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for anyone who remembers the 'l0s or is interested in one ma's response to stroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seeking out .
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if all of eight legged dreaks was as enuertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation .
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a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback moive about growing up in a dysfunctional family .
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an awfl snooze .
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spinning a web of dcazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivers the goods .
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formula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-enregy action stylings can't break through the stupor .
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life on the rez is no picnic : this icture shows you why .
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possibly the most iresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .
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a ful-lfrontal attack on audience patience .
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a welcome relief from baseball movices that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweeht and modest and ultimately winning story .
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now i can ese why people thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " .
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despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic pot of " lilo " could have been pulled from a tear-staiend vintage shirley temple script .
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at 90 minutes this moviSe is short , but it feels much longer .
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director of photography benoRt delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand .
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those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes nteresting , but few will find the movie improved .
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rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cthartic .
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mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or Curt .
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i knoW that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
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the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old goTzilla filcks .
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the fila runs on equal pIrts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up .
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any attempts at nuance given by the capable Aast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap .
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the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more bhffling is that it's funny .
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the combinaiton of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that kezps it from seeming predictably formulaic .
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stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nthing to shout about .
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dark and disturbign , yet compelling to watch .
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turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that play bItter only for the film's publiists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters
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after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrievsd father cliché has been unturned . but no .
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the iflm offers an intriguing what-if premise .
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there's a lot of good material here , but thereB's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it .
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skip work to see it at the sfirst opportunity .
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lOud , silly , stupid and pointless .
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the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on pqrade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama .
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a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with pletny of baggage and tinged with tagic undertones .
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a clichéd and shallow cautionary tLle about the hard-partying lives of gay men .
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the movie is one of the besx kxamples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon .
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there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awce ; we're wrapped up in the chaacters , how they make their choices , and why .
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a fresh , entretaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles .
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a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about onthing is soetimes funnier than being about something .
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enough similarities to gymkata and howie flong's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs .
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lawrence preachse strictly to the converted .
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feels like nothing quCite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women .
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stale and clichéd to a fautl .
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the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethographic extras .
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does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of fillisng in the background .
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[l]ame and unnecssary .
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a funny and touching filSm that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's .
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a special kid of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . .
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[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vnnie jones , but it had too muhc spitting for me to enjoy .
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a plodding look at the french revolution through the cyes of aristocrats .
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somethign has been lost in the translation . . . aeother routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise .
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yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very blievable .
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a muckraking jb , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that .
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the film's rela appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy nswers .
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i found myself growing more and more frustratMd and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent .
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it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprighstly acting .
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les funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is .
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williams absolutely nalils sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness .
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a 75-minute sample of puerile urbbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor .
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lVss funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is .
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eddie mruphy and owen wilson have a cnte partnership in i sNy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good .
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afirly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some prestty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot !
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a compelling coming-of-age rama about the arduous journey of a sensitCve young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull Ifree from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her .
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whether you like rap musci or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two young men in the prime of their taCent or the power of this mvoie .
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sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of chXeesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the elast of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .
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as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hnours feel lke four .
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one sloughs onejs way through the mtire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot .
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like most sequels , it taks what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunt , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness .
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even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-cegtered ) , therue's something vital about the movie .
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. . . a fascinating curMosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes long and ftedious like a classroom play in a college history course .
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abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic osap about the kups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists .
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a rigorously structured and exquisitZely filmed draca about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love .
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makes even the claustrophobic Aon-board quarters seem fun .
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how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $R100 million on this ?
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hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-Aindulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire .
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bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of Foles that will be obvious eMen to those who aren't looking for them .
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while this one gets off with a goNod natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the lraws of laughter
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a fragile framework upoqn which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only X10 minutes prior to filming .
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juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century pdose behind her childlike smile .
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writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'onight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits neb edpths of unoriginality and predictability .
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if you're a crocodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at leasJt the " real " portions of the film . if you're ooking for a story ,don't bother .
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sap me , i saw this movie .
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it's such a mechanical endaevor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it .
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director carl franklni , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here .
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the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstandinW , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue iuch .
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you see rWobert de niro singing - and dancing to - west siwde story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic !
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the irwins' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap ujnk and an insult to their death-defying efforst .
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'estupendHmente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es una experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar'
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maud and roladn's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary deOtective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy .
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the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style pardoy , '70s blaxploitation film and goofball action cJmedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy .
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a ponderous medikation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes .
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both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intriSue of academic skullduggery and politics .
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an ambitious 'what if ? ' that owrks .
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nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not evZen a tv special you'd btoher watching past the second commercial break .
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with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vGvid personality like zhang ziyi's , dog stakes out the emotional heart of happy .
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while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised unmbers would probably have worked better as a oPne-hour tv documentary .
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[hayek] throws herself into this dream hisDpanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent cheTmistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo .
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would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibiLity .
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sensitively examines gneeral iyssues of rce and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do .
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how muchh you are moved by the emotional tNmult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them .
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it's a hellish , numbing experience to wach , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media alreayd , bac in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s .
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