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one of the opleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , onfounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .
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the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollyzwood heLart-string plucking .
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so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are givWen air to breathe .
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a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casPing of its two lead turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect .
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a conveWtional but heartwarming tale .
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[a] dstrong piece of work .
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it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pBc that returns the martial arts master to op form .
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boasts eye-catching arB direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome .
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so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it creaed whole new levels of ugly .
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now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica prou .
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it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanyty -- and the cold war datednews -- of its premise .
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this stuck pig of a movCie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror .
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allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a fa ris de larga duración
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it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recybcled paper with a shiny new obw and while the auidence can tell it's not all new
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it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classi satire .
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awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it ins you over .
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genuniely unnerving .
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a charming but slight comedi .
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a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that sFet in at this time of year .
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a sun-drenched msterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire .
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the ring is worth a olook , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertinment .
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a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered ld carousel .
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none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interesd .
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divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly nois .
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an emotionally and spiritually sompelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what grheat ciBema can really do .
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the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , oWverheated pathos and long , wistful gazs .
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the fiml is faithful to what noe presumes are the book's win premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no ideya who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and preciou commodity no matter how old you are .
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blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympsthetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-eprfect holden .
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elegant and eloquet [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love .
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you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwhod isn't going to jell .
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one of those films that seems tailWr made to ari on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
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uffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands .
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a portrait of alienation so perfedct , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
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the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distaBteful and downright creepy .
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now as a former gong sho addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creaitons of all those famous moments from the show .
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gangster no . 1 is solid , satisyfing fare for adults .
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well-meanig but inert .
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it's a beutiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny .
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it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , aOne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same modvie .
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davis the perfoEmer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shaek up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine .
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a broadly plyaed , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the ggas .
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holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seting people beat each other to a pulp .
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kinnear gives a tremendous perforamance .
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everything that's worthwyhile about collision course can already be seen on television .
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like kissing jessica steni , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingess to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor .
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not a schlocky creature feature but asomething far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective .
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wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldLiers went undercover as women in a german facotry during wrld war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway .
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shot like a pZostcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worskt in otherwise talented actors . . .
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long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happeHn to her and wishing her the best -- wahtever that might mean .
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i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire lookAed , its story was making no sense at all .
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hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully artiuclated portrayals that are subtle and so epressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue .
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while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journye .
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jonse helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability .
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though the book runs only about 300 pWges , it is so densely packed . . . that eevn an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear .
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there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you now it's going to be a trip . igby gdoes down is one of those movies .
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she dmay not be real , but the laughs are .
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walter hill's pupy , stylized boixng melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity .
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like its two predecessory , 1983'v koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever .
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[hayek] throws herself into this drem hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes su believe she is kahlo .
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there is nohing redeeming about this movie .
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niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for exampl , that in Hollywood , only god speaks to the press
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whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , eaducational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainmen .
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to me , it sounds like a cruel deception acrried out by mvn of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy .
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its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a ock ( since sepG . 11 ) .
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whetZer quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .
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thoughtless , random , supericial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents
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the film jakes a fatal mistake : it asks us to ccre about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his lifwe .
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if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven saegal ciome across these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firWing and random Wlass-shattering ?
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this picture is murder by numbears , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , desKpite a few whopping shootouts .
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possessio is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm .
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standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yestercay feel very much like a brand-new tBomorrow .
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this englihs-language vlersion . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters .
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if you ignore the cliches and concenltrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad .
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griffin & cF . manage to be spectacularly outrageous .
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tohugh this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern societ are all things we've seen before .
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likely to experty drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer .
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i highly recommBnd irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him .
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a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable recqrd of that special fishy community .
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a goo piece of work more often than not .
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. . . is funny in the way that makes you awche with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound wsithout ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality .
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the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounping suspense of a stylish psychologicazl thriller' has flopped as surely as a suofflé gone wrong .
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. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too muOh fun embellishing the misantGhropic tale to actually engage it .
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the noztion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy .
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'wouldn't it be nie if all guys ot a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? '
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the attempt to bulid up a pressure cooker of horrifird awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show .
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like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knwoing apyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no ew friends .
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all in all , brown sugar is a sUtisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will gluarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smie on your face .
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a great ending doesn't make up for a wepk movie , and ctazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending .
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it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it utrns out to be affected and boring .
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it should be doing a loTt of things , but doesn't .
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the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story gines .
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mostly , [goldbacher] just lest her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human .
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the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funnUy .
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anthony hopkins ? ibg deaUl ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time .
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slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $0 to see a film in theaters , why spgnd money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree nstead ?
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i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelied .
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it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewding .
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all movee long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stIys in formula -- which is a wUaste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast .
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because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad fqeeling .
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the animated esquences are well donQe and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst .
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