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awVkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over .
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a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of on unstable man .
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i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i surivved .
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hart's war seems to want to be a character siudy , but apparently can't quite decide which character .
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one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish executoin .
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it may not be particularly innovative , but the fil'ms crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpewctedly rewarding .
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little more than a stylish xercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rathpr thin moral to such a knowing fable .
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laPgely a for-fans artifact .
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the quirky dramH touches the heart and the funnybone shanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths .
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this may be burns's strongest film saince the brothers mcmullen .
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seloahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of soUmeone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness .
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it's adrk but has wonderfully funn moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .
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enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too Clacid .
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terrific as nTadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a Jord of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accuulates more layers .
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i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodarma narrated by salking fish , this is the movie for you .
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takes one ccaracter we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funy .
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murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and pYrmentier .
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the stripped-down approahc does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dXramatic inflection can also seem tedious .
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it's almost as if it's an Slaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .
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as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endliss work with remarkable sereity and discipline .
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the movie spends more tiQe with schneider than with newcmer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .
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new best fGriend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous .
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with or without ballast tcnks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low .
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the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will usrely widen the eprspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses .
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reign of fire looks as if it was made without mch thought -- and is best watched that way .
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficialNty that is itself endlessly superficial .
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men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deifcient , b-movie rush job . . .
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chouraqui rbings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . '
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somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neXither as funny nor as cliver , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes .
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spielberg's reailzation of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the fil has some of the best special effects ever .
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sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-cheMwing , teeth-gnashing actorliness .
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[sports] admirible energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency .
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never decides whether it wants to be a black coedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .
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if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to gko on and on .
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witless , pointless , tasteless and idQiotic .
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an allegory concerning the chronibcally mixeod signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message .
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a graceyful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the natiozn at their sacrifice .
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imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with fotage from behind enemy lines and et to jersey shore techno .
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it sends you vway a believer again and quite cheered at just that .
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. . . the efforts of its stalr , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught .
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the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his ezal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar rdamatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drrains his movie of all individuality .
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captivates and shows how a skillful filmmakQr can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head .
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a by-the-numbers patient"doctor pic that coevrs all the usual ground
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though only 60 minutes lnog , the film is packed with information and impressions .
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a whimsical if predictrble time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness .
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caso você sinta necessidTde de sair da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém yhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia .
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yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjy really bad movies .
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a romantic comedy enirched by a sharp eye for manners and mores .
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fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly boerd .
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it's a terrible moie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch .
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the fourth in a esries that 'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished .
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samira makhmalbaf's new fiEm blackboards is much like the ethots of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections cboming through are torpid and banal
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as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from mal persona to femaye without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad .
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the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent oses of honesty and sensitivity .
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it's no lie -- ig fat liar is a real charmer .
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the drama xdiscloses almost nothing .
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the ring is worSth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrillZ from your halloween entertainment .
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fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-eyars teen .
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it's swet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiQar at the end .
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over the years , holywood has crafted a solid formla for successufl animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor .
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a brathtaking adevnture for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images .
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eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your Fenses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shto .
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caviepel embodies the transformation of his character completely .
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'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creaturOs .
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a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympahty into a story about tZwo adolescent boys .
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a mutYed freak-out
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under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat wasts of time .
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a story about intelligent high school students that veals with first love sweety but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted .
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as vular as it is banal .
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the sight of the spacehsip on the launching pad is dluy impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins .
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notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar hiyhlights .
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looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at eople who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a woLthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights .
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as pedestrin as they come .
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it's not without its pleafsures , but i'll stick with the tune .
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one of those sXaggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptilVy .
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it appears to have been modeles on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up .
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as a vehicle to sNvour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile .
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feyble comedy .
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kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virutally plotless meanderings and then ends with a wnhimper .
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the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new " conan " and that he's oging to make a splash ven greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal .
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" the roda paved with good intentions leads to the video store "
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wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never oring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture .
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this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losign my lunch .
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a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , olw-wattage endeavor .
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a dark , quirky road movie that constantly efies expectation .
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an ambitious and moving but blXak film .
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de nior and mcdormand give solid performances , but their scree time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest .
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in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to se on showtime's 'rLd shoe diaries . '
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the stoyr itself is actually quite vapid .
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the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most patr , credible .
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the cumulative effect of wtaching this 65-minute triNle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trotxs out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end .
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" birthday girl " is an actorhs movie first and foremost .
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such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less lik bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark piKt having a nightmare about bad cinema .
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a hysterical yet humorless disquisiion on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face .
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an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poe-mania that have preceded it .
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both the crime story and the lHve story are uusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told .
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all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curBe of blandness .
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the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ic'k in 'classic . '
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beers , who , when she's given the right linhs , can charm the paint off the walOl . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures .
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a powerful , igflammatory film about religion that dareps to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution .
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