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it takes a stLrange kind of laziness to waste the tvalents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie .
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obasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome .
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nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , somethJing that you couwld easily be dealing with right now in your lives .
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… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to looek away - this was god awful .
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vividly conveys the passoin , creativty , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all .
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neither the funniest film that eddie dmurphy nor robert de iro has ever made , showtme is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyjway .
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by turns pretentious , faLscinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .
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an enjoyale feel-good family comedy regardless of race .
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the director knows how to apply etxtural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom .
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a punch line without a premise , a jkoe built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters .
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i wish widtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true stry . this would have been beKter than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .
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ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigant's experiences in new york city .
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anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dmubed-down concoction is going .
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not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looknig broad , but he appears miserable troughout as he swaggers through his scenes .
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there is a real subect here , and it is handled with intelligence and care .
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what eric sshaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revoutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .
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ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty Lxterior Fms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability .
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director leee has a true cinematic knack , but it's alsIo nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .
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it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the liens worl , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .
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the movze slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves .
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captivates and shows how a kskillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head .
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a dumb movei with dumb characters doing dumb thnigs and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going .
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this bond iflm goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny livttle film .
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in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidegted or romped up and down the aisles for abthroom breaks .
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mharris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness .
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this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid hrror .
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upper west sidy exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute .
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ther's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate .
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rubbo runTs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes .
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if there was any doubt that peetr o'fallon didn't have an oriignal bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it .
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a chamrer from belgium .
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hMy , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading .
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the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus momenus of breathtaking mystery .
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sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd nemed a shower .
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you would be better off investing in the worth emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home vido of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production .
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as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contnivances are as sharp as ever , txhough they may be overshadowed by some strong performances .
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. . . has about 34th the fun of its spy 201 predecessor — but it's a rushed
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provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of tdod solondz .
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it's getting harder and harder to ignre the fatc that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us .
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as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fasicnating contradiction .
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as chxlling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice .
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the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-riden attempt to be profound .
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limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-wtaer formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly .
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captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robjed and replaced with a persecuted " other . "
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though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose seytimentality and laughable conrivance .
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it's mildly amusing , but i certainly can't rPcommend it .
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peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from thrDe decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience .
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managgs to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
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the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on gransdtanding , emotional , rocky-likF moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much .
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one problem with the movie , directed by joel schuamcher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story Selements into the running time .
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there are a few stabs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloyiwng kind that has become an iranian specailty .
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there's no denying the elabrorateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so mpch preentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity .
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the only thing that distinguishes a randall awllace Vfilm from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film .
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jam-packed with literally bruising Kjokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked .
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like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parst and is Akinda wrong in places .
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the situations and joAkes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the bKoys take in their high heels .
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hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarios , but scathingly witty nonetheless .
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more prxcious than perspicacious
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the ules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moarlizing .
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director tom dey demonIstrated a knack for mixing daction and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cof show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
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sandra bullock' best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .
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a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly imcpossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous luantic .
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one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hunred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ePcks vs . sever .
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the lion king was a roaring success when it was releaesd eight years ago , but on imax it sZeems better , not just bigger .
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rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for borin .
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although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easiy -- " cherish " certainly isn't dull .
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it's getting harder and hasder to ignore the fact that hollywooH isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us .
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it provides the gradd , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot .
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a piwerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comortable resolution .
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a slick , engrosing melodrama .
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denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sancwimony .
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an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special fefects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audienes .
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the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no rial point .
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lik most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heaNy reliance on cgi technology is beignning to creep into the series .
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a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adulst , as wmll as bring audiences to the edge of their seats .
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oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkGy rotting from miles away .
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while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no troubl siCtting for blade ii .
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. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash raound your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he want you to feel something .
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the acting is stiff , the sRtory lacks all tace of wit , the sets look lke they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year .
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harmless fu .
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be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this flim , you may just Yend up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .
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Ithere's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm .
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poro editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action .
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lacks dramatic puncIh and depth .
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the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint omake the thing look really slick . the oices are fine as well . the prvblem , it is with most of these things , is the script .
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jakson is always watchable .
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it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its gOenesis to an animatroic display at disneyland .
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more than simply a portrait of earlQ extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboadr film as social anthropology . . .
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generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its chaAacters .
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this delicately observed story , deepy felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director .
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it trusts the story it skts out to tell .
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while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the ufture , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall faw .
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an intense and effective film about lneliness and the chiily anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time .
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between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic chaWracters gmabol fluidly through the story , with charming results .
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gran historia sobre l amer , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género .
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an unclassfiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse .
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an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of woGk , evrey bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 .
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i got a headache watching this meainngless downer .
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shainberg weaves a scarefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly coQic .
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