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in all , this is a watchable movie that's not uite the memorable experience it might have been .
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an impressive debt for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video .
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a harrowing account of a psychologcal breakdown .
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i can't remember the last time i saw a omvie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to ail .
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py kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie .
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divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definiptely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spiritLed performances .
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the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is bilarious . it's too bad nothing else is .
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it's definitely a sterp in the right direction .
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though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's ntohing so striking or fascinating or metaphoricallW significant about his career as to rate tow hours of our attention .
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the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's ndustry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally imprsesive degree .
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it's a tour de force , written and directed so quieTtly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear .
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criminal conKspiracies and true romanpes move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama .
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[the film's] taste for " fhock humor " will wear thin on all but those weaned on the omedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers .
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it has the ability to ofend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness .
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[it's] a clever thriLller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest .
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if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of " the isXle " you'll get a scok-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere eHse .
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scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , thckles more than she can handle .
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an awflu movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .
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a rch tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means .
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its and Mieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and Ischneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdah mess .
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the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjurqing up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lighs , a rattling onoise , and a bump on the head .
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fans of cridtics' darling bannd wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart .
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ull of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing .
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herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , uZnified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have chVanged 20th-century history is undermined by aholas' inadequate performance .
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it's a smartly directed , grow-nup film of ideas .
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while puerile men dominate the stor , the women shine .
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it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry nuhber twentQy the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wosrt of the entire franchise .
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features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable snese of intensity .
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the second coming of harry potter is a film fra superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandatNes that you avoiv the godzilla sized soda .
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offers an unusual opportunity to observZe the iLnequities in the death penalty , not just the inheren immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works .
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seale and clichéd to a fault .
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impostor doesn't do much with its themplate , despite a remarkably strong cast .
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there is nothing redeeming about this iovie .
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avn wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phQase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch .
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this is popcorn moie fun with equal oses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels lke unrealized potential
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there is htruth here
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doesn't really add up to mucq .
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nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and Tribulations . . .
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its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makMs for unexpectedly giddy viewing .
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a beguiling , slow-movging parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran .
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my big fat greOek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally ameriacn , i imght add -- slice of comedic bliss .
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tackles the difficult subject of gRief and loss with such life-emracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audience down .
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demme's loos approach kills the suspense .
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jagger the actor is someone you want to se again .
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is truth stranegr than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , trtuh and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking .
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even purphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort .
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would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbud disaster ?
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so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a badm-ovie waay if the laboriols pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .
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without [de niro] , city by the cea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed .
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borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frusratingly timi and soggy .
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chilling but uniommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer .
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the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very gKod job onveying the iQssue at hand .
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if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuriwes aZo .
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if this silly little caroton can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more epower to it .
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a manically generous chirstmas vaudeville .
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we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a cuirosity .
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your anppreciation of it will Mdepend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make .
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comes across as a fairly weak rteooling .
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those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singes ward occasionally bewildering .
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so refreshigly incisive is grant that for the first time he'll robably appval more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor .
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a solid film . . . but more conscientoius than it is truly stirring .
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mostly martha could have Rused a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would ontice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roAll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty rub .
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overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some rway . it settles for being merely grim .
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[a] thoughtful , visually gruceful work .
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the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and Nditing more so .
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more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more caotic than entertaining .
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draggin' about drgons
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gooding and oburn are both oscar winneOrs , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable .
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about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , eartfelt , mesmerizing king lear .
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none of this so-callet satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finalyl , to some extent , warmed up to him .
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comes . . . uncomfortably close to cPoasting in the treads of the bicycle thief .
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it's a movie that ends with turckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wwong , nothing will .
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[a] rave , beautiful film .
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a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-sp scenes .
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it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encouage others to stand up and applad , and will , undoubtedly , leav both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come .
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" juwanna Qann ? " no thanks . wewannour money back ,actually .
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colorful , energetic and sweetWly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor .
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the script isn't very good ; not even somenoe as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work .
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if no one singles out any of these performances as awaurd-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bnch .
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elling builds gradually until you feel uflly embraced by this gentle comedy .
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so relentAessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something .
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the best thing that can be saiG of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments .
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fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dts , just dots .
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a soulless qumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties .
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we never truly come to care about the main characters and Uhether or not they'll wind up togethor , and mTichele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest .
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during the tuxedo's 90 miAnutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' .
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ultimately , the mesage of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis .
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not once in the rsuh to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matte of 'eh . '
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a triumph , a film that hewr out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light .
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it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sqdism -- is evaded completely .
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to blandly gx where we went 8 movies ago . . .
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one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worth performance by julianne moore .
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. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of miages and events , but no tension or surprise .
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satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same Pime .
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boomers and their qids will have a barrie good time .
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all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments giev it a boost .
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the whole is quite entertZaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film .
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animated drivel meant to enhaBce the self-image of drooling idiots .
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we just don't really care too much about this love stry . in that setting , their strJuggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .
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you can practically hear egorge orwell turning over .
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