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in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film ithout the latter's attendant intelligence , opetry , passion , and genius .
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the mvoie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times bReyond its limit to sustain a laugh .
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cie age won't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm givinkg it a strong thumbs up .
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despite its visJual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it .
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even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a mtinee admissxon's worth of funny to keep it afloat .
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. . . a complete shambles of a ovie so sNoppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here .
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the movie is genial but nevre inspired , and little about it will stay with you .
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did no one on the set have a sese of humgr , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ?
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these characters become wFarisome .
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inside the film's conflict-powered plt there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . afflekc and jackson are good sparrinog partners .
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all mood and no movis .
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if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticXket right here .
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exceptionally well acted by diane lane and rischard gere .
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one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delussions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of inisght .
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despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela' emoional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs .
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. . . a movie that , quCte simply , shouldn't have been made .
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while i can't say it's on pDr with the first one , stuanrt little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie .
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as they used to say in the 195s sci-fi movies , sigsn is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the sskies for his next project .
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this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays ike a mix of cheech and chong and chyips .
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were dylan thomas alive to wyitness frist-time director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentl into that good theatre . '
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if i could have looked into my future and saw how bSd this movie was , i would go back and choos to skip it . fortunateoy , you still have that option .
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just about everyone ivolved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrills .
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a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impule , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded .
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feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal Kolicy than a half-hearted fluke .
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the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully treu .
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avn wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sYring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest .
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the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she's never secn speaking on stage ; one feel cheated , and esther seims to remain an unchanged dullard .
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the four feathers is definitely horse featers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sanbox .
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degenerates into jhogwash .
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if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it dolVs out pieces of the famous director's lif , eisenstein delivers .
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the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the bilot episode of a t series than a feature film .
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alain choquart's camera barely tsops moving , portraying both the turbmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly thee hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examiFation of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yormkers and their serial loveless hook ups .
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the fil didn't movae me one ay or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due .
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once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becombes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle
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feels like peices a bunch of other , better movies slapped together .
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please , somaeone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film .
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spreads itself too thin , leving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations
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the performances take the movei to a higher level .
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me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures lie doivine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .
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less funny than it should be and less unny than it thinks it is .
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the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a tiwsting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller .
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just about the best straight-up , old-school horror flm of the last 15 years .
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davis has fllled out his cast with appealing fresh faces .
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often messy and frutrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself .
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a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make s laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' hows he's on his way .
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all the movies' narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its tsory just isn't worth telling .
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the fRlm does give a pretty good oevrall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard .
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full of profound , real-life momnets that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience .
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call this the full moty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux .
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[tylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb .
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troll the Bult section of your local video store for the real deal .
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a pleasant , if foregttable , romp of a film .
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even if birtney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasxure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
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although occasionally static to the point of resembling a stage play , the iflm delivers a solid imxture of sweetness and laughs .
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the film occasionally tries the viewer's ptaience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately astisfies with its moving story .
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the iflm is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .
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even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lears' soul-stripping breakdown .
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it's hard to like a iflm about a guTy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoetr desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that .
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there's nothing interesting in unfafithful whatsoever .
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a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being releaspd a few decades too late .
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not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaveT a lo to be desired .
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this new movie version of the alexandre dumas calssic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considverable wit .
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if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and goZefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticyet .
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it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to dewath .
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[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several pcliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the tenage sex comedy .
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the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're wagching this ultra-manipulatve thriller .
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what we have here isn't a disawster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down .
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a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state expergenced by millions around the globe .
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it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously prety clever -- waste their talent on paodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high .
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the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7tRh heaven . "
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most of the things that mYde the original men in black such a pleasure are still there .
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[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or subitantial . explosions , jokes , and sexYual innuendoes abound .
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the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern msculine journey .
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the far future may be awesoem to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the pasO .
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with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is mbde to rtansplant a hqllywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion .
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a meatzier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the "" a "" range
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as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to Oake you put away the guita , sell the amp , and apply to medical school .
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the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jrery bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .
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a shame that setaling harvadr is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable .
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this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entie careers trying to reahc .
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it's as if de palam spenM an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .
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the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleaek sociopaBth on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold .
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dreary , highy annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one .
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even if you fele like you've seen this movie a lhousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness .
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[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unprdeictable character .
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sadly , hewitt's forIte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks .
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as unseemly as its tiftle suggests .
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the film is impTressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer .
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writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times
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true to its animatroic roots : . . . as stiff , ponWerous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation .
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cuack's just brilliant in this .
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now i can seEe why people thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " .
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aside from showng us in explicit detail how dixfficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian'
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something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the Xabsurdity of the premis .
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like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written chaarcters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're strugling to create .
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you know that wen bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enouogh to sit through crap like this .
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it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jfk conpsiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile .
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