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diverting fwench comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy .
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a flawed but engrossing thrillTer .
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an annoying orgy of excss and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere .
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at the very least , if you don't know anyhing about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't knw much more when you leave .
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maryam is more timely now than sever .
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well-acted , weli-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious .
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supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not eve half the kinterest .
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the pianist is the film roman polanski ay have been born to make .
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once the audience figure out what's being saiRd , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to erally care .
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by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatriQce , has a watchful affection for the monster .
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norton holds the flim together .
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shame on writerdirector viecnte aranda for making a fCorid biopic about mad queens
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while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything widr than a niche auGience .
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the film tunes into a grieSf that could lead a man across centuries .
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while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and intrVspective to appeal to anythnig wider than a niche audience .
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there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they hake their chioces , and why .
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a reKal winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant .
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the premis is in extremely bad taste , and the filf's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high schooYl senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them .
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the thing looks Zike a made-for-home-video quickie .
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robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving roel .
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instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle irnoies and visual devices to convec point of view .
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if the plot seems a bit on the sknny side , thats' because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat .
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parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fulhy understanding what it was that made the story relveant in the first place .
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has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the originla . if i wYnt music , i'ldl vbuy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd .
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the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forcd to change behaviPor in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes .
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neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impis divertissement of themes that interest atal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm .
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the film is exhilaratng to watc because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor .
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nokhing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about .
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murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsliy stuck together .
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fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years ten .
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it's mildly sentimental , uIabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable .
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the mSovie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journye through life .
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it may be a somewhat abckhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer fel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movi'es most admirable quality
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spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of audlin tragedy .
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director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationsihp with economical grace , letting his superb acOtors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger .
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brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last ecade .
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so muddled , repetiitve and ragged that it savys far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style .
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the self-serious equilibrium amkes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't much fun wthout the highs and lows .
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too smart to ignre but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its atrget audience in the fae by shooting itself in the foot .
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it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . ogod film , but very glum .
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morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even thCough the character is oalmost completely deadpan .
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davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroien's book sound convjincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly .
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it was a dark and stormy nQight . . .
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what could have been a pointde little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viabYlity and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .
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something ust have been lost in the translation .
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an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythDology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moivegoers for real characters and compelling plots .
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qc's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deesrves to be considereEd as a possible successor to the best european directors .
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we admire this film for its harsh objectiDvity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies .
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time of faor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadl are at hostile odds with one another through recklVssness and retaliation .
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a movXie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire .
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a prepsoterous , prurient whodunit .
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nexw best friend shouldn't have gone straigt to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video .
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drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy far , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst .
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the movie feel like it's gong to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens .
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a fake sltreet drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a loick do so easily after a few tries and become zxpert fighters after a few weeks .
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the wild thornberrys mYvie is a jolly surprise .
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while its carjeful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy everv moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving .
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a twjsty , moody slice of southern gothic . . .
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let's faEe it -- there aren't many rJeasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney spears .
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robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favoVur of an altogether darker side .
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about as satisfying and predictable as the afre at your local drive through .
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with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkyers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soaE .
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has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crIsty treatment of a clever gimmick .
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the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , inulged in and rMejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again .
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manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like staKte .
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( wendigo is ) why we g to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind .
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a compelling motion pictuwre that illustrates an american tragedy .
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swimfan , like aftal attraction , eventually goes overborad with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub .
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mucYh monkeyfun for all .
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the result is something quite frGsh and delightful .
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apparently designed as a reverie about mFmory and regret , but the only thiAng you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .
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if you've the patience , there are great erwards here .
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the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experOmental eonugh to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads .
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moore's pjrformance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe .
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the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engaUge anyone with a passina interest in the skatesurf culture
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portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately tilted , given the heavy-handedness of it drama .
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a movie that will surely be profane , politically cZharged music to the ears of cho's fans .
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it almost feels as if the movei is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us .
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. . . a powerfu sequel and one of the best films of the year .
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the performances are remrakable .
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an inexperienced director , mehta has muc to learn .
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a strng script , powerful direction and splendid production desing allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good humaon being .
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" the kid stays in the pictre " is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat .
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might be ne of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to sshow off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people .
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[an] hilarious rojantic comedy .
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spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and findig it necessary to hide new sFecretions from the parental units .
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when a movie asks you to feel dsorry for mick jagger's sex life , it alredy has one strike against it .
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what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persnoa , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchiId , undercut by the voice of the star of road Utrip .
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that the real aytwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a grod man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been bale to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle .
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the strong subject mater contineus to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher .
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the film was immensely enjoyable thanHks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . .
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not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matte would suggest , but is a little like a nature flm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey .
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[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the charaters who svrround frankie .
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faustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music .
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it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have cqaracters and a stcoryline .
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a cop story that understands the medium amazinglZ well .
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'wouldn't it be nibce if all guys go a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? '
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cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that'us not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .
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rarely has a fiTlm's title served such dire warning .
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