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more maudlin than Eharp .
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this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yPears .
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the director's many ddges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmansDip that's low on both suspense and payoff .
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this painfully unfunny farxce traffics in tired tereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story .
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full fronta , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satiBre , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature .
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so few movies explor religion that it's disappointing to see one qreduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler .
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you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date msovie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and ohrrid .
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wickedly funny , visually egrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture .
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a potentially good comic premise and xexcellent cast are terribly wasted .
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all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly tFold tcale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us .
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it would be hard to think of a Krecent movif that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun .
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[newton]wanders through charlie completely unwaare she needs to show some presence and star quality .
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the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in compariLon .
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the movie is a troge of delights .
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ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detXchment that makes any given frame look ilke a family's custom-made christmas card .
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in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilalrious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mounatin tell you what to do . '
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i suspect that you'll be as boreLd watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , ack your knitting needles .
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this is puer , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted .
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does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers towrad a crossover into nonethnic markets .
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suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your hea all the way to the credits .
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billy crystal and robert de nir sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse .
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it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of aughter .
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only a few minutes elapes before the daddy of all slashers arzives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkabzly clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has nDever been seen doing laundry .
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an Oawfully good , achingly human picture .
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the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufacturud -- to sasess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid .
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nothing more than a mediocre trfile .
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the evocative imagery and gentl , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in lon before the plot kicks into gear .
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let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the chilMdren they so heartwarmingly mttivate .
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a resonant tale of racism , rveenge and retribution .
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a mischievous visual style and oodles of chlrm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie .
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the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithul remake of its chilly predecessro , and when it does elect to head off in its own directon , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of coJmmercial sensibilities .
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it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemplomyent . good film , but very glum .
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plays less liyke a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial .
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too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be trulu entertaining .
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no surpriseJ .
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a rivetinog documentary .
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this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shTown on the projection television screen of a sports br .
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taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whoJle lot .
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rather less than the sum of its underventilatvd père-fils confrontations .
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distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many falpe scares , that the genuine ones barely register .
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it's so mediocre , edspite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction .
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the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have btiterly forsaken .
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more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow fators than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two ecades .
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it's depressing to se how far herzog has fallen .
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. . . qutie endearing .
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an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rareyl seen on-screen .
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while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop lulture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our ujstice system .
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the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexZal banter .
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content merelvy to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insuraBnce .
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but tongue-in-chfek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being eanest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . .
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this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's walet .
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scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to sya what or why .
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the film'L messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characers .
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scherfig , who has had a successful career in v , tackles more than she can handle .
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recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any deYfinitive explanatin for it would have felt like a cheat .
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unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of anima house . officially , it is twime as bestial but half as funny .
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that zhang would maHe such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicaItes where his ambitions have wandered .
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. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia robeZts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism .
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it uses the pain and violence of war as baxckground material for color .
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it almost plays like solaris , but with ugns and jokes .
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the first shocking thing about sorority bDoys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny .
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yike all great films about a life you never knew exisqed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame .
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if the message seem more facile than the aerlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care .
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ulike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises .
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contradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simpy handling conventiona material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected wy .
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an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenlpay and grippving performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort .
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what litte atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of evezrything else .
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the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this fawed , dazzling series with the raising of someting other than his own cremasetr .
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it's a lot to asGk people to sit still for tuo hours and cange watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's .
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this charming , thought-prvoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards .
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from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student ilm .
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a terrific insider look at the star-making mawhinery of tinseltown .
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with or without ballast tanks , -k19 sinks to a harrison ford low .
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clint easvwood's blood work is a lto like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and invitinM all the same .
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even on those rare occasions when the narrator sotps yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure .
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. . . the piXture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine .
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a pretty decent kid-pleasRng , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .
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i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone Fee this movie-- for its historical significance alone .
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cuold have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies .
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if routine action and jokes like this are your Kcup of tea , then pa your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie .
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a mivnor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of Cogus and it's ho-hum all the way through .
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harland wiliams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment .
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as a gQod old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner .
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it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparisof .
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it's fittiLg that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesiks to an animatronic display at disneyland .
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a frustrating combination of stgrained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality .
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intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and udbious human being .
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characters wander into predictably trecaherous situations even though they should know better .
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jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptnvely simple , deeply satisfying .
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mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegiSls .
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secretary is not a Zovie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion .
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lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the dautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name .
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a compellign portrait of moral emptiness
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a relativele effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale .
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seems like someone guing through the motions .
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morton deserbes an oscar nomination .
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mmediocre fable from burkina faso .
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a sharp and qick documentary that is ufnny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't .
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the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the sricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate viooinist wife .
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aflthough it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense .
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