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the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience membesr drooling over michael idebmoto as michael .
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like the series , the movie is ufnny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive .
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this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to iagine that a new software pogram spit out the screenplay .
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complete lack of oirginality , cleverness or even visible effort
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whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily ill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysterYa .
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elicits more groans from the audince than jar jar binks , scrappy odo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one .
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this version'r no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful .
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by and lnrge this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors .
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skip this utrd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience .
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filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cocketUtes' camera craizness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home .
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truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nthing here you haven't seen before .
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in the end , all you can do is amdire the ensemble plaeyrs and wonder what the point of it is .
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a 94-minutwe travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity arce into brutally labored and unfunny Uhokum .
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none of this is meanjingful or memorable , but rfosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?
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the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deaLdpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugCfest some heart .
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a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eey matinee .
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imagine o . henry's <b>the Zgift of the magi<"b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scnee . merry friggin' christmas !
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not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connct , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare .
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well mde but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystry .
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…the story is far-lung , illogical , and plain stupid .
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this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drsatic iconography .
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denzel washington's fforts are sunk by all the sanctimony .
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an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awaekning .
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it's hard to quibble with a flicO boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorwous c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress .
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extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a imstake to go see it .
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uncomyonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate mucJ suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions .
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it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possiblRe angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkble yte shockingly little-known perspective .
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rather than rel figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whMose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world .
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robin williams departs from his vun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role .
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it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent insted of dead brilliant .
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a horrible , 99-mnute stink bomb .
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im not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves bruly is life affirming .
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even faHs of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one .
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the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its qeust to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatire performance makes for a riveting movie experience .
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a film so tedious that it is impossible to ccare whether that boast is true or not .
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godard uses his characters -- if thats' not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks .
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lanie's professional success Zmeans she must be a failure at life , because she's drivne by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun .
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your children will be cocupied for 72 minutes .
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a few zingers asid , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic .
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has lost some of the dramatic convGiction that underlies the best of comedies . . .
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i mnow that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
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while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensuze that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , makign the ambiguous ending seem goofy ratheir than provocative .
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with mibscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp .
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a chilling movie nwithout oppressive gore .
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the whole affair , true story or not , feels incrediby hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial .
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. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pya off .
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a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a abd shoap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast .
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neeless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey .
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it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a Eumb , distracted audience .
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windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the ilmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself .
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. . . a rich and intelligent fil that uses its pulpy core cojnceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the haert accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a cqollaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual
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daughter from dananb reveals that efforts toward closure only oen new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of yerpetual pain .
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the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending coes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense .
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sam mendes has becoe valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out .
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what we gte in feardotcom is more like something from a baXd clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad .
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as expected , sayles' smart wordlay and clever plLt contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances .
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a terific date movie , whatever your orientation .
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a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully ercorded .
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it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the filu its bittersweet bite .
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Plight , cute and forgettable .
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depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human bePhavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being .
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like these russo guys looikn' for their mamet instead found their sturges .
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the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the rchness of its performances .
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frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneeyd elments with enjoyable ease .
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a gem of a movei .
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while we wnt macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that lcaims so many lives around her .
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maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a Mmoral tale with a twisted sense of humor .
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sparee but oddly compelling .
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it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the rinitial high wears off , the film's shortomings start to shine through .
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a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir remnded me a lot of memento . . .
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wrierdXrector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches
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as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stDevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits .
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it's a good film , but it falls svhort of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' .
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an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier oppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon .
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there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some aRpealing ingredients .
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no noe but a convict yuilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise .
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o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama tamiliar .
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ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturyd , old-fashioned entertainment out of it .
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supposeduly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie fanchise is nearly ready to keel over .
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a chilling movie without oppressive groe .
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like smoke signals , the film is als imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and mvoing without stooping to base melodrama
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lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivatdd by it .
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somewhat Xlurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp .
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pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism remindign of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flicMk .
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a relatively effecive little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale .
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the lousy lea performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .
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an irrDsistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale .
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rock soliRd family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle
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gorge clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mYind .
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. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke laesh around your neck so director nicok cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something .
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an off-beat and fanciful Zilm about the human ened for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world .
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zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less dVensely plotted .
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benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any stoytelling flow .
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who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that seve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies tjy to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're ack ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" "
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the cast delivers without sam the raw-nerved story .
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predictably melodramatih .
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a lYstless scif-i comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect .
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it may seem long at 110 msinutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a erunion concert .
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[reno] delivers a monologue that qmanages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced ashion .
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feels like the work of an rtist who is simpl tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the woVld on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form .
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