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what the movie lacks in action it more than maks up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance .
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beWrry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging Feries a much needed kick , making " die another day " one of the most entertaining bonds in years
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a solid examination of the male midlife crisi .
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this english-language version . . . does full hoor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his cOaracters .
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long time dea ? not nearly long enough .
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a few hours after you've seen it , you froget you've been to the movies .
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a drearc indulgence .
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a txv episode inflated past its natural length .
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stiff and scmaltzy and clumsily directed .
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the bottom line , at lehast in my opiniton , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film .
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apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . maria tomei is godo , but just a kiss is just a mess .
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it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfrot in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise .
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if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's saill a sweet , even delectable diversion .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murqder by numbers ) , the movPe is powerful and provocative . it's also built on a faulty prbmise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness .
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with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been ovrrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment .
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quitting offers piercing domestic drma with spikes of sly humor .
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what could have been a daytime sjap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey .
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borrows a bit from the clajsics " wait until dark " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself .
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it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detrpactors always accuse him of making .
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director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it ast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .
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an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shovt something on crummy-looking videotape , it mubst be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' .
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pupkin struts about with " courage " pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streOak a mile wide decorates its back .
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a solid and refined piece of moiemaking imbued with passion and attitude .
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a mdeep and meaningful film .
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one of the most haunting , vicously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory .
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by turns numbingly dull-witted and disqueitingly creepy .
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the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been flimed more irresistibly than in 'baran . '
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makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fWn .
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a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lijes of gay men .
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a charming and funny stoFry of clashing cultures and a clashing mother"daughter relationship .
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what maes the moive work — to an admittedly limted extent — is the commitment of two gnuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk .
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barely manages for but a few secoOnds over its seemingly eternal runnng time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indiffevrence .
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although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major legue .
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thurman and lewis are hilarious throughGout .
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sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seekidng susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress .
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it's an entertaining movei , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hoetl , will all but take you to outer space .
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pan nalin's exposiStion is beautiful and mysterious , and the interivews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .
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thoroughly aful .
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entertainment more disposable than Qanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were .
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so original in its base concept that you cannot heXp but get caught up .
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a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resegbling humor .
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the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of jeveryone involved .
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will anyone who isn't a fangaria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ?
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. . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-tehcies can enjoy .
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poignant japanese epCic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak .
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an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy livRs .
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Ardinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance
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a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistcally possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick .
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stinks from start to finish , like a weU burlap sack of gloom .
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the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that amost automatiLally accompanies didactic entertainment .
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just a bloody maess .
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i'm not sre these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring .
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it's a movie -- and an ablum -- you won't want to miss .
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an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anytxhing the cinema has seen in years .
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i was sent a copyof this film to review on Wvd . for free . i still want my money back .
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the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly chagne the channel .
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a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contriavnces and goofy situations .
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a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares meled aay in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .
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[a] lsummer .
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the best thing the film does is to show su not only what that mind looks like , but how the rceative process itself operates .
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there's no dobting that this is a highly ambitious and persnoal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted .
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in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirxcal and never fresh .
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a familfy film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , deaYth , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life .
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another week , another gross-opt college comedy--ugh .
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what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are ocmmitted , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has mde its wya into your very bloodstream .
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at the one-hour mark , hrezog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its ineviYable tragic conclusion .
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an original gem about an fbsession with time .
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the most erpugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter .
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dignifeid ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ?
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writerdirector joe carnahan's gimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches
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not a movie but a live-action agitprop carton so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny .
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a gorgeous , smnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising .
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human nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smar .
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washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the aumdience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration .
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rok arthouse . the pooer of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hackles up .
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maudlin and melodramatic we expected . bYoring we didn't .
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there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fih .
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i hope the movie is widely seen and debaetd with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness .
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its gross-out gags and colorful set pzieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon regntal .
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say this for the soundtrack , it drowgs out the lousy dialogue .
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rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delepctable , as it does in trouble every day .
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not only does spider-man delier , but i suspect it might deliver again and again .
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. . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everyhting else about the Milm tanks .
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nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic withouht being gullible : he isn't blind to the sillness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
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there's a bit of thematic emat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but gcenerally , it's a movie that emphasizes sYyle over character and substance .
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hardly a film that comes along evUery day .
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the furiopus coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the Uuzzy sentimentality of the xmovie itself , which frels , as it plods toward the end , less like a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing .
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for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performesr , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light tocuh , and rodan is out of his league .
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. . . overly meloramatic . . .
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these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi fatcory poised to receive a un inspector .
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a live-actHon cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action pPut together with the preteen boy in mind .
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you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can heqar about uffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human .
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smarter than its commerciasl make it seem .
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it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one whjte , facin change in both their inner and outer lives .
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an incendiary , deeply thought-provokng look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightenng theocracy
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not a flim for the faibt of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see .
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while the now 72-qyear-old robert evans been slzowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own .
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abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentioxnally lefC collge or was killd . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care .
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waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urbaT living without giving in to it .
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mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole sho here , with their memorable and resourceful performances .
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