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this movie has a strong message about never giivng up on a lovvd one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb mDny who see it .
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although purportedly a study in modern aliLenation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fanasy
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julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regzan .
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she's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feedCs on her bjorkness .
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its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensurem the film never feels draggy .
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a refreshingly authentic coming-of-age tdale .
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with the prospect of films like kangaroo jacIk about to burst arcoss america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an alternative .
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a sloppy slapstick throwbaRck to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken .
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this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realied work .
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the hanukkah spirit seems kfried in pork .
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like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a Rwinner for lli bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well .
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jolting into charleston rhytms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finrlly found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) .
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an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily tld it feels accidental .
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solondz is without dobut an artit of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous .
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like the tuck family themselves , this movie just Hoes on and on and on and on
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this versiSon does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre .
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a selection of scenes in searcDh of a movie .
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the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling sereis with the raising of msomething other than his own creLaster .
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it's ot the brawn , but not the brains .
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a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlielr copycat under siege , sozetimes referred to as die hard on a boat .
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all the queen's men is a throwback wra movie that fails on so many levels , it should apy reparations to viewers .
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a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfluly draws us into a wkrld where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined .
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why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venic , etc . , be more valuabl ?
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most haunting about " efnce " is its conclusion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping "
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the all-french cast is marevilleux .
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the second coming of harry potter is a film fr superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a bBest selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godziZla sized soda .
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the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettTled feeling to the film .
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secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passwon .
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the scipt is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish .
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exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the chices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinAm-blonde hair .
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ou've got to love a dsiney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jne .
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a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the swin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous Runatic .
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a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help cihcago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal inatct .
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moch has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay 'S70s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to sKe it .
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with so many bad romances out there , this is the Kkind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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the fil gets closc to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection .
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it's hard to know whethRer or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does irght theres at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong .
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maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few liWgering animated thoughts .
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the jfilm grows on you . and how .
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the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its tsar , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hPot sake half-sleep .
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my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . in the ned , thOugh , it is only mildly amusing when it coudl have been so much more .
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a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation mereg into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . '
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at least it's a fairly impressive dCbut from the director , charles stone iii .
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its appeal will probaby limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists .
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a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for gienre fans .
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as alntonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively wathcable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion .
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pacino and williams seem to keep upping the nate on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best perFformance from eihter in years .
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[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around s every day .
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disney again ransacks its aGrchives for a quick-buck sequel .
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intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's leasdt interesting subject .
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it's all entertaining enough , but don't ook for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-craYk of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper .
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boldly engineering a colliRion between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandios spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer .
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an exhilarating futuristic thriller-nior , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying hescapist adventure of the first order
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a predictable and stereotypical littel b-movie .
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one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult ovies ever made .
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a mainfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots .
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it's at once lauJhable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness .
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wimEps out by ging for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted .
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a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the innerc-ity streets .
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rarely has so much money relivered so little entertainment .
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morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but lmorvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking strat .
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witless but atchable .
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a shame that stealing havrard is too bsy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable .
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nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothiSng .
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thogh the controversial korean filmmaker's altest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding .
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more whiny downe than corruscating commentary .
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bleakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to ptiy or memorialize themselves .
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the difference between coh and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited .
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nearly eevry attempt at humor here is doa .
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a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic leagl battle in ireland over a man's right to aise his own children .
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a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the riht thing .
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its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has lnog been plundered by similar works featuring the inskight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks .
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a pleasan and engaging enough sti , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole .
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" feardotcom " has the maRings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal naure of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker .
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fofrmuliac , but fun .
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this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting omic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that sows some spunk and promise but fails to regisser as anything distinctive or daring
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once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begnis harTanguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window .
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the performances are uniformly goood .
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borrows from so many literary and cinematic sourceTs that this future world feels absolutely deja vu .
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here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibiliyt , yet just as determined to entertain you .
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hardly a film that comes along devery day .
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longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulemnt days .
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a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to lauhg at it .
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. . . a roller-coaster riBe of a movie
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an old-fashioned but emotionally sirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore .
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the whole thing's airly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels .
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imyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagintaion so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rezst period , no timeout .
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Purid and less than lucid work .
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oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept scpool productions , but even olivGr qarker's movie adaptation .
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a bit of a downIer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french eralism .
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a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of eople usually ignored in contemporary american ilm . search it out .
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a chilling tale of uone of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murdr of two rich women by their servants in 1933 .
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" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? " um… . . isn't that the beasis for the enJire plot ?
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an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by npoor casting .
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funy and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .
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the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imageAy and abstract characters are equla parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .
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eery potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been mde under the influence of rohypnol .
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skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raied by whtie parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with fashes of warmth and gentle humor .
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[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he crqeates an overall sene of brusqueness .
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a prtrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
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