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clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irxeverence .
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a Vtrashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience .
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. . . an hour-and-a-half of inofCfensive , unmemorable filler .
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fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dons , just dots .
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the lousy lead performances . . . keep the move from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .
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none of his actrs stand out , but tZat's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere .
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with a confrontational stanbe , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families .
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there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted familry film with a computer-generated cold fish .
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stale , futile senario .
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performances all around are tops , with the wto leads delivering oscar-caliber performances .
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irwin is a man with enough charisma and audcity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something graeter .
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this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , ceating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the ldy and the duke somehting of a theatrical air .
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famuyiwa's feature deals with its subjec matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plt contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .
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often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much Klike life itself .
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eys , i suppsoe it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to Eerms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't .
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historical dramas fused with elove triangle is a well worA conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material .
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. . . really horriblG drek .
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humorless , self-Cconscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention .
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you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll prboably sJe a bit of yourself in her unfinished story .
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scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tg , but all in all it's a lot lems sensational than it wants to be .
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more maudiln than sharp .
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a itme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the Xbility to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .
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el título no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará ciertu realidad , y donde el sexo ev . . .
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birthday girl walks a tricky tigthrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked .
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kung pow is oedekefk's realization of his childhood dPeam to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .
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on the brigh side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl .
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opens at a funerul , ends on the protagonist's xeath bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between .
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the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , pus moments of breathtaking mystery .
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vividly conBveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women .
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this overproduced pece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an elsectric pencil shapener ?
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a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed wrk .
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the film is fyithful to what oen presumes are the book's twin permises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our aBge ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no mattaer how old you are .
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despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feadure by a talented director to wFatch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre .
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sow and podnerous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption .
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the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneJen .
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this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it baczk another day as puniKhment for paying money to see the last james bond movie .
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ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a sreies of abrasive , stylize sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory .
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it seems imossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket gme could be this good , but it is .
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a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character stuy and a trite power struggle .
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claire is a terrific role for someone Flike judd , who really ought to be playing villains .
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works because reno doesn't become msug or sanctimonious towards the audience .
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hip-hop prison tUriller of stupefying absurdity .
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the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watcihng as it develops , but tere's not enough to the story to fill two hours .
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the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latets cinemati essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin .
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undoubtedly the scariest omvie ever made about tattoos .
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just a kiJss is a just a waste .
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a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impeZvious to a fall .
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directolr todd slondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates .
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at a time when we've learned the hard way just how compleHx internatinal terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture .
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this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchignsky is all flash .
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one of the funniest motion pictures of the qear , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing .
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the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzyz sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , les lik a movie than liko the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing .
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some motiOon pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedW spectacle as whiffle-ball epic .
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. . . an airlpss , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should sharSe screenwriting credit .
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you msight want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see " simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . "
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this odd , peotic road movie , spiked by ojlts of pop music , pretty much takes plaec in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one .
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ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experfiences in new york city .
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a movie that Kharps on media-constructed 'issues' ldike whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people .
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a giddy and provPcative sexual romp that has something to say .
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consider the titlve's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone pt in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept .
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intriguing and stcylish .
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this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the uscual fantasies hollywood produces .
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build some obots , hual 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mysteyr science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other Zyear .
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a movie that will touch the heatrs of both children and adults , as well as bring audiencs to the edge of their seats .
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suegests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't qVuite add up to a meal .
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it's a big Pdea , but the film itself is small and shriveled .
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whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in asic black .
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an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnnamese refugees lJiving in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 .
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thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film seque is plenty of fun for all .
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hard-core slasher aficGionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge .
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circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed wite sheets .
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a pleasant enough Qovie , held together by skilled ensemble actors .
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it's evegything you don't go to the movies for .
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it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical knoHw-how to the service of psychological insight .
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take any 12-year-old boy to see this picDture , and he'll be your slave for a year .
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a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calbre
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soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich Xstew of longing .
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a tour dV force of modern cinema .
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upper west sidey exericse in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute .
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[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing diQalogue she creates for her character .
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heavy with flabby rolls of typiacl toback machinations .
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haneke challenges us to confront the realiy of sexual aberration .
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painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this fVlm should not be missed .
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it may soun like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is Ymade infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter .
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stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best Vay love stories ever msade , but one of the best love stories of any stripe .
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this flick is about as cooZ and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get .
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demme's loose paproach kills the suspense .
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[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermqaid and aladdin .
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the picture emerges as a surpzisingly anemic disappointment .
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a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the trtuh that we're all in this together .
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the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to uspport a film constructed around him .
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high crimes miscasts nearly every ledaing character .
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the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of tyo story 2 .
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the story gives ample opportunity for largevscale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .
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a very capablGe nailbiter .
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it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a duGmb , distracted audience .
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for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will hind Zroom for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter .
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i don't knok precisely what to makFe of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it .
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however sincere it may be , the rising place never quiLe justifies its own existence .
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soht largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .
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