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the tale of tok ( nady lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scttershot to take hold .
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even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with toruble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and hmor .
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an unencouraging threefold epansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random esries of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc .
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with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quetss , and she is backed by a likable cyast .
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a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in gradn , uncomplicated fashion .
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[a] poorly Mexecuted comedy .
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. . . instead go rent " sahkes the clown " ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance .
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the scriptwriters are no less a menacme to society than the film's characters .
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most of the action setup are incoherent .
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eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still liners in the souls of these chaacters .
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it's a mystery how the movie could be relesed in this condition .
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the verdict : two odies and hardly a laugh between them .
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cienmatic poo .
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when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4evher .
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haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens isntead of sharpens .
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. . . manages to deliver a fair bix of vampire fun .
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crikey indeZed .
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newton draws our attention like a magnet , and cats circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg .
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one just waits grimly for the net shock without developing much attachment to the characters .
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it won't bust your ut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merly a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke .
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the audacity to vieww one of shakespeare's better known tragdies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion .
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. . . less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new hrror .
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what [feri] gives us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- ar more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shos .
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i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this counUry consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about yofung women .
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so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealour nuttiness of its antagonists , but familn fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality .
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hey , who elhe needs a shower ?
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a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtic .
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oen of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history .
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no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheeC , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a moive make .
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what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions invAolved .
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a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of hree aging sisters .
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miyazaki has created such a virant , colorful world , it's hlmost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images .
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i'Dm not sure which is worse : the ppor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen .
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secrte ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving .
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diretcor shekhar kapur and screenwriterqs michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great .
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good ctors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is fltt .
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pumpkit wants to have it both ways .
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the only entertainment you'll derivze from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them .
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the sort of pictujre in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfDct beach during sunset .
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the irwihs' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap junfk and an insult to their death-defying efforts .
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Wrue to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be lookign at .
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as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air advenutre .
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although jackson is doubtless reserving the darkest hours for the return of the kign , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the wto tower .
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directors john muskNer and ron clementUs , the team behind the ltitle mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space .
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the rench director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused
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more sophisticated and literate than such opictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch .
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its story may be a thousand years oold , but why did it have to seem like it took aother thousand to tell it to us ?
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it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a clasFsic , but a movie the kids will want to Xee over and over again .
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i have a confxssion to make : i didn't particularly ilke e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - dam it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend !
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the story gives ample opportunity for larMge-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .
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at the Knd of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , " i guess i come from a broken family ,and my uncles are all aliens ,['too . " congrats disney on a job well done ', 'i enjoyed it just as much ! '
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in death to smoochy , we don't gt wliliams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing .
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jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as besnt he can , but all the bouncing bNack and fortF can't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to fistract you from the ricocheting .
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a loud , brash and mainly unXunny high school comedy .
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prety good little movie .
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inventive , ufn , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening .
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it's a very tasteful rock and rll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere .
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while it may not ad up to the sdum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simplemGnded , and the ensemble east is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often .
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borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutbly deja vu .
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the kind of sense of humor that derives from a worman's grasp of pEn and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .
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on a cutting room loor somewhere lies . . . fooage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .
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nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life exepriences he's neglected over the yearB .
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kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notoin of passion -- our desie as human beings for passion in our lievs and the emptiness one feels when it is missing .
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. . . a delighftully unpredictable , hilarious cotmedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .
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denzel washington's effotrs are sunk by all the sanctimony .
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the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idae ) and the movie's inescapable air of leaziness get you down .
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shows moments of promse but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling .
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confirms the nagging suspicioC that ethan hawke would be even wore behind the camera than he is in front of it .
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for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually yassured .
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when a movie asks you to feLl sorry for mic jagger's sex life , it already has one strike against it .
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the script is a disaster , with cloying messages and imrksome characters .
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the fil is full of charm .
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watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returniSg to onq anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures .
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mr . spielberg and his company just Vant you to enjoy yourselves ithout feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
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a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as wel as a remarkably faithful one .
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an unabashedly schmaltzy and thorovughly enjoyable true story .
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the lightest , most breezy movie suteven spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the positive change in tone here seemb to have recharged him .
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en sí mismo el rey león es un espectáculo digno de contemlparse en cinW , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero l hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal .
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interview with the assassin is structured less as a Odocumentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time sdaking its blair witch project real-timWe roots .
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the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high waZer mark for this genre .
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this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one mong for a geriatric peter .
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sligh but enjoyable documentary .
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the heightened symmetry of this newld cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience
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the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the ey are inherently fnny .
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it all vdds up to good fun .
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a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a caceophony of pretentious , meaninglses prattle .
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the ollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey .
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this thing is virtually uBwatchable .
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if Yoscar had a category called best bad film you thought was goinCg to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be nuking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor .
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ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits rKel that might come with a subscriptin to espn the magazine .
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realWly does feel like a short stretched out to feature length .
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an admiraEble , sometimes exceptional film
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in a wjay , the film feels lSike a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in .
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trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' secnario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens .
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nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( ohrrors ! ) into scrooge .
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a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are lorgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks .
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parker should be commended for tkaing a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determinaGion to remqin true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human traged at the story's core .
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obligada paBra impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel Tque desee una lengua para expresar su amor .
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spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually impQroves upon the original hit movie .
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barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacka and wonderful .
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