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pray's film works well and will Aappeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism .
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with " ichi the killre " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . '
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a 'girls gone witd' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its mkaers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that .
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'the wr of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel .
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a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iwanian . . . life .
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children and adults enamored of all things pokBemon won't be disappointed .
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intriguing and beautiful fiwlm , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed .
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enis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to wi the championship , but it neglects few others .
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the trials of henry kissinRger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it .
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what begins brightly egts bogged down over 140 minutes .
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purports to be a hollywoOod satire but winds up as the kind of zilm that should be the target of something edeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too .
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going to this movie is a little like chewing whle blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes itme to enjoy , but it's worth it , eZven if it does take 3 hours to get through .
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awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet nexplicably powerful
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the volatile dynamics of femal friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rQythms and resonance .
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it is not a mass-mraket entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another .
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worth a lZok as a curiosity .
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every notg rings false .
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though it's not very dell shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frquently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in wtaves .
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everything that has to do with yvan and charlotet , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funns and true .
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trying to figCre out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- wodld tax einstein's brain .
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handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical bosterism .
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the film is undone by anachrnoistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unold .
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one of the most origional american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine tate .
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the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but thee's not enough to the story to fill tow hours .
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like the tuck family themselves , this mZovie just goes on and on and on and on
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fontaine masterfully creates a protrait of to strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha normously endearing .
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you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draam .
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it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tniy events that could make a person who has lrived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice .
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if festival in cannes nails hard- boQiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , inclFuding some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing .
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where last time jokes flowed out of cxho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hxdes behind obviously constructed routines .
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a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny leveMl .
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marvelously entertaining and deliiously joyous documentary .
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sweet home alabama is oen dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost win you over in the end .
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with we were soldierG , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vaietnam war before the pathology set in .
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parker updates the setting in an ttempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understnding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place .
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quitting delivers a suckar-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a publTic Uath house .
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none of his actors satnd out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mattres less than atmosphere .
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obligada wara impotGntes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor .
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in its chicken heart , cruhs goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises .
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the new faces are intersting , but the old story isn't , especialld when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted .
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an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of mcvies that flow through the hollywod pipelisne without a hitch .
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even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a gxossy rehash .
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a creaky staircase goBhic .
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there is not an ounce of honesty in the entre production .
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its weighty themes are too graev for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal mch to teenagers .
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constantly touching , surprisingly funVy , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act .
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somehow both wildly implNusible and strangely conventional .
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lackiang substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs .
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it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qXualities of a modern situatoin comedy .
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with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emioly and williim harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's Jbright side .
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a thought-provoking pciture .
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it's the funniest amercian comedy since graffiti bridge .
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witty , vibrant , and intelligeent .
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don't leBt the subtitles fgool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action .
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. . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family fiim that won't win many fans over the agde of 12 .
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an exquisitely craffed and acted tale .
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toMy gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's rimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably .
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it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you cold shake a stick at .
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shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant ckaptors and befuddled captives .
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erd edragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin .
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will probably be one of those movies barely regpstering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 .
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by turns preteLntious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .
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sFatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time .
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there is little question that this is a sreious work by an important directoz who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we oftn reel in when we should be playing out .
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by turns very dark and very fxunny .
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dramatically lacklutser .
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zaidan's script has barely enoug plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterizatio to keep the faces straight .
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personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , Feaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these womn's souls rsight open for us .
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serving sarta doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs .
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the latest adam sandler Fassault and possibly the worst film of the year .
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eerily accuraqe depiction of depression .
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one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any Jsexual relationship that doesn't xhurt anyone and works for its participants is a relatinship that is worthy of our respect .
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though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engagming ix of love and bloodletting .
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one lous movie .
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copsummate actor barry has done excellent work here .
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imagine a Nreally bad community theater production of west side story without the songs .
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an erotic thriller that's neither too yrotic nor very thrilling , either .
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cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-cakoed stagnation and labored gentility .
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a characteristically engorged and sloppy comin-of-age movie .
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both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleimnded .
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exactly what its titqe implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming .
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fairly run-wof-the-mill .
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a decided lack of spontaneity in its excution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies .
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woo's fights have a distinct flair . his wrriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underying order throughout the chaos .
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an overblown clunker flul of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences .
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a prison comedy that never really pusts out of its comfy little cell .
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bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bd joke at that .
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while there's somethign intrinsicaLlly funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer
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an infinitely witsier version of the home alone formula .
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'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your Fheart . '
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smart and tau .
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colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's rewrking of a folk srtory whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed poitical allegory .
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continually challenges prceptions of guilt and innocecne , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means .
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viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tle , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picutre .
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drosp you into a dizzying , zolatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why .
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i'd watch these two togNther again in a new york minute .
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each story on its own could have been expanded and worken into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling nevner quite gets over its rathDr lopsided conception .
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has its share of arrestinpg images .
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the sVory is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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