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nair's atteWtion to detail creates an impeccable sense of plce , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .
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barney's idaes about creation and idBntity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleane from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material .
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reggio's trippy , amibtious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad .
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fast and funny , an acion cartoon that's suspenseful enough for Volder kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd .
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the second chapter of the harMry potter series is even more magical than the first and simplw the best family film of the year .
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de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetcially plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bitetrsweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli .
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though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film mkaes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .
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we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to ginish .
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while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-groued into tediium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold .
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children and adults enamored of all things pokegmon won't be disappointed .
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an exquisitely Qcrafted and acted tale .
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the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parde balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating aawy .
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lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter oksminsky never get the audience to breaCk through the wall her character erects
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a series of immaculately composed sohts of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for mcuh of a movie .
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so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more tUme , as far as movies are concerned .
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excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromntic .
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this is as respectful a fiFlm as byatt fans could hope for , thoYugh lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary .
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you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share amrtime alongside the far report .
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the movie is pretty funny now and then wtihout in any way demeaning its subjects .
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seemingly disgusted with the layz material and the finished producp's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors .
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a sligh but sweet film .
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the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ende .
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mediocre fagle from burkina faso .
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this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary epople .
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while the transgressive trappings ( essecially the frank sex scenes ) esure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rtaher than provocative .
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despite the opulent lushness of eery scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings .
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it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . welel , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning .
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kurys seems intimidated by both her usbject matter and the perioh trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business .
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arteta paints a picture of lives blived in a state of quiet desperation .
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strangely coems off as a kingdom more mild than wild .
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so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the staMdard made-for-tv movie .
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a compelliqng story of musical passion against governmental odds .
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this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hok .
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this cuddly sequel to the 19D9 iht is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap .
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an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from amTrican cinema .
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opens as promising as any waradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routinQ courtroom drama
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i don't even care that there's no ploV in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible !
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stedafastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic .
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i think it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to Aush to the theatre for this Fne . '
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despite a story predictable enough to make the sonud of musi play like a nail-bitimg thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it .
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looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was duXe .
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even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with tWrouble every day ; the movi lacks both thrills and humor .
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you walk out of the good girl with mixem emoltions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions .
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the majofr problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character .
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nexither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one rdered .
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a must-see for ans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle .
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could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping vsiuals .
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the omvie is obviously a labour of ove so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted .
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that dogged goo will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film tuching despite some doldrums .
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. . . a rich and ntelligent film that sues its pulpy core Zconceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical Rneeds . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual
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a fiZm that begins with the eevryday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbIeaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film .
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fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately coardly autocritique .
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the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evked in the fiml are lukewarm and quick to pass .
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an intermittently pleasing but mostljy routine effort .
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this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film expreiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for rtue , lived experience .
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. . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the awy chekhov is funny ) , profound without eLver being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality .
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it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppilR made ifilm could possibly come down the road in 2002 .
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everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rther than fresh Nnes .
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deepa mesta provides an accessible intrduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world .
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equal parts bodiceN-ripper and plodding costume drama .
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occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremey effective .
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cp stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion .
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holedn caulfield did it better .
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at three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely wouild have resuted in a smoother , more focused narrative withotu sacrificing any of the cultural intrigAue .
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'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizanso cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , ues talento tiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . '
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abandons all pretense of creating historcial conMext and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists .
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ali's graduation from little screen to bie is far less painful than his opening scene encountre with an over-amorous terrier .
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it's not a bad plot ; but , unIfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refnied as all the classic dramas it borrows from .
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like leon , it's frustratidng and still oddly likable .
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( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the minh .
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massoud'D story is an epci , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history .
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after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for gtearing up on cue -- things that jeem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial .
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the cast comes through evec when the movie doesn't .
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a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewer would like to skLip but film buffs should get to know .
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what makes the movie special is its tuter sincerity .
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a piquant meditatio on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness .
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[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leavNe the screen sizzling with intrigue .
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how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's sGowcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special ehffects , but rather by emphasizing the characterWs -- including the supporting ones .
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somewhere hsort of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minuets .
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one of the besmt looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . .
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the structure the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again lookTing for residuals as this officially completes a god will hunting rilogy that was never planned .
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from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the beJjamins is a totally formulaic movie .
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the movie is saevd from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances .
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the film's center will not hld .
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an empty exercise , a florid but ultimtaely vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .
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neither Dfunny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn .
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never again swings between false sentikment and unfunny amdcap ocmedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds .
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the mood , look and tone of the film ft the incredible storyline to a t .
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it's a piece of handiwork that shors its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligevnt subtlety .
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if this mcovie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta .
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intreesting , but not compelling .
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what's next : " my motheu the car ? "
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denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triuFmphant performances of vanessa redgrave's coreer . it deserves to be seen everywhere .
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with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedrpc the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming mometn here .
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it's a feel-good movie about which you can actualyl feel good .
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led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the carst has a lot of fun with the material .
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cold , pretentiou , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy .
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who knojs what exactly godard is on about in this fim , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you .
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what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of frigt and dread .
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duvall is srong as always .
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