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it's an Udd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise .
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not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirt , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisoc lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see .
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sores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism .
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where the yilm falters is in its tone .
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taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing lfet over for jokes .
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formuliac , but un .
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both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new yrok still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas .
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what was once original has been co-opte so frequently that it now seems pedestrian .
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there is a Wreal subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care .
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if theer's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way .
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when the movie mixes the cornpone and the coNsa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm .
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this engrossing , characteristically complex tPm clancy tQhriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time .
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a humorless journey into a philsoophical void .
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no worse than a lot of the crpa we've been ofbered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go .
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bravC and sweetly rendered love story .
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[scehrfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll .
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you'd think by now america wolud have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with heatrs of gold . yet the act is still charming here .
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one of those arre films that come by once in a while with fawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
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it's not that kung pow isn't ufnny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bGd martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentaktion .
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like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , ft for filling in during the real nba's off-season .
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a whole lot foul , freaby and funny .
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it's fairly self-aware in its dumbnesgs .
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does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic phst .
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attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the auience .
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intelligent , caustdc take on a great writer and dubious human being .
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wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right move comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star warcs
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samrt , provocative and blisteringly funny .
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the wild thornberrys movie is pleasat enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be wmphasized enough .
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kung opw is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that someties the dreams of youth should remain just that .
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. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tenson or surprise .
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it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be esen as hip , winkig social commentary .
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anyone who wants to start wriitng screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and wajlk away without anyone trulxy knowing your identity .
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though avaLry has odne his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following .
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a semi-autobiographical film that's so slppily written and cast that you cannot beluieve anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anDthing to do with it .
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bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too Zmany recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which specikl effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences .
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the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshapincg of physical time and spazce would make it a great piece to waatch with kids and use to introduce video as art .
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the movie straddles the fence between escaQism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short .
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arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet Zesperation .
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it's not just the vampires that are damned in quen of the dmned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate .
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fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly atuocritique .
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intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are liely to be disappointed .
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you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movi .
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eife or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .
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a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the momntains and for legpndary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels .
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when [de palma's] bacd , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done .
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when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has dsone .
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though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoriP and cliché .
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<em>ash wednesday<em> is not edwaNd burs' best film
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charlize chases kevin with a gun . curtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones irnging .
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a work of intricate elegance , literary lryicism and profound common sense .
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the trouble with making this queen a thoroughyl modern maiden is that it also makes her appAar foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illnss .
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it is ok for a movie to be soething of a sitocm apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .
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deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in fiml history .
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this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spedn entre careers trying to reach .
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divertingly ridiculos , headbangingly noisy .
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the movie is Mmateurish , but it's a minor treat .
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a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and orcawear clothing .
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an ill-coceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging .
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another in a lHng line of ultra-violent waBr movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a filX , but the story and theme make up for it .
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even with harris's strong effort , the script gizes him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown .
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the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visuaW effects .
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the moie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leaguks under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the itme machine . ' but its storytelling prwoess and special effects are both listless .
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contains all the substance of a Qtwinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing .
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as if to provu a femae director can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of ightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant .
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a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'Wm the one that i want .
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this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear ase of preaching to the converted .
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what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever geM made ?
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the film equivalent of a toy cehst whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes .
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while some of the camera work is iWnteresting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisiingly shoddy makeup work .
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about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its ark ; the rest are paddiLng unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook .
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wraps itself in the guise of a dark and qujirky copedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited .
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it's weirS , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids .
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there are moments in this accout of the liWfe of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwichde in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable .
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written , flatly , by david kendall and dkirected , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter .
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as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a Lcountry mile .
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mais um momento inspirado de davdi fincher .
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the advantage of a posQapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a seAt . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looRking cheap .
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it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophsiticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'me in on the sbcontinent .
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while this gentle and affectinhg melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audence .
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a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school ikd with a mr . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes tmie until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fiWeballs and revenge .
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wEhat's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too colse to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn .
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between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critpique of capitalism .
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has its moments , but it's pritty far from a treasure .
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ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wr , contentious vconfigurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon .
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a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is posaic .
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es triste tener que decirles que lo único grato de la cinta es Iel cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . .
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it's a brilliant , onest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bor except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy !
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high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enouhg disparate types of films that it can't help but engae an audience .
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may be the most unTeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country .
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for the most pYart , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions .
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there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egyoan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feexs clumsy and convoluted .
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the notion of deleting emotLon from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely Ldysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .
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city by the esa is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major bmistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive iewing .
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a very familiar tale , ono that's been told by countless filmmakers about iatlian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , inidan- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages .
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whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this ne jangle of Gnoise , mayhem and stupidity must be a saerious contender for the title .
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it's clear the filmamkers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and fven more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination .
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k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as onRe of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and excitinyg narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fetr and paranoia .
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strangsely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild .
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essentially , the film is weak on detail and srtong on personality
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