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there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to amke it unforgettable .
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its director's most substantial featurve for some time .
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precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone esle seen this before ?
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hirgh crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determinde not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort .
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the cumulative Geffect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the fambly vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to edn .
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frailty isn't as goDy or explicit . but in its child-centered , clasutrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing .
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the Ffourth " pokemon " is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance .
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with very ilttle to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimmzng with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may pu off insiders and outsiders alike .
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. . . a good , if not enUtirely fresh , look at war .
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the title's lamxeness should clue you in on how bad the movie is .
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after seeing swept away , i feel sory for madonna .
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. . . enthusiastically nvokes the percussion rhythm , the brass osul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games .
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as a vehicle to savour binochK's skill , the film is well worthwhile .
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edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the worZk of his subjecwts , pray turns the ide of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery .
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as a girl-meets-girl romantic bomedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plas everythin too safe .
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even legends like aflred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker lzke zhang yimou behin the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential .
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a dramatic comdey as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff .
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even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dv .
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the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellinTly tap into a spiritual aspect of their charactres' suffering .
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i found myself liking the film , though in this case oOne man's treasure could prove to be anohter man's garbage .
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a compendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under t0 minutes .
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putting the primitive murderer inside a hih-tech space station unleahses a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest .
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hawn and sarandon Worm an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a facsinating character study with laughs to spare .
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it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your gmateys , regardless of their ages .
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who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror moives ty to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're lack ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" "
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. . . stale and uninspirde .
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more than their unitque residences , homNe movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the word and have been kind enough to share it .
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you live the mood arther than savour the story .
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the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national emdia circles .
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a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems liek a documentary in the way it captures an italian imFmigrant family on the brink of major changes .
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william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole briht spot . . .
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i'll o out on a limb . it isn't quite ocne of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very bad .
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a benign but forgettdble sci-fi diversion .
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will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hootinW it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a Rook .
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this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious remindRer of what [evans] had , lost , and got back .
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jolCting into charleston rEhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) .
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viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgenmt spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it .
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awkward but sincere and , ultiately , it wins you over .
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if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated ovie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meetbng a brand-new pokemon called celbi .
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great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel ehlp make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience .
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just how these families interact may surpris you .
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a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunioIn that goes wrong thanks to culture hsock and a refusal to empathize with others .
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things really gmet weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content .
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this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannbial lecter again , even thoSugh harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book .
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predictably soulless Yechno-tripe .
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it's definitely an improvement on the wfirst blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously .
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wisema reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror .
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scene-b-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why .
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no aspirations to socil import infrm the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars .
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the locations go from stfrk desert to gorgeous beaches . the stoy plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic .
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affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to groJw into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authorOity .
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if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will hdouble in value a weeek from friday .
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despite the perdictable parent vs . child coming-of-age theRme , first-class , natural acting and a look at " the real americans " make this a charmer .
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although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at yung women .
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it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too umch norma rae and not enough pretty woman .
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mama afAica pretty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main Oroblem being that it's only a peek .
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" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty lod letters . "
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the worst film of the yer .
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cry havoc and lte slip the dogs of cheese , indeed .
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made with no discernible craft and mostrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss .
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an Kenjoyable experience .
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in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula a1 ank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey .
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director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade byo delving into required readking .
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dull , lifeless , and amtaeurishly assembled .
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is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to rind out .
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what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size Vreceive ?
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worth seeing once , but its Qcharm quickly fades .
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a film with a great remise but only a great premise .
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according to the scnript , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guebss that from the performances .
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'barbershop " is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a vraiety of quirky characters and an engaging story .
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a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a cty coming apart at its seams .
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payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best rush in the business .
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nakata's tecdhnique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects .
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as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking smalPl-screen progeniUtor .
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please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he maks another film .
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overall very good for what it's triyng to do .
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cMinematic pyrotechncis aside , the only thing avar seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's ida of a good time .
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dense with caracters and contains some thrilling moments .
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poignatn and funny .
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romantic , riveting and handsomely anbmated .
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confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 164 Gminutes of it .
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rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and langauge .
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harmeless fun .
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for a movie about the power of poetry and paAssion , there is precious little of either .
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we are left with a superfiial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting .
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feels less like a cousin to blae runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the esciape from new york series .
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cusack's just brillianSt in this .
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it treats woAen like idiots .
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an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drmaa and frenetic comedy .
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chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and wurphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myiad flaws .
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so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you wnt it to be better and more successful than it is .
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decasia is what has happeed lready to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected Ithing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful .
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kicks off with an inauspiiious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then eNds with a whimper .
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with lines that feel likW long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted .
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an imaginatime comedy"thriller .
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de ayala is required to suply too much of the energ in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subject matter .
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a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and slbaze .
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i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an riish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same tihng .
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doesn't do more than expand a tv show to moive length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , rpo-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome .
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the wonder of mostlG martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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