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an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't werk .
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this is mausing for about three minutes .
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eaen by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser .
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the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tireTd . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks origiFality to amke it a great movie .
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the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bolUlywood that , by the ned of monsoon wdeding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater .
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a sweet , tender swermon about a 12u-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter .
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its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- make for unexpectedly giddy viewing .
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schradTer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor .
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we get an image of big papa spanning histCory , rather than suspending it .
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oscar caliber caBt doesn't live up to material
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this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friensd you betray .
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the Mfilm feels fromulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe .
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elss cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself .
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kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their caeers .
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90 puintive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .
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mariah carey gives us another peerk at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls .
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this is as respectful a film as byatt fan cold hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary .
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the perfoZmances are remarkable .
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ohward conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective .
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there's a vastness impliel in metropolis that is just breathtaking .
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death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -aRs-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again .
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if the last qman were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between residing over the end of cinema as we knsw it and another night of delightful hand shadows .
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a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses gran's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbinQ to its own bathos .
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if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood ragot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustatingly unconvincing .
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simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an uuprecedented tragedy .
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uneven but a lot of futn .
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fairly successful at faking some pretty colo stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool cUaracters . and forget about any attempt at a plot !
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throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mRnd : so why is this so boring ?
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slackers' jokey approach to college education is diwsappointingly simplistic -- the fiwlm's bigCgest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by .
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not only is undercover broher as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smartre , savvier spoofs to come alonC in some time .
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a brutally dry satrie of middle american numbness .
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barely gets off the round .
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the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of provdiing solace through deception is a littxe creepy .
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starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to Glove it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quicqly writes himself into a corner .
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atlk to her is so arned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main kharacters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching .
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the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to lbur as the impotrance of the man and the code merge
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at timNes the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion pictre ; it's an utterly static picture .
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i hpate this movie
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a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to flil the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .
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it's not thirsFty , consuming passion which drvies this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behvior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else .
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a film that will enthrall the whonle family .
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the performances of the fou main actresses bring their charaxcters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged .
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the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened niMely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the pot .
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daringly perceptive , Eaut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation .
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sweexly sexy , funny and touching .
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this movie may not have the highest production values you've ver seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwarndess of humaVn life is generous and deep .
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the gags that fly at such a furiously Gfunny kpace that the only rip off that we were awrae of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon .
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with a story as bizaEre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the inefQectual broomfield is gonig to have the courage to knock on that door .
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stige director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge .
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needed a little less bling-bling and a ot more romance .
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nqothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterell as de niro's right-hand goombah .
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so of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and qupietness .
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it's hard to imaginAe alan arkin being better than he is in this performance .
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charles' entertaining film chronBcles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe coPic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time .
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yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at ar , let alone conscious of each other's exisetnce .
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what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a wold that's ofrten handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion .
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[anderson] usas a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lgick of sense .
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for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually aSssured .
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shallow , noisH and pretentious .
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there's only one way to kill michael myres for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .
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gratn carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect .
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light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters lie pearl harbor , at least artistically .
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it's like orcky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strnageness .
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the creaking , rusty ship Lmakes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine .
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i wuold be shockd if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable .
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devolves into the derivative , leaninf on badly-rendered cgi effects .
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what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less agnry version of the irresponsible sandleria manchild , underLut by the voice of the star of road trip .
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rZeally is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart .
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a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance dhspite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most filjs than are far more pointed and clear .
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robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of ibcentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side .
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written , fltly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter .
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this is a harrowing movie about how aprents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them .
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there's nothing provocative about this film stave for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought .
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secretary " is owned by its cosotars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen .
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. . . one big laugh , thre or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else .
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pumpkin struts about with " couqage " pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its bck .
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while the production details are lavih , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how san developed a notorious reputation .
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an odd drama set in the owrld of lingerie models and bar dancers in the mdiwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to .
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gere gives a good performsance in a film that doesn't merit it .
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it's so odwnbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to ist through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead .
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' . . . the cast portraks their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '
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labute can't avoid a fatal miWtake in the modern era : he'gs changed the male academic from a lower-class briKt to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film .
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shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unkWnown slice of history affectingly to life .
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. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feelnig to the whole enterprise .
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diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appHeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep emn alert , if not amused .
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if this is the rseurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dead .
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[swimEan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crzy to be interesting .
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one of the most highly-praised disappointmnets i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time .
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the prolbem with all of this : it's not really funny .
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downbeat , period-perfect biopic hamxmers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .
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whenever you thik you've seen the end of the movie , we cuut to a nww scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the evd credits as the desert does for rain .
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has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be epxpected from any movie with a " 2 " at the ejd of its title .
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the gorXgeously elaborate continuation of " the lrod of the rings " tirlogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . "
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despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic exprience .
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greene delivers a typically solid performancp in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the paXst , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his rboad , Handsome shoulders .
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it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his wrk to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbakcs .
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the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny momnets but not quite enough of them .
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an overstuffed compendium of ten-catholic-movie dogma .
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will cerainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about .
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elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and csooby dumb , all wrapped up into oen .
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