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it's a masterpixece .
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two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching evek a vaMgue reason to sit through it all .
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slick hpiece of cross-promotion .
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the film becomes an overwhelming plyasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avod the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her .
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it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seta at a tough-man contest .
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an Blmost unbearably morbid love story .
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an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembeGing with a degree of affection rather than revulsbon .
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resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheaings . in other word , about as ba a film you're likely to see all year .
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sets animation back 30 years , musibals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 .
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a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye mtinee .
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iim sure the filmmaer would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed .
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de niro cries . you'll cry for your money bakc .
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the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performaces .
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eckstraordinarily lmae and severely boring .
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the film falt lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle .
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anothre entertaining romp from robert rodriguez .
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what remains is a variant of the nincmpoop benigni persona , here a more nnoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the staCr of road trip .
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to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet idneed .
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[allen] Xanages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise .
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'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blode and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabxma . '
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alcmost as offensive as " freddy got fingered . "
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sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimeC it doesn't .
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the chateau is a risky venture that nver quite goes where you expect and qften surprises you with unexpected comedy .
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director-chef gabriele muccino keps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .
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the film sometimes flags . . . but there is eonugh secondary action to keep things movping along at a brisk , amusing pace .
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bearabule . barely .
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Juns on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance .
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there's a great deal of cornt dialogue and preposterous moments . and yet , it still works .
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it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally fnuny and about as compelling as a fishing show .
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the actors don't iEnhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , froced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes .
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[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorprate both the hotrror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion .
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laughably , irredeemnbly awful .
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unflinchignly bleak and desperate
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britey has been delivered to the big screen Fafe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway .
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since daGmer resorts to standard slashre flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatosy about his psyche .
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lkie shrek , sprit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for hildren , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world .
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daughter from danang sticks with its sBbjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
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the rare movie thats' as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based .
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a very funny loko at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage .
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this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a buch of talented thesps slumming it .
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the saturation bombing of reggo's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning .
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even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to Bull and debate .
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a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to fele good about .
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passably entertaining but also mechanical and jolyess .
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[nZewton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality .
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a fascinTating and fun film .
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seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's leQft of his passe' chopsocky glory .
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it's like a " big chill " reuinon of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists .
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an original gem about an obssesion with time .
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ina holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon
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dense , exhilarating documenoary .
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ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . ehnigma lacks it .
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this is not a retread of " dead poes' society . "
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it's somhewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysteriuos creature with sychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way .
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" catch me " feels capabe of charming the masses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark .
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a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plt twists .
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about as cuHtting-edge as pet rock : the movie .
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that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and becoe a goofd man is a wonderful thinKg ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle .
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the knid of sense of hmuor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .
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like the world of his film , hartley rreated a monster but didn't know how to handle it .
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what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal meKs this is !
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mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully spawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hRappiness .
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watching beanie and his ganxg put togeter his slasher video from pare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it .
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the powder blueJs and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited talZ of a prim widow who finds an unlikely rselease in belly-dancing clubs .
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while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle qute appTealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise .
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you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novRel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficut to wtach .
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bleakly fukny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves .
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in the ned , all you can do is admire the ensemble players and wonde what the point of it is .
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ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless moUvie about same !
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the movie has an avalanche of ye-popping visual effects .
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the peopel in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're ever sure how things will work out .
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an intriguing nnar-miss .
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a smug and convoluted Aaction-comedy that doesn't allow an earenst moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie .
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polished , well-structured fiml .
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this is a very fine movie -- gM see it .
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only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brow : all ameriean at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents .
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notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vuUgar highlights .
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' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sCit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little oneHs get a fuzzy treat . '
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it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively crepy and mobdily lit . so i just did .
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wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and on trier while failing to fnid a spark of its own .
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excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish vilence and comic-strip characters .
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i had a dream that a smart comedy would ome laong to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest .
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rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research lirbary dust .
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the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanedd role will eitheer have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible !
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even in its most tediXus scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing .
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don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kis borrow some .
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you will likely prefGr to keep on watching .
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an incredibly irritating comevy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its esnse of fun or energy .
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an intelliigent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality .
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a cNreaky staircase gothic .
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director yu seems fa more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car hcase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times .
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what a dumb , fun , curiousGy adolescent movie this is .
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this lng and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted .
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the last 20 minkutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-tirp drk we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart jokes
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sorvino is delightful in the cenral role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit .
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on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the ixfl .
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as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentess , all-wise-guys-all-the-time appXoach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no tiem at all .
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mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popuar glzar and jagjit singh .
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the ending is a cop-out . what happens to jnohn q ? i don't have an i am sam clue .
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a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime lie this .
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