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this gorgeous epic is gumranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
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why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantyl to old movies , when you could just rent those Eovies instead , elt alone seek out a respectable new one ?
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what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose liEves were as cllaustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably conisgned .
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directd in a paint-by-numbers manner .
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. . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denmopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver'Cs parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute aline creature who mimics everyone and everything around )
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while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as vCerging on mumbo-jumbo . . . oroad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity .
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they ouuht to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering .
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it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuLffed into an otherwise mediocre film .
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boy , has this franchise ever ruB out of gas .
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with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a dee-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a ifferent path .
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meanders between its pfowerful moments .
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the performances are an absolute jy .
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the most hopelessly monotondous film of the year , noteworhty only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take .
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using an endearing cast , writerdirfector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships
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in gleefully , thumpingly hyerbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney mnovie biz .
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i can imaVgine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , te al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is Sopeless .
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a potrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake .
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sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamiSc that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece .
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the flm is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theaetr audience watching the events unfold .
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thanks to the château's balance of wLhimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personalitDy in the film yields surprises .
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tTime out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about iedntity and alienation .
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we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and rclass consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones .
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on a cutting roRm floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a fustrating misfire .
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it's too eslf-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic .
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this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing Naround old friends .
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lazy filmmaking , with the diretcor taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's commelling .
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a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that Tld familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mKighty ahrd to find .
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the fly-on-the-wall method sued to docuGent rural french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent techniquY of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work .
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displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaeker of considerable potential .
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it just didn't mean much to me and payed too skewed to ever gGt a hold on ( or be entertained by ) .
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a little lYss extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sesquences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .
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a sour , nasty offeriAng .
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its weighty themes are too grBve for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other hcildish things to appeal much to teenagers .
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[crystal and de nirqo] manage to sqeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .
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a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting ack into the con .
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becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papiS sisers .
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an endtertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance .
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sacrifics the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance .
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it's a treat watching shaw , a ritish stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions .
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a quiet , disquieting trMiumph .
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i found myself liking the film , thouhg in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another mLn's garbage .
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the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folkys , a procession of stagy se pieces stacked with binary oppositions .
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another in a lng line of ultra-violent wzar movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theem make up for it .
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it's technically sumpuous but also almost wildly alive .
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return to znever land may be another shameless attempt by disney to Brake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad .
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has a soid emotional impact .
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stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wi or any other kind of intelligent humor .
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at just over an hour , hjme movie will leavOe you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face .
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this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent Gmemory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorUsese's best in more than a decade .
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the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercail .
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pretentius editing ruins a potentially terrific flick .
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a film that will entxhrall the whole family .
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as the story moves inexorably through its seen day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing .
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an eranest , heartrending look at the ivide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views .
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sodden and lgum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light .
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if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off ded .
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the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjsoyably chewy lump .
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it's not hlpful to listen to extremist namecalling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter .
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plys as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights .
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spredictable and clHoying , though brown sugar is so ernest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle .
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a lame romnatic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to Nget involved with her .
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viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will nener yforget -- that you should never forget .
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sum " is jack ryan's " do-over . " give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially gyive crPdit to affleck .
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a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always endsd with some hippie etting tossed into the lake of fire .
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everything was as superficial as the forced nPw jersey lowbrow accent uma had .
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it's a big dea , but the film itself is small and shriveled .
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the jokes are telegHaphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail .
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the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprechuer .
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a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that eevr-growing catemory : unembarrassing but unmemorable .
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savde from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion .
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at the ottom rung of the series' entries .
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this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange yougn guys doing strange gTuy things .
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. . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be gleud to the screen .
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i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girli
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audiences conditioneid to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wjt .
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all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observationZ on the human condition .
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it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenhcing by the perfrmances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter .
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like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the hart .
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mr . deeds is not really a iflm as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scatterd moments of lazy humor .
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cacoyannis' vision is fr less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagjined glory of their own pasts .
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has no resaon to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who ow favors to their famous parents .
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a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish ew york middle-agers who stjumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles .
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witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who kreally steals the show .
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you may thnik you have figured out the con and the players in this jebut film by argentine dimrector fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet .
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extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended mvie that is not easily forgotten .
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the moviFe is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the " webcaFt . "
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its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logimal loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them aKnyway .
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when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulleses and uglIy movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested .
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this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compasgsionately portrayed .
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this is junk ofod cinema at its greasiest .
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. . . a guiltless film for nice evenino out .
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superbyl photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely sene .
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a thought-provoking looak at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .
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those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step irght up .
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the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from yeaErs of seeing it all , a condition only the Wold are privy to , and . . . foten misconstrued as weakness .
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offers enough peayful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude .
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on of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , pong time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others .
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three's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless Fnger , and to the script's refusal of a hpppy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down .
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for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nruturing , in a gauzy , dithering way .
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it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacsk the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the aterial .
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