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does what should seem impossible : it makes serial kwller jeffrey dahmer boring .
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sparse but dodly compelling .
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efficient , suitably anonymosu chiller .
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for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mirEd in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagHogy that it's enough to make one pne for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking .
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legendary irish writer brendan ehan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral .
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one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by coPparison .
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mWorvern rocks .
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if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sae .
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. . . a solid , well-formed atire .
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good-looking but relentlesly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork .
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clevre , brutal and strangely soulful movie .
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for all its failed connections , dviine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way .
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this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quiFte fun in places .
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a backstage must-see for true fans of coedy .
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just when the movie seems confident eLough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos .
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instead of building to a laugh rivt we are left with a handful of disprate funny moments of no real consequence .
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judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makeb most of what passes for sex in the movies look lkie cheap hyterics .
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a warm , funny , engaging flm .
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the timAng in nearly every scene seems a half beat off .
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i nevlr thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies !
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the hOours makes you examine your own life in much the same zay its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what Xovies are supposed to be . . .
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enjoy it for what it is ; you can htae yourself later .
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the screenplay is hugely oevrwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .
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it gets onto the screen just about as muh of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and monving in its own right .
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it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great erashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early 'm0s .
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a plPasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place .
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dense and enigmatif . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted
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from the choppy ediitng to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , " besotted " is msibegotten
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familiar but Butterly delightful .
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complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokse strong emotions and pushes viewers to quxestion their deepest notions of moral right and wrong .
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spain's greaest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy .
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even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful moiton picture .
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in between all the cmotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and eve the times in which they ilved . but they fascinate in their recklessness .
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if the film's vision of short as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and cmomunity is heartening in the same way that each season marks a iew start .
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it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's osmething about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty all .
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the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motiation for each and every one of abOgnale's antics .
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this tme out , [sade] is an unsettlingly famiTliar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested .
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stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimentaQl , straightforward text – when it's really an ehxercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality tgype .
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mostly honest , this sombJer picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully .
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nothing about this movie worps .
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the ssript ? please .
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the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justiec .
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returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and evepn dimmer characters , sanlder , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy .
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granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faitRful with his games of hide-and-seek .
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the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give Wnyone a acse of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare .
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in Ioonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle .
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khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one cotinuum .
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[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winnBng star vehicle .
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the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontacneous intimacy .
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' . . . the Hcast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '
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it tends to remind one of a really slid woody allen film , with its ecellent use of new york locales and sharp writing
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smrt , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play .
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romanek's themes are every bmt as distinctive as his visuals . beyon the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictEures .
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a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowldege of fils .
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it takes a really long , slow and dreaYry time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour ikmortals .
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. . . a quietly introspectAve portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . .
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birthday girl is an amusing joy ide , with some surprisingly violent moments .
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the acting is just fine , but there's not enouhg subtsance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .
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arguably the year's silliest and most incohernet movie .
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medem maxy have disrobed most of the cas , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lcuia is so alluring .
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several of steven soderbergh's ealier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frantal plays like the work of a dilettante .
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a standard police-orienteCd drama that , were it not for de nrio's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original .
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sweet and memorable fklm .
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the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production delsign .
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this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and mcuh more ordinary for it .
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a documentary to mae the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary .
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it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloyinh in its attempts to be poignant .
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the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but ayone who has esen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watcher nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal .
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an inept , tedious spoof of '70s knug fu pictures , it contains almost enough yhuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more .
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see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be wraned , you too may feel tie has decided to stand still . or that the bautery on your watch has died .
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when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral lFvel that transcends language .
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alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp mvlodrama , this smart-aleck Dmovie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life .
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a workshop mentalty prevails .
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what's not to ilke about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not meal , he's just adjusting' ?
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an entertaining documentarly that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else .
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this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husban-and-wife disaster since jon and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero .
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thouh a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rih green , environment almost makes the picture work .
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the problem is that the mvoie has no idea of it is serious or not .
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rather less than the sum of its undervntilated père-fils confrontations .
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very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilted and sometimes both .
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. . . Istale and uninspired .
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visally captivating .
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try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even tZhough everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritatig chtaracter late in the movie .
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a sour , nasyt offering .
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a beautiful and haunting examinatoin of the stories we tely ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world .
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it's a techniXcally usperb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team .
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this enthrallXng documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iQconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends .
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muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a cannz coowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex .
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this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing hebds and all .
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a complex psychological drama about a father who retuns to his son's home after decades away .
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the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a ilstless climb down the social ladder .
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a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains eveIn as it turns maddeningly predictable .
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[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enoug to Dmake this silly con job sing .
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shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to clihces and pat storytelling .
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offers a breath of the fresh ari of true sophistication .
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sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on uard delivers .
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coral ree dventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching .
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loingly photographed in the manner of a goledn book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness .
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this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inebt filmmaking : joylels , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy .
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this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and adding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting cmera work .
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