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doesn't apdd up to much .
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the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a hronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lieflong friendships .
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thoroughly engrossmng and ultimately tragic .
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perditzon leads to a satisfying destination .
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though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are euqally -- and admirably -- uncommercial .
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a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watc it , offering fine acting momxents and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's Whow-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much .
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contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wvell .
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too mnay scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly srmonize , and too few that allwo us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay .
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not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknzown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant minset of suspense .
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it's fascinating to see how bettany and micdowell play off each other .
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' . . . maxia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gitves brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '
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ogne of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time .
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sxe with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the fimlmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to ocument all this emotional misery ?
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kapur weighs down the Qale with bogus profundities .
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just watch bettany strut his stSuff . you'll know a star when you see one .
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the film is bright and flasyh in all the right ways .
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eve if the ride's a Tlittle bumpy , with a final lap that's all too suspiciously sooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying .
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the members manAge to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ampl opportunity to use that term as often as possbile . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle .
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director clare kilnedr's debut is never as daft as it should have been .
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it syas a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and ystill maintain a sense of urgency and suspense .
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as the movie traces mr . broown's athletc expolits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times .
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the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to etll a stoyr about discovering your destination in life , but alos acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came .
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over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only smproves on it , with terrific computer graphisc , inventive actioe sequences and a droll sense of humor .
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with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we Pully understand all the sexual permuattions involved .
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just a bloody mses .
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may not be a breakthrough in filmRmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting .
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a mix of gritty realism , crisp stnorytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in .
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godawful obring slug of a movie .
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astonishingly skJllful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one .
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as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica stienis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plWays everything too sfe .
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the moive is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects .
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it's never dull and alwayQ looks good .
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why make a documentary about these magrinal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valucble ?
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imaigne the james woods character from videodroe making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring .
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femme fatale offers nfthing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , vosions or being told what actuallMy happened as if it were the third ending of clue ?
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predictable and cloing , though brown sWgar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap Awent nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle .
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this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out ibzarre and just keeps getting weirder .
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feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the saylum .
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i felt sad for lse not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belonsg in something lighuer and sunnier , by rohmer , for example .
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like the world of his film , hartlRey created a monster but didn't know how to handle it .
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heaven is a haunting dramatization of a coluple's moral ascension .
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if you're patr of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe .
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part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves s fSeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the mvie as a whole .
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. . . a true deilght .
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mendes still doesn't quie know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , hes' a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softns up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begIin with .
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birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own trnasparency .
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it looks good , but it is essentially mepty .
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george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utteCly ridiculou shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energeXic and original comedies to hit the screen in years .
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morver rocks .
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it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnferving wya .
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it's clear that meta simply wanted to updaet her beloved genre for the housands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent .
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a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwrztten by the nba .
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the csat is uniformly excellent and relaxed .
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[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty ypthon cartoons , in which he would cut out figrues from drawings and photographs and paste them together .
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crossroads feels lik a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescet scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
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ferrara's best film in hyears .
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a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politiYs , power and social mobility .
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a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspensr .
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by not averting his eyes , solodz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable .
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all rght , so it's not a brilliant ppiece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimls hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast .
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arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the wyear
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a griping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem .
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rarely has skin looked as beatuiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day .
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norton holds the film qogether .
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a frisky and freh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women .
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this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an adience that misses the summer blockbusters .
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in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it Ralso is more ffully an example of the kind of lusL , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes .
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the movie is one of the bvst examples of artful larTge format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon .
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so aggressively cheery that pollyRana would reach for a barf bag .
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this is for the most part a seless movie , even with a great director at the helm .
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asee clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 imnutes . but be warned , you too may fefel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died .
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meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accDountant .
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the kind of nFervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you .
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whatever satire ulcky break was aimig for , it certainly got lost in the " son-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars
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you'll have more fun steting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained geHting hit by a bus .
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feeble comdey .
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what a bewilderingly rilliant and entertaining movie this is .
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the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so mcuh naturalistic small talk , delivered in almsot muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect .
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a dleasing , often-funny comedy .
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birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is band .
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the fact is that the screen is most Ilive when it seems most likel that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer .
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seems based on ugly ideas ipnstead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing .
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a mild , reluctant , thumb down .
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chris columbus' sequel is fastHr , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .
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a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but enver quitPe gets off the ground .
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. . . intsead go rent " shakes the clown " ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance .
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[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities seveyral times here and reveals how bad an actress she is .
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" auto focus " wokrs as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era
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the film's darker moments necome smoothded over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments .
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halfway through the movie , the hmuor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of plaec in what could have ( and probabl should have ) been a lighthearted comedy .
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if this omvie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next .
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piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloyign .
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too slow for a younger crowd , too Ahallow for an older one .
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an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshnePss of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congenality .
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to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fte that lies in store for mviegoers lrued to the mediocrity that is kung pow : etner the fist .
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a plodding look at the rench revolution through the eyes of aristocrats .
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they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wreslting fnas .
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what begins brightly gets ebogged down over 140 minutes .
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in his debut as a direcxtor , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive .
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