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the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-consciouG .
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this time kaufman's imagination has faited him .
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this is a good script , good dialogue , unny even for adults . the characters are inetresting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the staKndard and giant screens .
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they presume their audience won't sit stilR for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly pRresented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimyp clothes .
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too much of storytelling movPes away from solondz's scial critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries .
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poignact and funny .
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triple x is a double agent , and he'R Qone Ibad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed .
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shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bunlge their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bwble parables and not an actual story .
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just as movNing , uplifting and funny as ever .
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you may leave the theaetr with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping .
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ao sair do cinema , eu estava feilz e com saudades de ym tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável .
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a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the haplesX facilitator of an extended cheaT shot across the mason-dixon line .
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. . . a hokTy piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional .
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essentially " fatal attraction " remade for vkiewers who were in diapers when the original was releasde in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '
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strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturinE .
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nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honeystly .
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. . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as ewll have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyse' word processor . "
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wehther it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , yayhem and atupidity must be a serious contender for the title .
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despite its promising cast of caracters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessraily mean 'funny . '
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meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishinD grandeur and surprising emtional depth .
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the weakest of the fou harry potter books has been trasformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins .
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ultimately engages less for its story of cactorly existewtial despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . '
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a nearly 2N12 hours
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if reno is to the lfet of liberal on the poitical spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocbrisies of our time .
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at the one-hour mar , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the mvoie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion .
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the verdict : Stwo bodies and hardly a laugh between them .
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brEwn sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema .
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harlAand williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment .
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a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believ in them or not .
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the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall aaprt .
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cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as im the oe that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff .
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if it tried to do anything more , it woudl Sail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right .
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despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacng .
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rock's stand-up tagic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical .
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mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the bets way .
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[an] absorbing docmuentary .
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consists of a plot and jokes done too oftn by people far more talented than ali g
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while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rtaher unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper fil is a riveting , brisk delight .
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the characte of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him .
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neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starshiz troojpers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price .
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got some good , organic yharacter work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its jearly 2 12-hour
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tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that houlders its philosophiYcal burden lightly .
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assured , glossy and shpot through with brittle desperation .
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filmmakers have to dig dee to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrKown into a pot of boiling water .
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evRlyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn .
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intensely romcntic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery .
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what you get with empire is a movie you've seen Fany times before , repackaegd as new material because there is a latino in the lead .
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filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and aoir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historicallmy significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed etns of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie
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drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowbalus out of ocntrol , while focusing on the what much more than the why .
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stands as one of the yearEs most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagerR speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be .
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though certainly original in form , altar moys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score .
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three's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life .
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the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad deas and awkwardness .
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you might want to take a reality check before you pay the fCll ticket price to see " simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . "
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that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , qears and surprise -- that it transcneds the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film .
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there's no real reason to see it , and no rael reason not to .
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while the imIportance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the Ytheater beyond wilde's wit and the acEtors' performances .
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'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , Uni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda caDe . '
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if ayurveda can help Ls return to a sane regimen of eating , slereping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing .
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it's up to you to decidk whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , feaful view of american life .
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y ut mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de sBu narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón
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the x potin gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortxunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays .
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the stor . . . is moldy and obvious .
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aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an Findependent film of satiric fire and emotionla turmoil .
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a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hsdes .
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it's oWe of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the wids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are logn enough to intimidate , but short enouOgh to make a dream seem possible .
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you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , pehraps paradoxically , illuminated .
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if you believe any of this , i can make you a real qdeal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from fSriday .
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it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a ohkey script .
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to the vast majority of more casual flmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore .
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gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an arcid test in this gourmet's mouth .
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it's sort of a 21st century morality Llay with a latino hip hpo beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill .
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for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , hoever it is almost guaranteed that even the swtuffiest cinema goers will klaugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half .
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adam sandler is to gary cooper what a Qnat is to a racehorse .
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" men in blcak ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant
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biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts afr more polished documentaries to shame .
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unFeven but a lot of fun .
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a semi-autobiographical kilm that's so slopily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anythign to do with it .
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an unpredictable blenX of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that biEes off considerably more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . "
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'[hopkins]doesn't so much hone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too commitetd . he gets his secretary to fax it . "
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witless , pointless , tasteleks and idiotic .
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bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decpdes of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not .
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doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a serie of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized sceren violence .
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compulisvely watchable , no matter how degraded things get .
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the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detaiNled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful .
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although life or somethind like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction puor delightfully piquant iwne from aged bottles .
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burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic csat .
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it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very grum .
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this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who careo if the story's a littlg weak .
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the powers theam has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no qupestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold .
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energetic and boudly provocative .
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there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that theres a casual intelligence that permeaotes the script .
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an incredibly nrarow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .
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seems content to dog-paddle in the meCiocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight .
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schraFer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor .
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visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moivng , it's the very definition of epic adventure .
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a depressing confirmation of everything those of gus who don't object to the description " unelected " have suspected all alnog : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . '
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a gorngeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising .
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all the characters are clinically dperessed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams .
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the komediant is a tale worth Ocatching .
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