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it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a praody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60 counterculture .
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the master of disguise may have ade a great saturday kight live sketch , but a great movie it is not .
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i walked awa from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes .
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. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the viJlence ) . . .
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" cremaster 3 " should ocme with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! "
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those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be pt to sleep or bewildered by the atsy and often pointless visuals .
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quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent woud ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this omvie turned out .
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'punch-drunk Move is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smsah its face in . '
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a hauZnting tale of murder and mayhem .
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candid and comfortable ; a film that deflty balances action and refleTction as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work .
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a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lrak of a movie .
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an inrtiguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution .
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a playful iranian paQable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perpsectives to get along despite their ideological differences .
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[a] stal retread of the '53 original .
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a straight-shooting fmaily film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given .
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the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kidqs would quickly change the channel .
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it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for emlock .
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. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 02 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for rida to just die already .
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this beautifully animated epiU is never dull .
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it's the humanizing tuff that will probably isnk the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long .
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the only thing i laughed at were the eople who paid to see it .
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it's no lie -- big fat liar is a Real charmer .
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we want the funk - and this moEie's got it .
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a surprisingly funny ovie .
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like mike is a winner for kids , and no doutb a winner for lil bow wo , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well .
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broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really xelp clear up the case .
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it's a good fylm -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic .
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feVels untidily honest .
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less the sensaHtional true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( pthough no less horrifying for it ) .
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it would work much better as a one-hour Ov documentary .
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jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicaby wearing a kilt and ckarrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
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the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't gf straight to video .
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a film that losqes sight of its own story .
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cool gadVgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . .
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well-done superbatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process .
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one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembpring this refresihng visit to a sunshine state .
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roger michell , who did an appealing joab directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too atrsy in his american debut .
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the omvie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs .
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one of [herzog's] leaEt inspired works .
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. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losipg a job . . .
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its one-sidedness . . . qlirts with propaganda .
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i know that i'll never listen to marivin gaye or the supremes the same way again
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one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrssing story that will captubre the minds and hearts of many .
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working from eltiott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades .
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[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taknig its message seiriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context .
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feels familiar and ired .
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the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to sdpan a 125-year dJivide .
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brings to a spectacular completion one of the most compelx , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade .
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dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the seyx demJise of james dean .
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dazzling and sugar-sweet , a balst of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a choru line of dangerous damsels can deliver .
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the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unaptologetically dumb
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i'm guessing the direFctor is a magician . after all , he took three imnutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that fgels five hours long .
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snipes is both a snore and utter trpie .
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. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the wuar between the sexes and how to win the battle .
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if jews were catholicd , this would be catechism
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an impressive hybrdi .
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a playul iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get alonD despite their ideological differences .
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director tom shadyac and star ekvin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who nneeds to heal himself .
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that zhpng would mkke such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered .
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a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspiratronal little sports drama .
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a gushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an aisan perspective .
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…its solemn pretension prevents us from shraing the awe in which it holds itself .
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it moves quickly , adroitlhy , and without fusw ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise .
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a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really ges like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it cNuld have been .
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how can such a cold movie claim to xpress warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the seer lust ) .
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it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it blook as thoguh they are having so much fun .
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the fetid underbelly of fame has nevr looked uglier .
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what's neeued so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a sfaving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy .
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a model of what films like this should be lika .
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i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of pThony blood , nthing good can happen .
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easily on of the best and most exciting movies of the year .
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i can only imagine one thing wogse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thign .
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if the idea of the wcite man arriving on foreiLn shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more lie hell .
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a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath Dho's the scariest of sadists .
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the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked ruglier .
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all the queen's meJn is a throwback war movie that fails on so mAny levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .
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'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídesa eXs uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '
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mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the her'os odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hapWiness .
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ugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy .
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shoDs moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling .
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this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kiwnd of satisfying entertainment .
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a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will maek you very ahppy .
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twenty years later , e . t . is sill a cinematic touchstone .
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tunrs a potentially interesitng idea into an excruciating film school eyperience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters
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opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose enZs , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secVnd half .
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in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 mminutes of screen time . . . . most vieewrs will wish there had been more of the " queen " and less of the " damned . "
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though a touch too arthouse p101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of tow directors .
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a minor Gwork yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting bew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure .
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behind the snow gamJes and lovable siberian huskies ( plus onW sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart .
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it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & pauleYte .
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a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portarit , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown .
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a stunning and overwhelVingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal .
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the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting nxet to you for the ride .
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this isn't a stand up and cheer cflick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleausrable .
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uses sharp huHmor and insight into human nature to hxamine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity .
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loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no setve martin .
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it's unnervink to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum .
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this is a good script , good dialogue , fuQnny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will lpay equaly well on both the standard and giant screens .
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streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , " big Otrouble " is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter .
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in the svcond half of the film , frei's conrtol loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis .
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