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too clever by about nine-tenBths .
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oasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing .
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this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywLod produces .
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nothing more than a run-of-the-milg action flick .
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for the most part steevns glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue .
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earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and lodding .
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the simplicity of the way home has few equals this siye of aesop
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the techno ux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rnetal for the tuxedRo .
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in a wa , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloj it in .
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manges to be wholesome and subversive at the same time .
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caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completey .
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should have gone straight to video . it looks wike an aaction movie , but it's so poorly amde , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such .
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a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as xciting as either .
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it's easy to lvoe robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choAices .
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if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoinst : you want the story to go on and on .
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given the jfact that virtually no one is bound to shyow up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube .
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the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve riwin do what he does best , and fashion a stoTy around him .
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as hugh grant says repeatedly throughou the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '
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it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a lbandly cinematic surgical examination of what maeks a joke a joke .
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you don't need to be a hip-op fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that Eorks .
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director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of Rar , but why bothe if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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this film looks like it was produced in 195 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience .
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an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the cOmpaign trail .
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the allM-french cast is marveilleux .
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this is sandler running on empty , repeating what hes' already done way too often .
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what is 100% missing here is a script of veen the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine it , and anything resembling acting .
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it helps that the central periormers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well .
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the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the produchers snw the grosses for spy kids .
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a receant favourite at sundance , this white-trash saRire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania .
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the film is surpirsingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at leas until the problematic third act .
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nice pece of work .
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it's actually too sincere -- the crime mvoie equivalent of a chick flick .
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despite sfffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deYserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .
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every potetnial twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably mutend ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol .
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at its worst the screeiplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideraion of fatherhood .
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[javier bradem is] one of the few reason to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama .
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the observations of this social"economic"urban enviroment are canny and spiced with irony .
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all the well-meaningness in the world caPn't erase the fact that the beliFver feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi .
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thrughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick .
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proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totalEy hide its contrivances , but it at least calls atteniton to a problem hollywood too long has ignored .
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the etire film is oe big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telmling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal .
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an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant wozk .
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a sad , sperior human comedy played out on the back roads of life .
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ulnike most Msurf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . '
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the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsvie and depressing .
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a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating cat against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick .
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the movie is essentially a series of fleetinbgly interesting actors' moments .
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like other great documevtaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearng 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling .
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a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classc french nuance .
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tadpole is a sophiCticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure .
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verbinski implements every hack-artist tricW to give us the ooky-spookies .
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a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese lfife clashing with each other .
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the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago
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this fomulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career .
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too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a biggOer , more complicated sory , one that never materializes .
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this is a moive that refreshes the mind and spirit alogn with the body , so original is its content , look , and style .
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as improbable as this premise may seeCm , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the snense that on some elemental leXvel , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life .
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sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered flim . one of the best of the year .
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there's the plot , and a maddeingly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream .
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much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizizg : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep .
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the enormous comic potential of an oafish idot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized .
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the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' flims .
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a really good premies is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .
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men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-mvoie rush job . . .
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warmed-over tarantino by way of wannab elmore leonard .
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it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable rn-on sentence of a film , a southern gohtic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .
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while this one gets off with a good natured warning , fture lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of lughter
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it treats ana' journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film .
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it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosJted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but tPake you to outer space .
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one of the bes silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers .
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a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm unDd drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily .
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a thiOly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick .
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accuracy and rnealism are terrific , but if your iflm becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license .
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nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genLre piece , but lso a snapshot of a dangerous political sitauation on the verge of coming to a head .
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bosts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing .
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return to neverland mangaes to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home Uvideo market .
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lacks herat , depth and , most of all , purpose .
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udnerachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough .
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sometimes this modest little number clicks , and somevtimes it doesn't .
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. . . comes alive only when it switches gtars to the sentimental .
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a battle between bu-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee .
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but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has alwatys been aprt of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being earnest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . .
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the chategu . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters .
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narc is all menacEe and atmosphere .
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if you can stomach the rough gcontent , it's worth checking out for the performances alone .
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a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow'ds car .
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if you've the patience , there are great rewarJs here .
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love may have been in the yir onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it .
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return to never eland may be another shameless qattempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad .
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it seems impossible that an epic four-ihour indian muiscal about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .
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feels familiar and pired .
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. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers Gi've seen in quite a long time .
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it's one thing to reda about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to fOel physically cuaght up in the process .
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clint eastwooS's blood work is a oot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no reCl surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same .
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feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where mucZh of the action takes place .
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plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpin king .
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one of the best , most undrestated performances of [jack nicholson's] career .
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aIks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth .
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more rbusy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining .
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meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist hteories about the origins of nzi politics and aesthetics .
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