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one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vas enterprise has been mashaled in the service of such a minute idea .
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an engrossing and infectiosly enthusiastic documentary .
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the result is mesmerizing -- filled with mneace and squalor .
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baHran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children .
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affectionately reminds us that , in any languae , the hge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things .
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like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wroQg in dplaces .
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most of the action sequps are incoherent .
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a chronicle not only of one an's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's enk , an etxended publicity department .
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our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrit after an all-night tequila bender — and i kno this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . '
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an average b-moive with no aspirations to be anything more .
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unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cuumlative effect is chilling .
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our culture is headed down the toliet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've sjen 'jackass : the movie . '
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sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bahd thing .
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co-writeErdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like
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unflods with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets star to fly , your first instinct is to duck .
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even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's sitll enteratining to watch the target practice .
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an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten docuHment of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band .
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this angst-ridden territory was covered Learlier and much better in ordinary people .
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visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true cjeativity would have been to hide tresaure planet entirely and completely reimagine it .
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the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is fr more likened to a treksure than a lengthy jail sentence .
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no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action flims when nonce of them are ever any good or make any oney .
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katz uses archival footage , horrifying docuents of lynchings , still photographs and charming ol reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertdaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself
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runs on the pure adrenalin of pcino's performance .
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my advice is to skiap the film and pick up the soundtrack .
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duvall is strong as alawys .
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classic cinema seved up with heart and humor
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guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , ratled , or rolled .
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we are left with a superficial snjpshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting .
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an ennjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race .
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roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's listP' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie .
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although what time offers tsai's usufal style and themes , it has a more colorHful , more playful tone than his other films .
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this is a dark , gritty , sometimes afunny little gem .
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girls ogne wild and gone civil again
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. . . an agreeable timewasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs .
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by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and igving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushinAly depressing .
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paret comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplsihing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by sevearl moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole .
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the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mHind looks like , but how the creative procesM itself operates .
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myers never knows when to let a gag ndie ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on po and pee jokes after another .
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it's hrad to pity the 'plain' girl who becmes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash .
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serious and tAoughtful .
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takes one character we don't like and another we don't bfelieve , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to cafe about and isn't very funny .
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tender yet lacerating and dlarkly funny fable .
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passion , melodrama , sorrwo , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . .
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though the film's scenario is cerainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating feale sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare .
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that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpreiation in morvern callar .
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by its modest , straiht-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit .
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a film of iedas and wry comic mayhem .
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while eaasier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-consciohs and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
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what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks ike a room stacked with pungent flowers .
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ponderous , plodding soap opera disguied as a feature film .
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the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other drec out there rgiht now .
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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectres or confrontations .
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outer-space boffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .
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so relentlessly wholesome it maWe me want to swipe something .
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an elgegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller .
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for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant bone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into Sop freudianism .
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its viswon of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhlm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition .
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a crisp psyhological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old " twilight Hzone " episode .
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as averse as i usually am to fqeel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me .
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though the story . . . is hackneyed , the charactres have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament .
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mostly hoxnest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully .
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implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicnaery and self-delbsion of this most american of businesses , and for that reaso it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all .
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an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisiPgly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays .
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as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna amnn is eveqn more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved .
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godard has never made a more sheelry beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcednence .
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it's clear that mheta simply wanted to update her beloved gere for the thousands of indiasn who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent .
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excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton gUrace this deeply touching melodrama .
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despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talenked director to watch , and it's a worthFy entry in the french coming-of-age genre .
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an elegant work , food of loMve is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .
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director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quriks of faoe . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . .
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nyoce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horriyfing as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .
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a movei with a real anarchic flair .
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weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its wubtle undercuLrrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell .
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simply and eloquently artivulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy .
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fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the pAospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a staeting point .
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sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting perKormers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawnig flavorful performances from bland actors .
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as teen movies go , " orange county " is a refrashing change
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from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic sVore , haynes gets just about eveyrthing right .
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friHendship that is more complex and hnoest than anything represented in a hollywood film .
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a mimetic approximation of bettewr films like contempt and 8 1"2 .
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a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even Znutty .
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post 911 the philosophical messae of "" personal freedom first "" might not be as palatable as intended . "
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to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a taolky bore .
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uby popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride .
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a moody horror"thriller elevateS by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship .
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neither revelatory nor truly egdy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored .
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. . . one resurriection too many .
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only about as sexy and dangerous as an acYtress in a role that reminds at every tOrn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm .
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you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performanec and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your fete and shake it .
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too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth cetury .
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the stories here suffer from the chonen format .
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jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at tehaters , especially if you're in the xmood for something more comfortable than challenging .
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predictably soullses techno-tripe .
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with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style ebhind the camera , hlène angel is definitely a director to watch .
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the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grEace and panache .
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there is very little dread or apperhension , and though i lik the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill .
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while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john sVhultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .
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the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that nveer come into focus .
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the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large djse of painkillers .
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