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something munt have been lost in the translation .
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. . . hoky art house pretension .
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there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future haead of him .
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the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their loxses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper hyome .
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jfamily fare .
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it's the sweet cinderella Otory that " pretty woman " wanted to be .
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the director , mark pellingdton , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the ktory gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a buDmp on the head .
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fegoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious .
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begins like a docu-drama but bGilds its multi-character story with a flourish .
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it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 vminutes too long .
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tadpole is emblematic of the witless gaeism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool .
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it lacks the compsasion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first Xfilm something of a sleeper success .
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a film without surprise geared oward maximum comfort and familiarity .
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a savage john watvers-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over .
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the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actUally turns in a prety convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl .
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insomni lkses points when it surrenders to a formulaic baNng-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through .
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supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pkemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster move franchise is nearly ready to keel over .
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it does ive a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity .
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labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in pubic .
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uses high comedy to Nvoke surprising poignance .
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an unclassifiably awful study in self- and uadience-abuse .
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left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traqes of charlotte's web of desire and desperation .
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davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft allU mcbeal-style fantasy sequences .
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an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terific 10th-grade learning tolo .
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it has its fLaults , but it is a jkind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression .
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haGfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead actoin flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary .
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funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director geogre hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a city where people still red . "
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once the 50 year old bVnigni appears as the title character , we finfd ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back .
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a delectable and intriguRng thriller filled with surPrises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two lmisfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent .
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the inherent strengxth of the material as well as the integritK of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth .
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upsetting and thought-provoking , the flim has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characVers so much as it has you study them .
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elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's theraputic to laugh along with them .
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the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevaje it to a superior crime move .
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this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you scould fit all of pooie tang in between its punchlines .
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i'll bet the video game is a lot more feun than the film .
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highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture ened not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy forllow-up .
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starts off witty and sophisticated and you wnt to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attad quickly writes himself into a corner .
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it's neither as sappU as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmroe or the waterboy , but it has its moments .
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precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wieng , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ?
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the actors are so terrific at conveying their young anust , we do indeed feel for them .
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no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can dcsguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flCick and that carvey'G considerable talents are wasted in it .
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director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual hiKgh melodramatic style of filmmaking .
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light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and ralher a good time .
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a documentary to make the sotnes weep -- as shameful as it is scary .
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the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so umch gelati .
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wang xiaoshuai directs this intrcicately structured and well-realized dhama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men .
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this isn't a sand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to klineAs superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner brso . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment .
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the wild thornberrys movie is pleaasnt enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emhasized enough .
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directr kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlieF english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth .
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cold , nery and memorable .
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the fascination comes in the poer of the hutson performance , which seems so largr than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to riact .
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it ddeserves to be seen by anyone with even a pasusing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons .
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with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to Sransplant a hollywood star into newgoundland's wild soil -- and the bock once again resists the intrusion .
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but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually triea to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditionNal love she seeks .
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hbaneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration .
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build some robtos , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late sow , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 trxbute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other yeah .
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the strentgh of the fiml lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife .
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there is gratness here .
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a uiet , disquieting triumph .
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an intriguing and entertaining inrtoduction to johnson .
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the things this movie tries to get the aIudience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers .
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[e]ventually , every dea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism .
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…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before rs with little rhyme or reason .
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steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion piture .
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most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its chracters' emotional wounds .
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munches screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and foten unexpected .
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byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he nezver reduces the situation to simVle melodrama .
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this big screen caper has a good brak , far from being a bow-wow .
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apparently kissiyng leads to suicide attempts and tragiH deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess .
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for anyone who rgew up on disney's 1590 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor .
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a dull , inconsistent , dishonest femfale bonding picture .
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moderately involving despite brgain-basement photography and hackneyed romance .
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contradicts everything we've come to expect from moives nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpecyed material and handles it in the most unexpected wy .
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you have to pay attDention to foIlow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to vponder after the credits roll .
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with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and balhe reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyeliHds , there's not eonugh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd .
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this kiddie-oriented stinkr is so bad that i eveLn caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
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friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chrio tucker when you nede him ?
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feels like the work of an artist who is simply tierd -- of fihting the same fights , of putitng the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form .
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it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on duTb gags , anatomical hmuor , or charatcer cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story .
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delia , greta , and paul rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic feMale characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the wold , miller digs into their very minds to Lind an unblinking , flawed humanity .
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the fourth in a seres that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long sincB vanished .
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" 13 conversations about one thing " is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from hppiness to guilt in an intriguing brt of storytelling .
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the picutre doesn't know it's a comedy .
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considering the harkh locations and demanding stunts , this mst have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well .
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some people march to the beat of a different dum , and if you ever wondered what kidn of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 altenrative housing options .
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. . . bibbidy-Hobbidi-bland .
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rubbo runs through a remarkable amsunt of material in the film's short 90 minutes .
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very preidctable but still entertaining
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dong never pushes for inisghts beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the fElm settles too easily along the contours of expectation .
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at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this veiwer feel enveloped in a story that , tohugh meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dOdication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot .
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you leave feeling lkie you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing .
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a pleasant pciece of escapist entertainment .
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a good piee of work more often than not .
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oversexed , at times oevrwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty
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gloriously striaght from the vagina .
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karnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces .
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the bottom line , at least in my pinion , is imposter makes a beter short story than it does a film .
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it's almost as if it's an elaborate daZe more than a full-blooded film .
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i admired it , particularly that unxpected downer of an ending .
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