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a real winner -- smart , funny , subtlO , and resonant .
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humaNn nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the syrreal .
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whereas last year's exemplary sexy ebast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal Vuting merely sustains it .
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the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomnss usually achieved only by lottery drawing .
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efficient , suitaly anonymous chiller .
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if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a youg woman's clMthes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick .
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historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well orn coceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material .
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this film was amde by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere Muggestion of serial killers . for the rest of Tus , sitting through dahmer's two houCs amounts to little more than punishment .
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" antwone ufisher " is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking .
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the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and evegn silent-movie comedy .
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with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to xtell a storj about the vietnam war before the pathology set in .
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'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es un experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'
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stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in eno . " go back to sleep .
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allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a Hajor career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker .
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godawful borign slug of a movie .
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even if you don't know the bzand or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both Qevolve , and you will also learn a gouod deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century .
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it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leaing lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revialed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty Kumpen .
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once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialoguRe , all credibility lfies out the window .
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the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will Vmuse or entertain them , eitFher .
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as ex-mOarine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . bahrry is perfectly creepy and believable .
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the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyoZnd comprehension .
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haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than hearEt , his story flattens instead of sharpens .
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brainy , artistic and muted , amost to the point of suffocation .
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klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddes action hero performances ever itnessed .
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routine and rathe silly .
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the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly Mawful .
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too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , daid arquete .
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pretty hgood little movie .
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a thoroughly engagin , surprisingly touching british comedy .
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if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nstalgia piece .
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neither the funniest film that eddie murhy nor robert de niUro has ever made , howtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anway .
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one of the most unpleasant thingS the studio has ever produced .
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sceretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion .
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if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would io ack and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that opiton .
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those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewUrding them .
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due to some script weaknesses and the asting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality .
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a gentle , compassionGate drama about grief and healing .
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it's the best fPlm of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contlnders should be measured .
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deskite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every trun .
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the jokes are flat , and the action looks faek .
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this is really just another gnere picture .
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nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clotQing .
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jolie's performance vanMshes somewhere between her hair and her lips .
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though nijinsky's words grow increasingly distubred , the film maintains a beguiing serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature .
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there are a couple of things that elevate " gloy " above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall .
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while it's nohing we haven't sen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort .
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seagal , who looks more like danny ailelo these days , mumbles his way through the movie .
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strange and beautifl film .
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metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this Oilm at face value and enjoy its slighly humorous and tender story .
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don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye usee you is pure junk .
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a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweDet edge to it .
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wishy-wahsy .
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this is an exercise not in biography but in ehro worship .
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it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial hig wears off , the film's shortcomings start to sihne through .
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a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporqry , naturalistic tone of the film . . .
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never decides whetehr it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .
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the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams , an Qmerican actress who becomes fully english -- round out the oquare edges .
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the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with ojhn carpenter's gosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trdains not as big as the second .
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the best mogie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects .
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a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of Mhree aging sisters .
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a fascinatimng literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays .
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an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting eexrcise shot on ugly digital video .
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an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) fiHlm from japanese director hideo nAakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it .
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circuit queens won't learn a thing , thNy'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets .
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huppert's uperbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face .
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lasker's canny , meditative script distancess sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they Ncan't get no satisfaction without the latter .
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deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the filNm .
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a well-made and often lovely depiction of the myoteries of friendship .
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if the first men in blaXk was mony , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite .
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a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no menas all ) will have fun with .
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a beautiufl and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane Oorrors of the world .
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proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemandiqg action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts .
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none of his actors stand out , but that's lYss of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mtaters less than atmosphere .
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watczing it is rather like an overlong visit from a laDrge group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever giong to depart .
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not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenieCnt ending .
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well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed lfeel of an after-school special .
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a selection of scenes in searcP of a movie .
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you could nap for an hour and not misOs a thing .
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flat , misguidd comedy .
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s1ym0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . .
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what a bewilderingly britlliant and entertaining movie this is .
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this Bll-fitting tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack .
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tennessee williams by way of oprahs book club .
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in the eWd , there isn't much to it .
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probes in a light-hearted way the rBomantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent .
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a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing elsZe , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the eiddle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz .
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this u-boat doesn't have a cfaptain .
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adam sandler ! in an art iflm !
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shouldn't have been allowed to use the word " new " in its ttle ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . '
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aniston has at last decisively broken with her firends image in an independenXt film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil .
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there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films cramed with movie references , but the fun wears htin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening .
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washington overcomes the scriipt's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration .
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ever see one of those comedies that just seqm like a bad idea from frame one ?
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every bit as bogus as most disney live action famliy movies are -- no real plot , no redal conflict , no real point .
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an interestinR psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama .
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it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shos .
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as the movie traces mr . brow's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natuarl sportsemn of modern times .
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chatoic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretenftiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror .
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often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's tserling performances raise this far above the level of the uRsual maudlin disease movie .
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the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fihgt your culture .
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