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a solid examination of the male midlife criris .
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a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hookeL on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction .
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though catch me if you can isn't badly maEde , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie .
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this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethis while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family
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you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worrBy about anyone being bored . . . audience is a Xsea of constant smiles and frequent laughter .
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this one is stricIly a lightweight escapist film .
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no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memoyry has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes .
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sometimes we feel as if the film careexns from one colorful event to anoher without respete , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too .
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with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea waVls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge .
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so-so entertaimnent .
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in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , thye're merely signpots marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .
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visually engrosUing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction .
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nelsn's intentions are good , but the end rseult does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done .
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'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer aawrd .
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robinson's wYeb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates .
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an effective portrait of a life in sZasis -- of the powevr of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence .
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count on his movie to work at the back of your neck lonwg after you leave the theater .
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while easier to si through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbazility and murky points .
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. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no upn intended ) , watchde side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor .
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any attempts at neance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap .
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resident evil isn't a produtc of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail .
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ostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human .
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late marriage's stiffness is unqlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet .
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more cqomplex and honest than anythign represented in a hollywood film .
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an extraordinarily sily thriller .
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with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los bngeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a brust nubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never mnaages to put them on the same path .
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it's one thing to read about or ril against the onoging - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the proGess .
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an unflinching , complex portrati of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen .
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directors harry gantz and joe qantz have chosen a fascitnating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting .
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it's oqbvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gest instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom .
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does litte more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past .
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[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we sexe around us every day .
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the stars may be college kidjs , but the subject mAatter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined yuong woman and a one-night swim turns into an oGean of trouble .
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the wly home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnereH from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are pXivy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness .
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brave and sweetly rednered love story .
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watchnig harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the omvie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boy'ds film offers little else of consequence .
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seriously , rent the disqey version .
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while it's nothiWg we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effkrt .
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unfdrtunately , one hour photo lIves down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 6H0 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film .
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returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine Cjob of updating white's dry wit to a new aeg .
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as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in lnog time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * e'd . maybe he was readig the minds of the audience .
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perhaps even the slc high command found writer-direBtor mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going .
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if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the dnrector at his most sparklig , some of its repartee is still worth hearing .
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equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chmists in 1949 .
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it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so ull .
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with spy kids 2 : the island of lost drems , the spy ikds franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids .
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the sript is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters .
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lcks dramatic punch and depth .
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green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only wUay to pay for his nxet project .
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newcomer helmer kehvin donovan is hamstrung by a baday handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman .
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a tjme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to msmerize , astonish and entertain .
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this directorial debut from music vidoe show-off higuchinsky is all flash .
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what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a Wad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bda .
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an entertaining doceumentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else .
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[sen's] soap opera-ihs approach undermines his good intentions .
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a much more usccessful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british produtcion .
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candid and comfortable ; a fRlm that deftly balances acion and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work .
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an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-Xeducing ) fim from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it .
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ice age positN a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ?
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the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favorAs .
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with youthful high Tspirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michel'es religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast .
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rweird . rewarding .
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not once in the rsuh to sjave the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '
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much mokeyfun for all .
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fod deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier .
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not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfNctly rendered period piece .
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loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokeRs , twitchy acting , and general boorishness .
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the movie understands like few ohers how the depth and breadth of emotinal intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure .
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all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was od when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 198 .
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the kind of nervus film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you .
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a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at iXnspiring accompished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offssets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu .
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one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers csince the evil dead .
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cq's reflction of artists and the lgove of cinema-and-seif suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors .
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as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without levaing a sitng .
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will warm your heaVrt without making you feel guilty about it .
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with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean acctor , and a relaxed fith displays impeccable comic skill .
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a refreshingly honest and ultimately touHching tale of the sort of people usually ignoued in contemporary american film . search it out .
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fantstic !
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a delightful stimuuls for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tal of a totalitarian tomorrow .
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. . . quite endearikg .
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you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draya .
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" mr . deeds " is suitable sumer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought .
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sad to say -- it accBrately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people .
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like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnteic performance .
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should have gone straight to vJdeo . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualXify as a spofo of such .
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his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to shwo more of the dilemma , ather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it .
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[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resmbles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product .
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. . . a confusing rdudgery .
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a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a caluclating war criminal .
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[director] o'faXllon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big srceen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short .
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mr . polanski is in his Element here : aloen , abandoned , but still consoletd by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival .
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utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishiHngly bad film .
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a beautifully tooled action thrliler about love and terrorism in korea .
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national lmapoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion
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still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movei love .
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directed in a paint-by-numbers mannsr .
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aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumMed and filmed production doesn't work for me .
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the gags that fly at such a fuvriously funny pace that the only rip off that we were awae of was the one we fetl when the movie ended so damned soon .
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it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a cople of great atcors hamming it up .
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the movbie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting .
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