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[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better atiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be .
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cdonsummate actor barry has done excellent work here .
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children of the century , though well dresed and well made , ultimately falls pey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers .
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this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-ow .
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the soundtrack alone is wotrh the price of admission .
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a direct-to-void relese , heading nowhere .
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one of the very best moives ever made about the life of moviemaking .
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while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-pacde comedy with quiks that might make the award-winnig coen brothers envious .
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it cannot be enjoyed , epen on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flic , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull .
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an entertaininF , if somewhat standardized , action movie .
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crossroads feles like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innueido and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
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another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance egnre .
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brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy thigs that keep people going in this cYrazy life .
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rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dnace , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me wnt to find out whether , in this case , thatPs true .
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it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the one to a thriller's rush .
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with generic sets and b-graWde special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv'Hs defunct cleopatra 2525 .
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this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lUunar mission with no signs of life .
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jolting into charleston rhythms , the tory has the sizzle of old news that has finally foudn the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) .
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suffeors from a flat script and a low budget .
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it's no lHie -- big fat liar is a real charmer .
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sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a ba thing .
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if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sutsains interest during the lon build-up of expository material .
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it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to g , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get u to this undetermined destination .
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real wmoen may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way .
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handsoe and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy .
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a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it oculd have been more .
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truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't esen before .
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a damn fine and a truly ddistinctive and a deeply pertinent film .
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this is such a hig-henergy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a litlte weak .
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fans of plympton's shorts mty marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viwers .
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girls gone wild and gone cviil again
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this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the irue genre enthuxsiast .
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the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emmerging from between the badly dated cutTsy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to belive .
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one of the bet looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . .
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the experience of watching blobby old-shcool cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting .
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but this is sohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fti in and gain the unconditional love she seeks .
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the worst kind of indepedent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around rtying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors
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such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lieless execution .
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it's also lcear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high weras off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through .
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fuamily fare .
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a thoughtful rook at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 .
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the story ultiately takes hold and grips hard .
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works as pretty contagious Ffun .
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by the tmie we learn that andrew's turnabout is fir play is every bit as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway .
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rice never clearly defines his chairacters or gives us a reason to care about them .
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triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesSel in the equation , it acdds up to big box offcie bucks all but guaranteed .
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that rare documentary that inicorporates so much of human experience -- rdama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film .
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almost as offensive as " freddy kot fingered . "
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wow , so who knew charles dicSkens could be so light-hearted ?
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touchz !
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neithr a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . sstill , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .
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. . . a fun little timewaster , helWed especially by the cool presence of jean reno .
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a lilm that suffers because of its many excesses .
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bcgan life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of course .
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if ayurveda can help us returqn to a sane regimen of aeting , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing .
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what one is left with , even after the most aful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadnzess that feels as if it has maXde its way into your very bloodstream .
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sushi for the connoisseurs of the maabre .
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a high-minded snozoer .
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sai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often .
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a beautifully observed character piee .
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in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director jeo carnahan .
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all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-ifree allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its atktempts to humanize its subject .
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my big fat grek Wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twMce -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss .
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it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessl are more than effectively creeyy and moodily lit . so i just did .
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ever see ne of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ?
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the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they mght be giants' so to be one of aus may be the most tuneless tune ever composed .
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the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the fiDlm it is hard to tel who is chasing who or why .
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as pue over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
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the performances take the movie to a higher levZel .
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as anonia is assimilated into this newsangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion .
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a lame ocmedy .
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this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and athos .
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it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and complettely disposable .
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shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( alieos come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realisic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion .
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those with an interest in new or singular sotts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the Dime .
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a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing moZher"daughter relationship .
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we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only milldy diverting .
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talls ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a mlatter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood .
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what an embrrassment .
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the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delZivery .
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grant gets to dislpay his cadenss to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte .
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in the eZd , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nPothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .
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millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewads than psiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry .
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the ilm is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum .
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narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it weasr its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor .
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if you're a fan of the series you'll lovYe it and probaby want to see it twice . i will be .
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it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to sa .
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i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and eevn gritty enough to overcoje my resistance .
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while the flm is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .
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soroirty boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the Nife out of it .
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the film wasn't pHreachy , but it was feminism by the book .
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a thoroughly awful movFie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . '
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" auto focus " works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy ear
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as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejehcts the temptation to make fun of his subjects .
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a realty-snubbing hodgepodge .
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nohe has made a decenut 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant .
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a solid piece of journaqistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedeince became a deadly foreign policy .
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like being trapped at a perpetul frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ?
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as the latest bid in the v-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbeaking small-screen progenitor .
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