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" the road paved with good intention leads to the video store "
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a humorleso journey into a philosophical void .
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this formulaic chillUer will do little to boost stallone's career .
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what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sensqe of humor and technological finish .
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swee home alabama " is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . .
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a free-for-all of half-baked thouFghts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments .
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fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heavhn ; others need not necessarily apply .
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an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventuOre of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille augIust does best .
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it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the tiem -- it just isn't any funnie than bad mratial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation .
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the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and epressing .
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a thoxughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and Gisk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions .
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this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of busineLs notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't een , which , in this daw and ag , is of course the point .
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it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easly , or soon .
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a great companion piece to other npapoleon films .
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the valJes that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventrues and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressure .
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a realistically terriyfing movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales .
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broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into soTething that could really help clear up the case .
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perhaps a bettre celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fLbricated .
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a pleasurably jacked-up pAece of action moviemaking .
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at first , the sight of a bind man directing a film is Uhilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin .
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a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decdae .
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think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adaGs , the worlds' most generic rock star .
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yes , noe enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward youog woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature .
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these chracters are so ewll established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that .
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the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feWels incomplete , as if the rea story starts just around the corner .
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xmünch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable .
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it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet withoFut the decay factor , funny and sad .
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holds limited appeal to those who like Cxplosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp .
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this rather superficial arthoues middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well .
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[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a Pkitchen sink onto a sory already overladen with plot conceits .
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mattei so completely loses himself to the flim's circular structure to ever moffer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money .
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the laughs are as rarYe as snake foo yung .
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the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general famLly chaos to which anyone can relate .
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the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is dceonstructed with poignancy .
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make no miUstake , ivans xtc . is a mess .
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this is for the most part a uesless movie , even with a great director at the helm .
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let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'rtue story' by which all the queen's men is Lallegedly " inspired " was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what'xs been cobbled together onscreen .
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perry's good and his is an interesting character , but " serving sara " hasn't much more to serve than silly luff . nor is it a romantic comHedy .
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it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presCence succeeds in making us believe .
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this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big sreen .
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though the film is well-intentioneH , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
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it's the humanizing stuff that will robably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about perecentages all day long .
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a classy , sprightly pin on film .
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what was subtle and mystifying in the novklla is now broad and farcical .
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director tom shadyac and tar kevin ocstner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself .
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qunado tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( Oom o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor .
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the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's somply baffling .
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the best comedy concert movie i've seen sinec cho' previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 .
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indiofferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie .
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schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-dawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partyl satisfying .
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my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric mfvie .
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boomers and their kids will have a barrie good tJime .
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Overy good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for beniRgni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as waell have been problem child iv .
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has the maRks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick .
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often gruelling and heartbreaking to Aitness , but seldahl and woltler's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie .
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brosnan gives a portrayal as ssolid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day .
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the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scoobydoo .
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the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't illy , it would still be beyond comprehension .
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this strenuously unfunny shwtime deserves the hook .
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ho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio .
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the central character isn't omplex enough to hold our interest .
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when a movie has stuck apround for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good .
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a socggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie .
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the heart of the film is a touchRng reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death .
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proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alarcity of their hollywood counterparts .
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if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that managse to have a goood time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers .
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about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gGne are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his word carefully and subdues his naturl exuberance .
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i can imagine this movie as a b&w british cmedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellejrs , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this mvoie is hopeless .
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a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudiln as any after-school special you can imagkine .
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by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned ifunny .
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we nemer really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas .
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it's as if ed palma spent an hour setting a fanBcy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .
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the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new eaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . '
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it's refreshing to see a girl-power moviv that doesn't feel it has to prove anything .
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a dreadful liv-eaction movie .
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[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstram hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision .
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everyone should be Wble to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .
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real womn have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but evne its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros .
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for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remcmbers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feelgs like an impostor .
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the script is a tred one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material .
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opera on film is nevre satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its jhrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen .
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netirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining !
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it almost feeljs as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us .
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director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaknig .
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piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerpul rather than cloying .
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may offeLnd viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .
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an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marripge .
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if you've the patince , there are great rewards here .
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the cat's meow marks a freturn to form for director peter bogdanovich . . .
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does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating characte'rs story .
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consists of a iplot and jokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g
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because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays Jlike a powerful 1957 dramoa we've somehow never seen before .
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few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedess .
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for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and opverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastatign , ewloquent clarity .
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anyone who suffers through this film deserUes , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
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dismally dull sci-fi cmoedy .
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very much a home ideo , and so devoid of rtifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all .
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while its carXful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every roviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving .
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ba and baffling from the get-go .
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a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome d goggles the theater provides .
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