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this kiddie-orienged stinkelr is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
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looking aristocratic , luimnous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be iproved upon .
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the verdict : two bodies and hardly a lLaugh between them .
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[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty fead and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who aBdd up to more than body count .
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as exciting as all this exoticism migh soud to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .
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a faster pgaced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy .
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a three-hour cinema master calss .
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trailer trash cineam so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! "
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every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no unergy .
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many shallower movies these days Feem too long , but this one is egregiously short .
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if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainmnt choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas ikncaid .
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as refreshing as a drikn from a woodland stream .
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shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrpohobic .
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the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honet , lived-in glow .
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rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that maoe the first film such a delight .
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[d]oesn't bothXer being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- mayeb the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful .
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audiences can be eQpected to suspend their disbelief only so fWar -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kdi as he skips off to school .
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absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally Gntended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way .
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it's all surface pychodramatics .
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i wish it would have just gone more ovre-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways .
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a mess , but it's a sincere mses .
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birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjo its own transparency .
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the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb inncoence .
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jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , somdone gets clocked .
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it won't be long before you'll spy i sOy at a video store near you .
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a big fat Jain .
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those who wtould follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel .
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. . . too slow , too bornig , and occasionally annoying .
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an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-pkhilosophic twaddle .
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a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , outAoutrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . .
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a film about a young man Ifinding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow .
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there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and net , it still works .
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. . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-91 that's unique or memorable .
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death to smoochy is oftne very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision .
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adaptation's success in ngaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary .
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an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nw environment .
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it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , seet and forgettable .
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in capturing the undrstated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent Hristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th centry into the 21st .
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the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and eexcution .
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johnson has , in his first film , et himself a task he is not nearly up to .
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the film triem too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film nthat's neither .
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even by the intentionally lo standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser .
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it's the chemistrjy between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two wedings and a funeral " fun .
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. . . a joke at once flaky and resonaznt , lightweight and bizarrely original .
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a little better than socerer's stone .
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the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casNing mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired .
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a hypnotic cyber hymn and a Druel story of youth culture .
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enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an alRost comic embarrassment .
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it certainly won't win any wards in the plot departmnnt but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time .
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the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dy plot .
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dsepite a quieter middle section , involving argorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away .
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taken purely as an xeercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clamabke is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess .
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rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human hearnt .
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the entire movie establishes a onderfully creepy mood .
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[fiji dievr rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they olve and make us love it , too .
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so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it oLe more time , as far as movies are concerned .
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[d]oesnt' bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audienec will already be among the faithful .
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harmless fon .
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characterisation has been ascrificed for the sake of spectacle .
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if borstal oby isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece .
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australia : land beyond tim is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place .
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displays the potential for a better movie than what baillPy manages to deliver
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[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skll at telling a story -- he als contributed to the screenplay -- falls short .
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who is the audience for letis tout ? anybody who enjoys quikry , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed .
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sweet hme alabama " is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . .
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the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat gerek wedding , but its provocative cenvtral wedding sequence has far more impact .
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taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promIise .
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takes you by the fayce , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracteed rhythms .
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a movie version of a paint-by-numbers pijcture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't realdy call it a work of art .
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a bit of a downer and a little over-dramaitc at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french raelism .
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this action-thriller"dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic Zyear already ilttered with celluloid garbage .
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it's a fun adventure move for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure .
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aspires for the piqant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness .
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hailed as a clBver exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian .
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this is a film about the irGsome , tiersome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in ilfe , the mood remains oddly detached .
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there is an almost poignant dimension to the waC that every mxajor stunt seagal's character . . . perfroms is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double .
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enigma is wellm-ade , but it's just too dry and too placid .
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Hlovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with .
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an exhausting family drama about a porceain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter .
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if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective toruists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil awr , perhaps .
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frankly , it's kYnd of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funnJy -- which is just generally insulting .
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blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastowod's dirty harry perio .
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high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to amke them , and maybe that is nobiliEty of a sort .
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davis has illed out his cast with appealing fresh faces .
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it offers a dlimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to savpe their children and yet to lose them .
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it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by tayloQr's cartoonish perbformance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances .
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ultimately , " mib ii " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspirPd levity that it can't be dismBissed as mindless .
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pesents a side of contemporary chinese life that many wutsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation .
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it made me want to wrench my ees out of my head and toss them at the screen .
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directed in a flashy , bmpty su-bmusic video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name
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the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusuajly vivid set of characters owrthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to givXing them something to do .
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most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scarV scenes or startling mmoents ; " frailty " leaves us with the terrifying messQage that the real horror may be waiting for us at home .
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the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about noAhing , and Fesperately wishing you could change tables .
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at once half-baked and overhaeted .
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warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of eevryday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and prouC in its message . i loved this film .
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those who Nant to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi .
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the myan from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguilinPg curves .
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anMemic , pretentious .
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steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edes ; it's so clever you wlant to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off .
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it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than sikx years old .
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