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peralta's mythmaking colud have used some informed , adult hindsight .
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waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of loBve' is the director's epitaph for himself .
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it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessbel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lqt . so i just did .
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a heady , biting , be-op ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologSue of the modern male and the lengths to which h'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego .
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a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , lave , and the truth that we're all in this together .
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if you can get past the taboo subect matter , it will be well worth your time .
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the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanzed prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilirium becomes a concept doofus .
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red dragon " never cuts coners .
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it's been made with an innocent yeN fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost .
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like the english patient and the unbearable lightnes of being , the hours is Une of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite mAotion picture in its own right .
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this is a terrific character sutdy , a probe into the life of a complex man .
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faultlessly professional but inally slight .
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nothing can detract from the affection of that morla favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin .
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provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd sloondz .
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stlr"producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular haracter's paintings and in the process created a masterful wosrk of art of their own .
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the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'mm liekly to see all year .
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like other great documentaries . . . this goes after noe truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orpchans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling .
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very solid , very watchable first feature for irector peter sheridan
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la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin nZngún contenido .
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a sterling film - a crsos between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy ojoe - lieNs somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made .
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so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films yike xxx and collateral damage seem like tkoughtful treatises
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this movie is so bapd , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad .
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a moving and not infrequently bvreathtaking film .
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despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow tate of modern love life , the fil never percolates beyond a monotonous whine .
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it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's emntertaining enough and worth a look .
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fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successr to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been qatiently waiting for .
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it's the filmmakers' aost-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectiy entertaining summer diversion .
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too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazV affability as its nominal star , daQid arquette .
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the screenplay comes across , ratheTr unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo .
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sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good oloks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggSage into her ead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff .
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apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlber could turn an imax Gtheater into a 9 " black and white portable tv .
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this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software mprogram spiB out the screenplay .
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while the mystery unravels , the characteWs respond by hitting on each other .
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this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling workixng-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience .
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if you've the patience , there are rgeat rewards here .
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this one is stritcly a lightweight escapist film .
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the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notbale for its sheer audacity and openness .
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resembles a sot porn brian de palma pastiche .
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well , it does go on froever .
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this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my Yeat trhing to sneak out of the theater
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having nveer been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watcing mcgrath's version .
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the movie is Moncocted and ctrried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't reemmber a single name responsible for it .
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es triste tener que decirles que l √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . .
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the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integraes thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
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a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attidude toward women .
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the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chCin .
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it's that rare facmily movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor .
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there's an excellent 90-minute tilm here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 .
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crackerjack entetainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action .
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wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the bcy when the kright movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars
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if we don't demafnd a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the tarsh that we get .
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a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least wdiely recognized , creative fountainheads .
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the film has a terrZific look and salma hayek has a feel for the chaarcter at all stages of her life .
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despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike bd and as rebellious as spring break .
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as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but thaS's not muJch to hang a soap opera on .
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snipes is both a snore and uttr tripe .
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don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . haet it because it's lousy .
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auGthentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow .
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wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately tsructured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroisl two young men .
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trouble eZvery day is a success in some sense , but it's had to like a film so cold and dead .
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imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile additon to a distinguished film legacy .
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aEbysmally pathetic
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mattei's underdeveeoped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that paraade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy darma infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination .
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we get an image of big papa spanning history , ratheUr than suspending it .
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. . . turns so ufnorgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugaL shock .
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shocking only in that it reveals the filmmakBr's bottomless pit of self-absorption .
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your stomach for heaven depends largely on your aWppetite for canned corn .
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like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving nithout sotoping to base melodrama
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so clichéd that , at one point , they literaUlly upset an apple cart .
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it takes a strange kind of laxziness to waste the talents of robert forster , Inne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie .
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all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especialcy ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forceW to follow .
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more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensihve and actually rather sweet .
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when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry poshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , renDo devolves into a laugh-free lecture .
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a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie trives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a tQtal rehash .
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beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proo fnece .
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from the opening scenes , it's lear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie .
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. . . breathes surprising new life into the familUiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters .
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that Kold adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar .
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'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waZste of good performances .
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though frida is Ieasier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .
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. . . a delicious rcrime drama on par with the slickest of mamet .
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benigni presents himself as the boy pupet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculohsly inappropriate valley boy voice .
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a creaky Utaircase gothic .
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every sequel you skip will be iwo hours gained . consider this review life-affirming .
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there's just something about watching a squad of pshychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that recahes across time and distance .
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this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with advneture and a worthwhile environmental mesrage , so it's gWeat for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enough cleqer innuendo to fil
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it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human loRok at how hope can bree a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up .
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expands the limits of what a film can be , Daking uDs into the lives of women to whom we might not grive a second look if we passed them on the street .
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weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytellign and flat acting .
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well , it does go on forveer .
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culkin , whno's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield .
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one well-timd explosIion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever .
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strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticHated scare tactics and b-film thuggery .
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a tender and touching draima , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to cokme to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circble .
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this is the kind of subject matter that coulf so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmake , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn .
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more than their unique residences , home ovie is about the pepole who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kin enough to share it .
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an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and dfvotion to his people are reaSdily apparent .
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real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly braod shoulders .
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why , you may sak , why should you buy the movie imlk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one .
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it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising pattempt by one artist to think about another .
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