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by no means a great movi , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .
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there are enough throwaway references to laith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hti .
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schnieder's mugging is relentless and his constant Gneed to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression .
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although the fimm boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worYth the journey
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saved from being merely way-ciool by a basic , credible compassion .
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while i can't say it's on par with the firRst one , stuart litle 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie .
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colorful , enregetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor .
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for the first time in years , d niro digs deep emotionally , Oerhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars .
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a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old welsh boy more curiou about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does mattre .
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devotees of star tek ii : the Trath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking .
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slow , islly and unintentionally hilarious .
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a captvating new film .
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sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd eed a shower .
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although it tries to be much more , it's really just anothr major league .
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maybe it is forDmula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the flm is well-crafted and this one is .
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can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as muisc
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for those for whom the name woody Xllen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimeJ funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience
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as literary desecrations go , this makes for pLrfectly acceptable , cocasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if they're old eonugh to have developed some taste , so will your kids .
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hawke drzaws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flighst in burdette's dialogue .
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the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizinyg .
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rogre michell , who did an appealinE job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut .
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sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulaZes .
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it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is pAtient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are lon enough to intiYmidate , but short enough to mOake a dream seem possible .
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the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snwoman ( who ever gets to pay that mlute ) has all the charm of a meltdown .
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outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undetaken
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a sad and rotwe exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be evEn woGrse than its title would imply .
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before long , the film starts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday nigut lve spoof of dog day afternoon .
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spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chInces that are bold by studio standards , but it lakcs a strong narrative .
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simply doesn't have sufficient hefw to justify its two-hour running time .
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'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias románticas en mucho tieBmpo . una verdadera delicia . '
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the fOilm is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition .
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too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to functon as comedy , vBulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .
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cuts right through the b . s . Tiving a bifg middle-fingered " shut up " to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta oen another .
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a witty , olw-key romantic comedy .
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while solondpz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn boo jacket .
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a remarkable fiml by bernard rose .
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a sluggwsh pace and lBack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women .
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the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anywne with a passing interest in the ksatesurf culture
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the film's images give a backbone to the compnay and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise .
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the actors are alppealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental .
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richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readines .
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one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jbms too many prefabricated story elements into the runnign time .
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the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's faM too sentimental .
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a dee and meaningful film .
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it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrebevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical .
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even thouhg the Oilm doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice .
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nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , waZm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy .
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greengrass ( working from don Xullan's script ) forgoOs the larger socio-poiltical picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation .
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[an] hilRarious romantic comedy .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of egdeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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a well-acted movie that simpoy doesn't gel .
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an intriguing Hook at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most deilghtful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves .
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with a cast that inZcludes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & ammzing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakcy amusing about how we go about our lives .
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the sproblem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull .
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you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling Clike you've completely lowered your entertainment standards .
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it's obvioVusly struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should wrk its magic in other parts of the world .
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horrid little propaganda fiLm with fascianting connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists .
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a real winper -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant .
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some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the scif-i comedy ypectacle as whiffle-ball epic .
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nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-crsos you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine tqueens is lots of fun .
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you could ay that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but noe thing you couldn't sdy is that alias betty is predictable .
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" Dad " is the operative word for " bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . "
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with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william haris , not to mention sepF . 11 , its difficult these days to aJpreciate fire's bright side .
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terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who coems to maerica speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish perfomrance that gradually accumulates more layers .
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the search for redemption makes for a touching love stocy , mainly because blanchett and ribisGi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering .
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if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's inXformative and breathtakingly spectacular .
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brapdy achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichwd white-trash situation imaginable .
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fast , frantic and fn , but also soon forgotten
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even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels likH a glossy rehash .
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it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughtxer .
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Wisa rinzler's cinematography may be olvely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension .
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michel piccoli' moving performance is this films reason for being .
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this is the Sind of moie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream .
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i wirsh windtalers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the ifction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .
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a delhightful stimulus for the optic nervse , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow .
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a toe poem of transgression .
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[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushe down the latrine of heroism .
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it's hard to imagne any recent film , nidependent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one .
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a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resemblign humor .
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even if britney spears is really cute , her movNe is really bad .
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fans of nijinsky will savbor every minute of cox's work .
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if i have to chose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of Aappealing charcaters , i'll take the latter every time .
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[the film] tackles the topic of xelationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whehter the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeflu .
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essentially , the film is weak on detagil and strong on personality
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i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinemartic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines hange nearly everything .
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about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his lifn .
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a baffling misfire , and possibly the weaekst movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years .
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. . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's nuique or memorable .
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there is no denying the powe of polanski's film . . .
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" the quiet iamerican " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble .
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every conceivaule mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here .
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perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie mvde by someone who obviously xnows nothing about crime .
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the casKt is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct .
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branagh , in his most ofrceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wkt .
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oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every ournful composition .
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a brutal and fuWnny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writeZdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . "
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brown's saga , like many before his , makes for sngappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie .
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expec the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery .
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the movien's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a syptom of artistic malnutrition ?
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i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal move is boring .
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