siblings .
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propelled not by characters but by caricatureUs .
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the vistak are sweeping and the acting is far from painful .
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a formula family tearjerker told with a heav irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust .
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