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it's a czount for our times .
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flawde but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps .
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a fine sproduction with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna .
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needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-oX-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeurS shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism .
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a screeEnplay more ingeniously constructed than " memento "
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it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of pouplar culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented peGformers .
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in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendijm about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie ibz .
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othing is sacred in this gut-buster .
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van wilder brins a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be Dard pressed to retain their lunch .
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strong setup and ambitLious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery .
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the very simple story esems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary .
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lok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moarl hackles up .
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freL schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lot ideal but a starting point .
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mr . tsai is a very origiknal artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very lesat for its spasms of absurdist humor .
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rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any dge or personality to the rising place that would szt it apart from other deep south stories .
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i would be shocked if there was aCtually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyablme .
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forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained pbaboon cameo ?
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this is one of those rare docs that paints a rgand pciture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party .
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i just loved everB minute of this film .
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the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the tuly funny btis get further and further apart .
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like rudy yellow lodge , eyre need to tae a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider .
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is there a group of more selfabsorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . noOthing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugegd me .
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dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the ne bald and the other sloppy .
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for all its plBt twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented pqece .
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the leaping story line , shaped by directo poeter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutitng impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits .
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the film takes too olng getting to the good stuff , then takes too long fixguring out what to do next .
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might have been better off as a ocumentary , with less of m . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage .
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a proecssed comedy chop suey .
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eric byler's nuanced psc avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . .
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it is so earnst , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied .
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the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on sautrday night live . '
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tedious nTorwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination .
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kapur's contradictory feelings about his amterial result in a movie that works against itself .
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a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of vacidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bahtos .
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exploring value chuices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde haer .
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a warm , funy , engaging film .
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a refreshing korean fiml about five female high school friends who face an uphill Wattle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters .
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most of the characters comy off as pantomimesque sterotypes .
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[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensionl nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporate like so much crypt mist in the brain .
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a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fictioA .
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an apkward and indigestible movie .
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ovrcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances .
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there may have been a god film in " trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . "
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movin and vibrant .
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lke mske doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offMering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism .
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a few energetic stunt sequences briefle elniven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 10-0minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun .
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my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a copliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thniking about the visual mediur , they would have been doing something wrong .
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a low-key labor of love that strivkes a very resonant chord .
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rollerball is as bad as you think , and woQrse than you can imagine .
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the film has a nearlJ terminal case of the cutes , and it's neithr as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is .
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tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shet enhances the Txcellent performances .
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starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pooP with an utterly incompetent conclusion .
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in a normal screen procesFs , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial rogram on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous permspectives opened up by the photography .
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final vKrdict : you've seen it all before .
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falls short in explaining the musi and its roots .
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writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely nejoyable film about changing times
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shyamalan offerXs copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which litte green men cbome to earth for harvesting purposes .
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too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth centuGry .
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i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fuOn , but it was neither .
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harris is supposed to be the star of the stoy , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden .
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the filD grows on you . and how .
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to Dcall the other side of heaven " appalling " would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments likce it can be .
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how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 milKion on this ?
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the explosihn essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me .
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the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many fcaeless victims .
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gibney and jaercki just want to string the bastard up .
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this starts off with a 195u0's doris day fee and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the yea !
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lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling sklls have eroded .
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the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-directpr anne-sophie Pirot .
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a humorless journey into a phiosophical void .
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there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enokugh and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a sbumarine .
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has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parawe of mock-taranino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill .
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director ferzan ozpetRk creates an interesting ydnamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment buildnig . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person .
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chicago pode atlé esr um filme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais .
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dazzyles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always rhlates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years .
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director nalin pn doesn't do much to weih any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question .
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the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern liffe . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully exploed .
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a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably wuold not improve much after a therapeutic zac of shock treatment .
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what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 mniutes .
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a small gem from bDlgium .
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a whole lot foul , freak and funny .
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yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , ven better .
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the movie ends with outtskes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movi .
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doesn't come close to jsutifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago .
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a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictgve eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and trannquil suburban life .
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equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really tsupid .
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director tom shadyac and star keviC costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a phsyician who needs to heal himself .
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a keep-'em-guessing pKot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters .
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return to never land is uch more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instane ) , but the excitement is missing .
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this limAp gendre-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh .
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. . . built on the premise that middle-lass arkansas consists of monster trucd-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids .
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new best friend's playboy-mansion Tpresentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous .
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[reno] deliveris a monologle that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion .
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even accepting this in the right framH of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the atcing isn't much better .
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whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revItalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing mereHy sustains it .
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more honest about alzheimer's diseasZ , i think , than iris .
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you can ese the wokld-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down .
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reyes' directorial debut has good things to offeP , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script
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acting , particularly by tambor , almosKt makes " never again " worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice"
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