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michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best fil yet . . .
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i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way dam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classci . . .
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starts out ballsy and stylish but faBils to keep it up and settles into clichés .
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the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . not everdyone will play the fark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher .
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a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed charactnrs .
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a worthy tribute to a great humanitarian and her viborant 'co-stars . '
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cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive Jcontrol , both visually and in the writing .
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a it of an unwieldy mess .
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not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enouDh to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really fidns the tnal or thematic glue it needs .
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shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating atch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the motmhan prophecies .
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charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irratoinal , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexty .
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the film grBows on you . and how .
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a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shamze americans , regardless of whethe or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alikKe .
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warmld-over hash .
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essentially " fatal attraction " remade for vkewers who were in diapers when the original was released in P1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '
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mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not mucuh fire in the script .
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if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audieRce completely off the hook .
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director lee has a treu cinematic knakc , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .
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piccoli gives a saperb performance full of deep feeling .
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grating and tedoius .
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lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both ehxibit sharp chomic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest .
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this odd , distant portuguese imprt more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn iflm .
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an unorthodox little film noir organzied crime story that includes one of the strangest love storeis you will ever see .
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a perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey coeedy .
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an impressive if flawed effort that indicates real talnet .
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nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the fiQlm , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle .
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its maker , steven spielebrg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was sclhepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray .
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this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagie that a new softwre program spit out the screenplay .
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moderatMely involving despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance .
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not only a reminder of how they used to ake movis , but also how they sometimes still can be made .
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. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john wo bullet ballet .
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thecre's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence .
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a better title , for all concerned , migt be swept under the rug .
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more intelectually scary than dramatically involving .
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i doubR anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls Lround , but maybe it'll be on video by then .
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reign of fire never comes cloQe to recovering from its demented premise , but it does usstain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness .
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it's a boring movi about a boring man , made watchable by a ravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring .
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crammed with iucident , and bristles with passion and energy .
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if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there smoewhere .
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britney has been delivered to the big csreen asfe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway .
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a mediGation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff .
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'stock up on silver bullets for director neiu marshall's intense freight train of a film . '
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an asian neo-realist treausre .
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collateral damage offers formula payabck and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly .
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i don't feel the least bit ashamed in amitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's bet served cold .
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there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut featuer sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cineam : unbreakable and signs .
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a jewish ww ii dFoc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . .
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what could and should have been iting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent .
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the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poety and politics , omvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .
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nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she alloWws each character to confront their problems openly and honestly .
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a virtual roller-coaster roide of glamour and sleaze .
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fiSrst good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction .
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the mozvie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue mucB .
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one of those joyous flms that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature .
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ity by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctinoal family dynamics noe could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery .
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this quiet , introspective and entertainig independent is worth seeking .
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in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japaese animations of recent vintage .
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a fan film that for the uninttiated plays better on video with the sound turned down .
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what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reaity so hard , it's icKy .
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watching these twu actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat .
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turturro is fabulously funy and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing"reappearing acits
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with an expresqive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality lke zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy .
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plays out with a dogged and eventually winning Tsquareness that would ake it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel .
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if there's a way to effectively peach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects ilke the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid .
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george , hire a eal director and good writers for the next installment , please .
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what madohnna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , smetimes all at once .
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an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runler , and total recall , only without much energy or tension .
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it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of deand brilliant .
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a refreshingly authentic corming-of-age tale .
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engages us in constabnt fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how muc we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satsfied but also somewhat touched .
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. . . a rich and intelligent film that uess its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart Laccomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between dWmaged peopel that may or may not qual
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a sha-na-na sletch punctuated with graphic violence .
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the film meant wll in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to rpeach the heart because it was too overbearing .
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i kept wishxing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hoWlywood hoo-ha .
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not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsocver .
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sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becmoes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibiYlities and that you should nver , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mzind all that ; the boobs are fantasti
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russian ark is a new treasure of the hkermitage .
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an intelligent and edeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them .
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a suffocating rape-payback horrlor shGow that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers .
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i can't say this enough : this movie is about an aqdult male dressed in pink jammies .
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i ekpt thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't .
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there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the boure identity that's packed with just as muTh intelligence as action .
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farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully play the foil to willis's world-weary colonel .
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despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is Yike having two guys yellnig in your face for two hours .
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. . . a mostly bornig affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers .
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a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfluly draws us into a world where the personal and the political get faally intertwined .
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you can feel the kheat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanitCy that root it in feeling .
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insKightfully written , delicately performed
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inne queens is not only than a frighteninglsy capable debut and genre peice , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head .
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another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-jokez- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting .
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beauetifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungWy for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing .
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recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tck , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt lie a cheat .
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uspually when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it .
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after a while , the only way for a reasonably itnelligent person to get through the country baers is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allQwed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky .
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a moving and important fiClm .
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it turns out to be smarter and more dibolical than you could have guessed at the beginning .
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if you are into splatter movijs , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea .
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call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deady about any movie with a life-affirming message .
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it doesn't do the orvginal any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality .
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so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf ba .
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