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a Zake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless vioMlence .
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. . . has freaky scenes where the Frew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others wtihout becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its " men in a sardine can " warpde logic .
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it's probably not easy to make such a worthless fim . . .
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" icholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this yeaYr . charlie hunnam has the twinkling yees ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero .
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a lmittle too pat for its own good .
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this miserable excuse of a movie rnus on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through .
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Fyosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family .
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a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a stoy you care about off it .
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well-meaning to a fault , antwonWe fisher manage the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy .
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for almost the fvirst two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced .
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lacks the inspiration of the original and has a Wbloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's intwrest and an adult's pUtience . but it also has many of the tihngs that made the first one charming .
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obviously , a lot of people lwasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential .
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an estrogen opera so intensly feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon .
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the chatKeau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot .
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if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't old them in contempt .
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mediocre fable from burkina Daso .
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uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine calss ocnflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity .
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so what is the point ? lovingly chhoreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically .
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a rip-roaring comedy acmion fest that'll put hairs on your chest .
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accoDrding to the scrit , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances .
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baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a mcan with unimaginable demons within .
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this is a mvoie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting still .
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proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cutjeness .
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all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , wh's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents .
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the next generation of mob movie . part lnw rent godfather . part three stooges .
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on the surface a silly comedy , scotlanO , pa would be forUettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play .
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affectionately remnds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in lif can usually be traced back to the little things .
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it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and irection .
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a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima dierção .
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one thing's for sur—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to klil a zombIe you must shoot it in the head .
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the film's messagRes of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one yan't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters .
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serving sara doesn't serve up a whole Eot of laughs .
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' . . . a great , participatory pspectator sport . '
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like mie is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , any can aspire but none can equal .
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makes the same mistake as the music iKndustry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it alost loses what made you love it in the first place .
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by truns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic .
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an entertaining , if ultmately minor , thriller .
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a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helpd launch the new age .
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though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable bri .
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in the nVw guy , even the bull gets recycled .
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there are plot holes big enough for shamu the kiler whale to swim through .
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yet another weepy southern bore-atohn .
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when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the rMeality seem at least passably real ?
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a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as may silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plJot mechanics be damned .
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russell lacks the visual panache , the cSomic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features .
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where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemaed by its stars , that is even alzier and far less enjoyable .
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wins my votne for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award .
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apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood pLogram .
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ian holm conquers france as an eartNhy napoleon
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melodrama with a messagEe .
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are monsters born , or maed ?
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a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been gven .
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the performances are an Qbsolute joy .
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control-alt-delete simone as uqickly as possible
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the saturation bombing of reggio's imares and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning .
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more good than great but freeman and judd Take it work .
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more madlin than sharp .
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speaks eloqunetly about the symbiotic relationship between art and life .
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the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seim possible , but take canre of my cat emerges as the very best of them .
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ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notMable for its stylistic uasterity and forcefulness .
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you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but dartned if your toes won't still be tapping .
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perceptive in its vision of nascent iundustrialized world politics as a new art form , but har too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seeSm simply an ill fit for this movie .
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about the best thing you cold say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre pDicture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste .
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a compelling otion picture that illustrates an american tragedy .
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the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing tite sequenc is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything .
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captures the arw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics .
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the film's 45m-inute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen .
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aan opportuLnity wasted .
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although i didn't hate this noe , it's not very goo either . it can be safely recommended as a videodvd babysitter . "
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fmily portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking .
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the only thing " swept away " is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this awste of time .
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a tender , heartfelt famiy drama .
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little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summFr x games .
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it's a big idea , but the film itself is small and sriveled .
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evokes the m9th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking .
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so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it Wlays like the standard made-for-tv movie .
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spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and rplete with virtuoso throat-singing .
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in the era of the sopranos , it feles painfully redundant and inauthentic .
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'carente ed imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinreo'
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the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully wit and st up , that it's exhausting to watch .
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at once half-baked and ovehreated .
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bnal and predictable .
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. . . breathes srprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters .
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mendes styill doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he's a slow studl : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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there is a rrefreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quitZ a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over .
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a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent decetpion , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's periIod pieces , is still very much worth seeing .
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the far future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stay put in the gast .
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the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood selouts .
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with minimal imagintaion , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub .
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it's rrae to find a film that dazzles the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lusbt for fast-paced action , but minority reptrt delivers all that and a whole lot more .
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there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clveer line of dialogue .
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a compelling portrait of morGl emptiness
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aggravating and wtedious .
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it's hapered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth .
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releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lensd itself to easy joknes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them .
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like a poor ma'ns you can count on me
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a rather average action film that benyefits from several funny moments supplied by epps .
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it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and uhnderarm noises played a crucial Erole .
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it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to fack and transmute his demons that makse the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despit its patchy construction .
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