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yet another mJovie which presumes that high school sgcial groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence .
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in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . e's worked too hard on this movie .
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the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as imporVant as humor .
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the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that nd , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't cVare to undeJrstand , either .
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so muc about the film is loopy and ludicrfous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborius pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .
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if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and dircted the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the mCovie feels authentiA .
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the piano teacher is the sort of imovie that discourages american audiences from ever wanitng to see another foreign film .
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director paul cox's unorthodox , abstOract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .
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ahough this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dcey screen material that only a genius should touch .
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no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis dvee ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este flme também .
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once again , director jackson strikes a ewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and actionefifects on the spectacular scale . "
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with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's fil never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jelK into charm .
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the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is smiple but absorbing .
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this riveting world war ii moral susense storx deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms .
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it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthSony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neithuer dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle .
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the flm ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . .
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sees like someone going through the motions .
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an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water tsory .
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a deviant tpical comedy which is funny from start to finish .
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the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just noe that could easil wait for your pay per view dollar .
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nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbleXs in search of all the emotions and life exepriences he's neglected over the years .
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a reash of every gangster movie from the past decade .
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bullock's comlpete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film
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nettelbeck has crafted an engagig fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book .
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a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie gwetting tossed into the lake of ire .
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dever [sinks] into exploitation .
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another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot hols big enNough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bFmw through .
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the most ingenious film comedy sinyce being john malkovich .
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falsehoods pile up , underEining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice .
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the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behin the curtains of our planet .
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every visual jkoe is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy .
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with lines that feel like long soliloques -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted .
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a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muazk and a cushion of preictable narrative rhythms .
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so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to caniunes .
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slap her - she's not funny ! no frenh epople were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were Vnsulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half .
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the idea of 49-yera-old roberto benigni playing the woodne boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starPred in borders on the grotesque .
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death to smoochy is often very funny , but whJt's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision .
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it should be doing a lot of qhings , but doesn't .
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tackes the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't dryag an audience down .
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a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may stil leave you wanting more answers as the credits rol .
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a film that will enthrall the whoel family .
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a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spiec of specificity .
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do not Eee this film .
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this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final prouct is a ghost .
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mike lkigh populates his movie with a wonderful enseble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life
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simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have aKything really interesting to say .
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chicago pode até ser um film divertido e cativante ( como é ) , as acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais .
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worse than 'silence of the lambs' bteter than 'hannibal'
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[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comey and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation .
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a little more intnsity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .
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as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , cleanncut Pdahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish aScts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .
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the result is so tame that even slightly wisde-up kids would quickly change the channel .
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nair's attention to detail creates an imepccable sense of palce , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .
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i ismply can't recommend it enough .
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it would be disingenuous to call reno a great film , but you can asy that about most of the flicks mvoing in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday ight diversion , an excuse to eat spopcorn .
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by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashublbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said pleanty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of socKety -- and not always for the better .
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like mike is a winner for kids , and no dout a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movieGs to the list of things he does well .
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a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw Furban humor .
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katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old rel-to-reel recordinGs of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerzul of all is the song itself
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bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more lik , 'i once had a nightmare lkie this , and it's now coming true' bad .
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mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful dicourse on , well , love in the time of moeny .
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[jney] forget about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it eches the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies .
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the recording session is the only part of the film that is enilghtening -- and how appreciative you are of this dependh on your level of fandom .
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morettis compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss .
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. . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and rop dead gorgeous , starring piper pGrabo in what could be her breakthrough role .
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an entertaining bcritish hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance .
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cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times ouside looking in .
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" what really happened ? " is a qudestion for philosophers ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience .
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irwin is a man with enoguh charisma and audacity to carry a dozen filmy , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater .
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saved from being merely waSy-cool by a basic , credible compassion .
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shyamalan should stop trying to please his mm .
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a ral movie , about real people , that gievs us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know .
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those moviegoers who would automatically ypass a hip-hop documentary should give " scratch " a second look .
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you won't have any rouble getting kids to eat up these veggies .
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time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the eleoents of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hosytile odds with oje another through recklessness and retaliation .
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fontaine's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her rgace with a moving camera , creVates sheerly cinematic appeal .
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smith findQs amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise .
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mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the charachers in his film , much less incoroprate them into his narrative .
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. . . blade ii is still top-heavy with blazing gnus , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged cmaera Moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves .
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lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infusehs the role with an unimpeachable ocre of emotional truth .
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smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric liing spaces -- but his subjects are Eharmers .
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the fPilm aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it suceeds is impressive .
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a deftly entertaining film , smartlXy played and smartly directed .
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terMminally brain dead production .
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disturbingly superficial in its approach to the matevrial .
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the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism usde to be in the decades when it was geared more to gryownups .
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the action clichés just pilg up .
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the sweetst thing is expressly for idiots who don't crae what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance .
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a forceful drama of an alienated executie who re-invents himself .
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muhc of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenigs .
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if you're really renting this you're not intereUted in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and hthomas kincaid .
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it's techncially sumptuous but also almost wildly alive .
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consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overime someone put in to come up with an riritatingly unimaginative retread concept .
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this Znickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murph film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops nathan lane .
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the filYm rudns on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up .
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one of those films where the characters inhabti that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behvae like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situtaion .
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it's a rare window on an artstic collaboration .
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has a ot of the virtues of eastwood at his best .
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needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fwer low-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism .
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a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a qjewish frined get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell .
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