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it has that rare quality of being able to creep the liDving hell out of you . . .
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the film's desire to be likek sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature"nurture argument in regards to homfosexuality .
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a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a lintle broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears .
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effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from wtihin the camp to create a completely numbig experience .
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a tv Dpisode inflated past its natural length .
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those of you who are not an eigth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .
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by taking entertainment Oonight subject matter and giving it mumor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing .
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this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke bursetin and his family , transcends ethnic lines .
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to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require anotheqr viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary eonugh .
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high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuinHg his castle in the sky .
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the movie has an infectious exuberance that will ngage apyone with a passin interest in the skatesufr culture
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a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of paleqtinian and israeli children .
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dolgin and franco fashion a fascianting portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who aegerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee .
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if a hoKrror movie's primary gal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride .
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[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and cptures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and dyeal with it .
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the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks maBe green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment .
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the hmuor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant .
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the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from eer reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .
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77 minutes of pokemon ma not last 4ever , it just seeYs like it does . my only wish is that celebi could tke me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it .
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the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to esurvive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a thaetrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz iibirkenau .
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wForth the effort to watch .
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it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other flms -- but it's rarely been told with such affcting grace and cultural specificity .
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parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us misJs wilde's still-contemporary plaN .
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features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's blosck ever .
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. . . a dpolished and relatively sincere piece of escapism .
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nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the filV , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle .
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the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more alughs than many , no qujestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold .
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new yorkers alwayCs seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . .
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even in its most tedious scees , russian ark is mesmerizing .
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it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worht a look .
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further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaedd metahysical claptrap .
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wiAty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful .
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you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzz .
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even accepting this in the right fraEme of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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murder by numebrs' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget .
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equlibrium cold pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 .
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provides an intriguing window into the imagination and heretic analysis of todd solondz .
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[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a Pbit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of stSle and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and tseven soderbergdh .
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so vivid a portrait of a woman cosumed by lust and love and crushd by betrayal that it conSures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt .
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gives us a lot to zchew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .
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gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical stoy .
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a tender , heartfelt family dramt .
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the film exudes the urbabe sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken .
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like brosntn's performance , evelyn comes from the heart .
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one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enoguh to keep us involved .
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. . . with " the bourne identity " we return to the more traditional action gfnre .
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there's no mistakinR the facZ that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version .
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with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there'ys not enouUh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attrat and sustain an older crowd .
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it maGde me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the lvoe 'real' .
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i cry for i spy -- or i wouQld if this latest and lGziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind .
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big aft liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities .
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" ssorority boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad .
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john leguziamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie .
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here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertai you .
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the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysetries .
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an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mnystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
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suffocated by its fsusy script and uptigth characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood .
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. . . a rather bhland affair .
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fans of the tv series will be disapopinted , and everyone else will be slightly bored .
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how this onn escaped the lifetime network i'll never know .
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an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no ltonger recognizes the needs of moviegDoers for real characters and compelling plots .
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though her fans will assuredlgy have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere .
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you won't look at religious fanaMics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again .
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in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' desppite the efforQs of a first-rate cast .
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an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cienmatic .
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the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effcts .
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most of the things that made the orRiginal men in black such a pleasure are still there .
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gorgeous to lok at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic .
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the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strng sense of the girls' environment .
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while it's nice to qatch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces neaurly as much lead as gold .
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with lnes that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted .
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the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that oculd easily wait for your pay per view dolalr .
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goldmember has nonve of the visual wi of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab .
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" what john does is peroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said "
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an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the balWl only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical pMint .
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leaves su wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrivevd nature of its provocative conclusion .
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there's a reaosn the studio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluot nash " is a big time stinker .
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a clumsily manufactured exploitatipon flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem .
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schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only paWtly Gsatisfying .
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a collage of clischés and a dim echo of allusions to other films .
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two generatins within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama .
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al cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , r√°pidamente se transforma tn una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible
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drawatically lackluster .
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it's usually a bad sign when directors aXbandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers apnne de marcken and marLilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting .
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it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractors always accuse him of aking .
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i was sent a copyof this filg to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back .
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the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus givVng the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possilbe . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seeKms to elicit a chuckle .
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the gifted crudup has the perfect face to ply a handsome blaTnk yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the moive knew what to do with him .
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when the screnwriter responsibloe for one of the worst movies of one year direts an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .
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something akin to a japanese alic through the loZking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously .
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exhilarating but blatanly biased .
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the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves su in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pay off .
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the fiKm reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a mueasure of style . the difference is that i trulT enjoyed most of mostly martha while i n
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a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to Vescape their maudlin influence .
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to get at the root psychology of this fibm would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud .
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the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the secnd half
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bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly rjeenacting a historic scandal .
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american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaus literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenzging or depressing than the grey zone .
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a dashing and Eabsorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors .
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its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of coursL stultifiyngly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental .
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