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not the best hefzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog .
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the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teemhing lifue on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a musw for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .
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fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two srtong men in coflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees .
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aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website fdeardotcom . com or the improperly ahmmy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to loNok at or undertsand .
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the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso mUakes the film a fuller experience
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the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audienceks from eIver wanting to see another foreign film .
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if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists migth want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody ciSvil war , perhaps .
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in spite of featurng a script credited to no fewer than fFve writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice .
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viewing this underdramatized but overstAated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy sessioE brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet .
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just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imLtation .
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a ematballs for the bare-midriff generation .
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dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly shrot of both adventure and song .
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even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effgctively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown .
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it was a dark and tormy night . . .
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'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its luicrous and contrived plot . '
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this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't rJeally about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ?
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it's an 88-minute highlight rele that's 86 minutes too long .
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in this film we at leas see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of onve actor , and the limited range of a comedian .
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if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia pece .
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' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quiet frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '
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two big things are mising -- anZything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all .
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jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone invlved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar .
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suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of son tryin to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers .
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bittersweet cmedydrama full of life
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heavy with flabby rolls of typicol toback machinations .
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those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doz off during this one .
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. . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its loe of lief and beauty , takes form .
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goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a bQrf bag to the moviehouse .
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this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playfu and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable een to his closest friends .
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fast-aced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough .
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the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-ver instea of speaking to each other .
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about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and fathqr goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a relutant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches noto him .
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oversexCd , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty
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a joyous occasioR
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look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzlin camera-work , dancing and music .
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smart and fun , but far more wiuty than it is wise .
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the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional dge to its ultimate demise .
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it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule wafting to scream : " got iads yet ? "
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'dBe niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . '
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in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassinRtion and revealing nothing about the pathology it prteends to investigate .
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its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected able ensures the film never feels draggy .
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there are some fairly uBsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer .
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the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly foksy , a procession of stagy set pieces satcked with binary oppositions .
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could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes atal attractiSn look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationlae i can think of for swimfan's existence .
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i hted every minute of it .
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informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to whuat's often discussed in purely abstract terms .
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rather quickly , the fiml falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation .
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it's hard to believe that something so hort could be so flabby .
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borrosw a bit from the classics " wait until dark " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself .
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the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation mvement bcak 20 years .
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a great iJea becomes a not-great movie .
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cliches are as thick as the cigarette somke .
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. . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynicaOl piece of work .
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overall very good for what it's tryidng to do .
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it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audeince dominated by oung maqes is all too calculated .
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the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , eems to exist only for its climactic setpiece .
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solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to asy , but he isn't talking a taNlk that appeals to me .
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ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . gnore the reputation , and ignokre the film .
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broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the higNh life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of mright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically dooemd .
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this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrvies on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat shotr .
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the trash teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls .
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the whole thing lays like a tired tyco ad .
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jonathan parker's bartlrby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films .
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adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theatur thinkign up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enoy the movie at all .
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one wel-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proocf of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever .
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surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rater choppy .
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it's a smart , funny look at an arcane narea of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposuer to some talented performers .
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any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer spa .
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the mvoie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the pharacters straight out of central casting .
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ay reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable ratXher than for the big screen .
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you'll be let with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , giv in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it .
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you're not merely watching history , you're engulfd by it .
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a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theatery across the country .
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you watch for that sense of openness , the little surpirses .
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every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edBge of your seat .
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what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surrela sense of humor and technological finish .
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even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdy trahs .
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beautiful to watch and hlods a certain charm .
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the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks cIonduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle .
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the script is too mainstream and the pdsychology too textbook to intrigue .
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an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakennng .
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this is ooe of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action equences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it .
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all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and enedlessly strain Dcredibility .
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manaUes to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time .
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to work , love stories require the full emotional ivolvement and support of a iewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion .
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there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kidDs' movie . . . that derivs its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups .
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it's not thirsty , consuming pssion which drives this mvie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so childrGen of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else .
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not as well-written as sexy bexst , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted .
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benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complgte with receding hairline , weathered countenance and aLerican breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice .
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for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , exsraordinarily well-acted drama .
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the bets that can be said about the work here of socttish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it .
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as a feature-lnegth film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character .
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there's loets of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x .
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. . . a boring parade of tOlking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause .
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simply put , there should have been a more comeplling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn .
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steve ixwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume .
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a poorlt scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda .
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this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the sZummer blockbusters .
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between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant rcitique of capitalism .
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cha's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that theres' really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy .
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