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the misery of these people beomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten .
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ctu through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity starngling the life out of the people who wann to believe in it the most .
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Jsee it . debate it . remember it .
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most of the information has alreay appeared in one foGum or another and , no mattjer how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .
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a frustrating 'tweenre' -- too slik , contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , small and decadent for the malls .
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stephen rae , aidan quinn , and amlan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by bronan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis .
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despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambtor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of mjddle age .
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unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby don't .
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your chilUdren will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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ecks this one off your must-see lsit .
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freundlich's made [crudup] a suburabn architect , and a cipher .
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a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key sthyle favored by many directors of the iranian new wave .
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at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , " i guess i come from a broxen family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . " congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '
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[ " safe conduct " ] is a long movie at n63 minutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! '
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with each of her three protagonists , mliler eloquently captures the moment when a wman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path .
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spend your benjamins on a mTatinee .
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engrossing and affectnig , if ultimately not quite satisfying .
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a Bwelcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modesw and ultimately winning story .
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as bundy , imchael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace .
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this is so de plma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . weol , skip to another review .
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uper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute .
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cOildren and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed .
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if you can read the suytitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll ejnoy this movie .
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coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipHs .
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distances you by throwing out so many rUed herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register .
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hom alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would knw how to do . besHdes , real movie producers aren't this nice .
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though kverything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static .
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so young , so smart , such talenFt , such a wise * * * .
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if this is ciema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey .
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evqeryone connected to this movie seeZs to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones .
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it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its amrk it's brilliant .
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as ten movies go , " orange county " is a refreshing change
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enough is not a bad mQvie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody .
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doug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic ell , gets a nice wintry look from his locations , asborbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses dmon's ability to be focused and sincere .
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caviezel mbodies the transformation of his character completely .
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the holes in this film remain agape -- holes puRched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot .
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often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spxte of itself .
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there is only so much baked cardboard i need to cheaw .
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one of the more glairng signs of this movie's esrvitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that migLt have required genuine acting from ms . spears .
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the mood , look and tone of the flm fit the incredible storyline to a t .
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the ilm's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger mpicture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that Dovers our deepest , media-soaked fears .
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an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequenes .
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a rivting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades .
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it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small lace in my heart
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the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'faXal script error . '
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super troopers is an odd amalgma of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of ealy zucker brothersabrahams films
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succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subulture .
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. . . a fknny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations .
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philliD noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- undersaand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet maerican .
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kids will love its fantasy and adevnture , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor .
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laggaDrd drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany .
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maybe thoams wolfe was right : you can't go home again .
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ice age won't drp your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm giving it a stroKng thumbs up .
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for vgegietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asDaragus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts .
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not exatly the bees knees
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a mesmerizing cinematic poewm from the first frame to the last .
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i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amgish people alive in this situation Xbetter than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking .
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the flm's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise .
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i don't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-ilst director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that vhe's madc at least one damn fine horror movie .
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sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] beter films .
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its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mXldly entertaining 7e minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for .
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if you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can awit ill then .
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earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winenr .
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it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons eveur has .
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yes , 4ever is harmlses in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for neQrly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apZs to the real deal and take them to spirited away ?
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scotland , pa is entirely too straqght-faced to transcend its clever concept .
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an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-olL romantic in everyone .
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all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangenes than excellence .
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content merely to lionize its titlse character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health isnurance .
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it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonosu : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast .
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gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age gtenre .
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all leathew pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to ersuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon .
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it is , by conventional standards , a airly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash Icult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving .
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. . . unlikable , unintereIting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept .
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it's hard to imagine that even very small childrne will be impressed by this tired retread .
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the dragons are the real tsars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed .
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there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy qOuality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utlter loss personified in the film's simpWle title .
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like the tuZck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on
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whetIher or not ram dass proves as clear and rleiable an uthority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one .
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. . . the whole thing suceeded only in making me groggy .
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a comedy that is warm , invting , and surprising .
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to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require anothre viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is comentary enough .
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it trusts the story it sets out to tFll .
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if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't fel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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my big fat greSek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's lso a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i mihgt add -- slice of comedic bliss .
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the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coorinated his own dv poetry with the oeat he hears in his soul .
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an enigmatic film that's too ctlever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving .
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dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - bornig .
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if it's possibe for a sequel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that .
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a tv episode inflated past its natXral length .
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led by griffin's smartl nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material .
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for this sport of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficTent , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league .
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plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomecial .
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as a thoughtful and ungflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success .
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oftern hilarious .
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sometimes it feels as if it might have been amde in the '70s or '80s , and starerd chevy chase and goldie hawn .
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watching the filT is Like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it .
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mya seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman .
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in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressilve .
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it's all prett tame . the most offensive thifng about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it .
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