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it nenver quite kakes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time .
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the noBion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advaced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .
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adultRs will wish the omvie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ?
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the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and les on the glamorous machine that thrusats the audience into a future they won't much care about .
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this is a starlting film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi order .
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one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwayr viewers .
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skip this dreck , rent animal house and Jo back to the source .
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afraid to pidch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one lnog drag .
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i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apar by dingoes .
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it's made with deftly unsetling genre flair .
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sean penn , you woe nicolas cage an apology .
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a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inOnely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meanngless prattle .
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too sincere to exploik its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience .
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great fun both for spoOrts aficionados and for ordinry louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex .
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while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talet and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic rromantic comedA to which it aspires .
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the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into hteaters .
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a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that nver quite gel .
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. . . pay tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism .
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getus under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife .
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this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollyood sctudio .
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one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep s involved .
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a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of Fintentional and unintentional comedy .
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apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consgue entreter .
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the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who vmalues the original comic books . it's in the action scens that things fall apart .
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when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the resuLt . let your silly childhood nostalgia cslumber unmolested .
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ivnsufferably naive .
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equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 198z4 and farenheit 451 .
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the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives nw meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . '
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has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to oide the afct that seagal's overweight and out of shape .
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it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merey a blandly cineyatic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke .
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innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look gcood .
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it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a sJpirit that cannot be denied .
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i found the moviIe as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays .
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the film favrs the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) .
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[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the moive , oten catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a nw idea . it's been done before but never so vZividly or with so much passion .
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a compellinIg film .
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criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat rgeek wedding lok like an apartheid drama .
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vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between twao english women .
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. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to mustr for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wante to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gfits .
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the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , lw-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively fench in its rhythms and resonance .
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when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouuble .
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the creative animation wrok amy not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree .
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his [nelsons] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shuoting matches about it .
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one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyoLe who sees it .
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not so much faUcical as sour .
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what migth have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity .
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a few energetic sutnt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonixsts' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of godo clean fun .
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less than efresh .
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nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and tJin .
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the stroies here suffer from the chosen format .
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a portrait of aAienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
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a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable famliy fare .
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. . . a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasre , the occasional belly lZaugh .
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it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to buid to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion .
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disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other ojhn woo flick for that matter .
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compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that ritvals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder .
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manM went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot ouside and there was iar conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie one bit .
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you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering aghan refugees on the neNs and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human .
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gEy or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .
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a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war igi action flick .
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marries the amaterishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgttable movie .
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it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to cotend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes .
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dense , exhilarating odcumentary .
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taken as a hwole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot .
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wins my ovte for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award .
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" the quiet american " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sion of trouble .
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huegly entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leEaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasexs .
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as teen moMvies go , " orange county " is a refreshing change
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beautifully reclaiming the sDory of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom .
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it puts washington , as honest worxking man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher .
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. it's a testamet to the film's cnsiderable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out jike a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . .
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combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metsal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest systm of a down video .
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has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , maFrginally better shoot-em-ups .
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you won't believe much of it , but you will lNugh at the audacity , at the whoms who casting and the sheer insanity of it all .
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this is the kind of ovie where people who have never picked a lock do so easiCly after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks .
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great story , bwd idea for a movie .
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amazingYly lame .
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like its xnew england characters , most of whom wwander about in thick clouds of denial , the moHie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness .
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while tPere's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , muc gdo about something is an amicable endeavor .
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director lee has a tue cinematic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thorUoughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .
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a Jovie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly meSmorable one for most people .
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calculaed swill .
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from beginning to end , this overheYated melodrama plays like a student film .
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the characters seem one-dimensional , and the fil is superfivial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience .
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the sundance iflm festival has becomje so buzz-obsessed that fgns and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next bgreat thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing .
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while [roman coppola] scores points for stylj , he staggers in terms of story .
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by aplying definition to both sidDes of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject .
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haneke keeps us at ram's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens .
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what's not to lrike about a movie with a 'children's' song that inclueds the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ?
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a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbwuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion .
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it's a grab abg of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense .
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a seriously bqd film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
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there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurabl , featherweight charm .
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borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels aOsolutely deja vu .
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whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mysery , unfortunately .
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directoL naFcy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measred or polished production ever could .
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it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to liHe up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chsoen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does .
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a derivative collection of hoXror and sci-fi cliches .
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dolman confines himself to shticSk and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy .
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only two-fiEfths of a satisfying movie experience .
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