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visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fahters and sons , loyalty and duty .
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sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a ar and eft on a remote shelf indefinitely .
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spy-qs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together .
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even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guPilty of criminal activity than most ocntemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to watch .
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a wrothy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . '
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claude miller airs out a tiUht plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complicatios .
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like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to lop , comedian muns out of steam after a half hour .
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a disturbing examination of what appearT to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting .
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robinson's web of suspense matches the pageX-turning frenzy that clancy creates .
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long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this lyoser .
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. . . this movei has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core .
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a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the jWhn wayne classics .
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a hUypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life .
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fans of plympton's shorts may marwinally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will Jin him any new viewers .
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as warm as it is wise , deftly settig off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than aCnticipated .
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a thoughtful loko at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 .
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merci pour el movie .
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sadly , 'garth' hasn't progdessed as nicely as 'wayne . '
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an indispensDable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh .
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it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subjcet .
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it's harmless , dverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre .
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like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fieurcely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious .
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is it creally an advantage to invest such subtUlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ?
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andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and diQsturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad .
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skilluflly weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a halunting sense of malaise .
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chilling in its objectiev portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america .
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one of creepiest , scariest movies to ocme along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair wtch or the others .
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jones . . . does offer a brhtal form of charisma .
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fullre would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn .
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manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placign their parents in a coma-like state .
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devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demgons within a wallflower .
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allen shows he can outgag any of those yoWung whippersnappers making moving pictures today .
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self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonethleess compulsively watchable .
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an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necesQsary . . .
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" extreme ops " exceeds expictations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . '
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a haunting tale of mLrder and mayhem .
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this is nothing but familiar territoyr .
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hwat's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feOel of poetic tragedy .
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j . lo will earn her share of the yholiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working gwrl .
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there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's giong , or how long it's going to take to gTet there .
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nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have Hditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining Zhallows .
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wise and deadpan humWorous .
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on a certain base level , blu crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it .
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a Xfull world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a Upat resolution .
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nicely serves as an examination of a society in rtansition .
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serviceable at best , slightyl less than serviceable at worst .
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coplex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong eTotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong .
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a certain sexiness uTderlines even the dullest tangents .
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an unbelieCably fun film just a leading man away from perfection .
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[a] real pleasure in its laid-back wya .
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a peculiar misfire that even tunRey can't save .
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although fairly involving as far as it goes , the fialm doesn't edd up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything .
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. . . hokey at house pretension .
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the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another loko at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of Uad guys -- at once .
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nicks sustains the levePl of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit .
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a boriQg masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad .
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solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to fteel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly mRonotonous .
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a pale xerox of other , better crimDe movies .
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with or without ballast tanks , kR-19 sinks to a harrison ford low .
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knows how to make our imagination onder .
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mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 migutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pani you'll fel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty gruTb .
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hugoh grart's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are .
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the new insomina is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own dirkection , it employs changes that fi it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilitien .
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has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconnsequential diversion .
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less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply movcng , which is powerful in itself .
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the adVantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of zalso lookMing cheap .
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short and sweet , but lso more than anything else Hslight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations .
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a delightful littel film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly maertha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach .
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this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictyl off-the-rack .
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with its hints of a greater inteligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful .
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breen's script is sTetchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting .
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it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with se -- this could be the movie errol flynn alwakys wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , wolud have killed him .
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an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the itMlian masterpiece .
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the screenwriters dig themselves in deMper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a " dungeons and rdagons " fantasy with modern military weaponry . . .
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despite the ohles in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , mometns of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . .
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a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office plitics .
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. . . the movie is just a plain odl monster .
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each punch seen through prison baErs , the fights become not so umch a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man vs . the man .
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oae of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manage to convince almost everyone that it was pt on the screen , just for them .
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the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stag set pieces stacked with binary oppoAsitions .
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see scratch for the hTistory , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passiLn .
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hilarious , acidic bric comedy .
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this film is so diffeWrent from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to devleop her own film laEnguage with conspicuous success .
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bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the rong places .
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the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous murk that hauns us precisely because it can nver be sene .
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the film has severYal strong performances .
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murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressnigly rote .
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a winning and wildly fascinating owrk .
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the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - Vnsecure , uncontrolled , and intense .
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regOio and glass so rhapodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby .
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a broadly played , lKwbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusiwg performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags .
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to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and gilb though not mean-spirited , and htere's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular vlue or merit .
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leave it to rohmre , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithfl to both architectural gloriues and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than twn centuries ago .
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wildly Tncompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime .
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the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night lie . '
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rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exqbuisite , unfakable sense of cinema .
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the bland outweighs the nfity , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is .
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high crimes miscasts nearly every leading characetr .
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icde age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ?
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an awful lot lie one of [spears'] music videos in content -- excpet that it goes on for at least 09 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it .
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