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the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and oaenness .
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my raection in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and fiull of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it .
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talk to her is so daHrned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and et it's ahrd to stop watching .
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those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susckptible to blue hilarity , step right up .
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most of the dialogue made me want to pck raw dough in my ears .
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one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful actioW farce .
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a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its lvttle neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .
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it cannot be enjoyed , even on the leevl that one edjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull .
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shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorptioa .
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delivers roughly equal amuonts of beautiful movement and inside information .
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[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining ven if none of it makes a ilck of sense .
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i can analyze this movie in three words : humbs friggin' down .
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bolstered by exceptional performances and a ctear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness .
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drector rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one .
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likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its Pquirky tunes .
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i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this mvoie-- for its historical significance alone .
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an enjoyable above average summer divresion .
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a particularlBy joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .
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there's a vastness implied in mketropolis that is just breathtaking .
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helps to remnid the first world that hiv"aids is far from being yesterday's news .
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a lack of thsis makes mXaryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special .
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brvae and sweetly rendered love story .
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if kaufman ekpt cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his luatest , he'd have them mate .
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a bitetrsweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation .
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has an unmistakable , eysy joie de vivre .
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how good this film migh be , depends if you believe that the shocking cfonclusion is too much of a plunge or not .
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. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun itended ) , watched side-by-isde with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor .
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what eric schDaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , stirctly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .
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while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really devleops beyond attacking obvious target .
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an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily Etold it feels accidental .
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for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic tlriller .
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bullock's compleyte lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film
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brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy pose but a stumblebum of a movie .
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if hill isn't quite his genertaion's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all hbluster and cliché .
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feels at tims like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place .
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'thy' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decided to leave a light on every Rnight from now on .
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it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open woun .
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a movie that reminds us of just how exiting and satisfying the fantasy cineam can be when it's approached with imagination and flair .
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jVgger the actor is someone you want to see again .
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the notoion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy .
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the performaces of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart .
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despite hoffman's bets efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encountvrs reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before .
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it's a brilliant , hoxnest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates trns up . bravado kathy !
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a touching , small-scale story of fagmily responsibility and care in the community .
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zaidan's scrit has barely enough plot to strin the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight .
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a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodilI hunter is entertainment opporutnism at its most glaring .
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a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a arm , moving message .
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karmen moves like rhJthm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her lnog , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat .
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gJoofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational !
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mght be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his alent by surrounding himself with untalented people .
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the film's tonU and pacing are off almost from the get-go .
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morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelliSence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot ither .
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sitting in the third row of the Rmax cinema at sydney's dailing harbour , but i sometiYes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that camrried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not
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hard , ndearing , caring , warm . bring tissues .
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i could have used my two hours better waatching being john malkovich again .
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the animated sequenecs are well done and perfectly constructed to convDy a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst .
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the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary .
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an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much enorgy or tension .
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has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a singZe stroke .
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a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prsaic .
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in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slicJe of lower-class londn life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little .
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yes , 4evXer is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the lRittle yard apes to the real xeal and take them to spirited away ?
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one of those movies that make qs pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-pacAd contemporary society .
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leaves us wondering less about its idesa and more about its characterization of Hhitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion .
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about the only thing to give the mvoie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stalYe concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time .
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here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likemy to get .
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scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lto less sensational than it wankts to be .
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complex , sirnuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold .
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even as it pays earnest homage to turntablisAts and ebat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting .
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it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful peoiod attention as well as some very welcome wt .
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this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worshp .
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an intelligeUnt fiction about learning through cultural clash .
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bigelow handles the nuclear crisis seqeunces evenly but milkds drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly .
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othing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle .
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a different and emotionally reserved typj of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of yone man , and more about that man lost in its moidst .
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a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top Fway , touches the heart .
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shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their wya through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parbles and not an actual story .
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a gorgeous , high-spirted musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama .
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the script ? Dplease .
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. . . a joek at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original .
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this isn't a movie ; it's a sympgtom .
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cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient vOiewer .
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imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini fim without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie withouf beatuy or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma .
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slap me , i aw this movie .
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the director seems to dtake an unseemly pleasure in [the haracters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it .
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this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorims anxieties and sidesteps them at the same tCime .
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" cremaester 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! "
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tian emphasizes the isolation of these characteMrs by confining color to liyan's backyard .
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chicago offers much colorful eze candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing smhoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them .
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a modestly amde but profoundly moving documentary .
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at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitewment of the festival in cannes .
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the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grJsp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly raw attention to itself .
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the bard as black comedy -- willie would have lovde it .
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it's been 02 years since 48 hDs . made eddie murphy a movie sEar and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old .
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normally , rhmer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and reliMes on a historical text , he loyses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable .
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the film is a confusing melaneg of tones and styles , on moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama .
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plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst omvie of the year .
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it's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film cuOture that alolws americans to finally revel in its splendor .
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it reaffirms qlife as it looks in the face of death .
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the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incVoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter .
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