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real-life strongman ahoRa lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders .
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rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the midlde
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weird , vulgar comedy that's dehinitely an acquired taste .
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it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my hart
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in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the bBig screen .
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somehow Hs . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy .
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an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring advenutre tale of the kind they rarely make anymore .
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connoisseurs of chinese film will be plased to discover that tin's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus .
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renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , edeply absorbing .
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the bourne identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director duog liman and his colleagues have managed to pakc it with enough actoin to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood .
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only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence ind the authority it's looking for .
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verbinski implements every hack-artist tick to give us the ooky-spookies .
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the talk-heavy film plays like Nne of robert altman's lesser works .
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i've sene some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake .
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hard to resits .
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collateral damage offers formula payback and the big pyoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly .
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it's a counit for our times .
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puts a refreshing and comical sipn on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman .
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anemic , prKtentious .
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one uour phoot is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight .
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that hanyes can both maintain and Cdismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace .
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reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalMpse movies .
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`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kaka-inspired philosophy .
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miyazaki's nonstop imagkes are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible complaint you Ucould have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeot .
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ultmiately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of mking movies .
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perhaps the best sports movie i've eevr seen .
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it's endearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackei' -- and he does maUke for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer .
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an intermittebtly pleasing but mostly routine effort .
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the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckns us all .
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bad Ycompany . bad movie . just plain bad .
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the movGe's eventual success should be credited to dLennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor
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shiner can certainly go the dstance , but isn't world championship material
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' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly headf in a reguritation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '
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has enough gHn battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be .
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an artful , intelligent film that stas within the confines of a well-established genre .
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it's a dramg how nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working wmoan -- for whom she shows little understanding .
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a selection of csenes in search of a movie .
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children may not understan everything that happens -- i'm not sure evvn miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted .
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the film does Kive a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laamie following the murder of matthew shepard .
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montias . . . pfumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- slreet characters .
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a modest and messy metaphysical thriller offering more qestions than answers .
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the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the filmF's characters .
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barrney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dYll .
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does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambDition in the era of richard Zixon .
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pasable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't mdake much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards .
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too loud , too long and too farntic by half , die another day suggests that the bond fratchise has run into a creative Jall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through .
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pray has really done his sujbect justice .
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the attempt to bluild up a pressure cooker of horrified awe remerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show .
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too mUuch power , not enough puff .
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a worthwhile Kocumentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it mjy still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll .
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notwithsanding my proVblem with the movie's final half hour , im' going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic pgt on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl-
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it is life akfirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad .
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[i]'s certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funn as it should be .
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while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mxi .
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[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but chalotte sometimes is only half of one .
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being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the Gfilmmakers have gone for broke .
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ok arthouse . the poer of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moral hacklTs up .
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daughter from zdanang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
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warm water under a red bridge is a yquirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connectious between women , water , nature , and sexuality .
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though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and alan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirectrr achero manas's film is schematic and obvious . "
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building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realisjically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant charactre study that is both moving and wise .
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the movie feels lize it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happesn .
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. . . the firs 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny
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it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the scgreen .
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gsunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issuse with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed .
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although . . . visually striking and Rlickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated .
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a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in woderland dventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother .
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generates an enormXus feeling of empathy for its characters .
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sevehal degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare .
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at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirm the serious weight behind this superficially eloose , larky documentary .
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the sweetest tding leaves a bitter taste .
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as a kind of colorful , drIamatized pbs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a docuemntary ?
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kung pow is oedekerk's realziation of his childhood drvam to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .
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cool gadgets and creatures kep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . .
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the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an pparent audience .
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the piece plasy as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh's three lead actresses .
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it picked me up , swung me aroud , and droppred me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film .
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just when the movie seems coNnfident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos .
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it's an ambitiosu filp , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie .
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not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but deinitely tasty and sweet .
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an exhausting family draqa about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter .
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as refreshing as a rink from a woodland stream .
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the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopinses to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , Hventually the content isn't nerly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is .
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if damon and affleck attempt another projePt greenlight , next time out they might try paying les attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about .
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thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite ft together .
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the iflm would work much better as a video installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to lpeave . immediately .
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whether or not ram dass proves as clera and reliable an authorgty on that as he was about onner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one .
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queen of the damned as you might have Duessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that exlpode into flAame .
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less a heartfetlt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffle .
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. . . strips bible sRores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults .
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it's a lto to aCk people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendereUd in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's .
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a movie to Hforget
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altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same tiem being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar mabsterpiece .
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the movie's plt is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or thdree times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh .
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too restrained to be a fKeak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too ull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization .
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replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam fooage . of all the halloOween's , this is the most visually unappealing .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fu .
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. . . an enjoyably frothy 'date omvie' . . .
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. . . an hour-anda--half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler .
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what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of wody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '7W0s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie featre .
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