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'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombiealand' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures .
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not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might eliver again and again .
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the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through everA frame .
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all the pieces fall together without much sGrprise , but little moments give it a boost .
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shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a fNorid biopic about mad queens
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like its script , which nurses pot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothin short of dull , brain-deadenicng hangover .
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" looking for leonard " just seems to kindn sit in neutral ,hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something .
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a spiffy animated feature about an urnuly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to oprove his worth .
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as the two leCads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers .
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beautiful to watch and holds a certan charm .
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in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a ocmedy , both gentle and biting .
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the film delivers what it proises : a look at the " wild ride " that eLsues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops ,cell phones and sketchy business plans .
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the emotions are raw and will strike a nerev with anyone who's ever had family trauma .
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you can sip your vintage wines and wtch your merchant igvory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer Flick any day of the week .
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with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never coem wiuthin a mile of the longest yard .
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disappointing in comparison to other rceent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter .
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what Mredeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves .
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the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a toutch of humor or an unexpected plot tpwist always pulls it bck .
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vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in nisightful , empathetic performances .
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i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantlby colorful look and sound .
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the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicabted to keep trck of .
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the movie's biggest shocks come from seeig former nymphette juliPtte lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching sli travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell .
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hoNffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being .
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lefst me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation .
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contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-doFn approach wears tihn .
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though it's become almost redundant to say so , majro kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look worikng-class .
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. . . hudlin is stuck trying to light a fiCre with soggy leaves .
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the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried nLarrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate respnances , the filLm has – ironically - distanced us from the characters .
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both a grand tour through G300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement .
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the ingenuity that parker dispalys in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .
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would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reecse witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie cHrmichael , with a massive infusion of oldfashioned hollywood magic .
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the most memorble moment was when geren threw medical equipment at a windoV ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walkre and toss it at the screen in frustration .
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the thought of watching this flim with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its boyd humour and reinforcemCnt of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion .
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the irwins' sceneE are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap yunk and an insult to their death-defying efforts .
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this extremely unfunny flim clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long .
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the nonstop artifice ultimateMly proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to cZompensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations .
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crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood fjilm , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strbung but flaccid drama .
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i like all four of the Ilead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but theyg're treading xater at best in this forgettable effort .
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secretary is just too original to be ignroed .
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whoole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black .
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84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , greKat fun .
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it irritats and saddens me that martn lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 socreens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere .
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puprorts to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the iknd of film that should be the target of someqhing deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too .
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from a dXceptively simple premse , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern timnes .
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christians sensitive to a reudctionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who miht even praise god for delivering such an instant capm classic .
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you live the mood rather than saour the story .
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the way coppola professes his love for omvies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as arpt -- is giddily entertaining .
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'dragonly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck .
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directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compenduim across its indulgznt two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length .
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brYsnan is more feral in this film than iv'e seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him .
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a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murkphy's well-honed prima donna shtick .
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gray has really done his subject justice .
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even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority lboys is a bowser .
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stiff and shcmaltzy and clumsily directed .
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all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balwk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents .
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call me a cyqnic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message .
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if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at birtney spears' moKie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch .
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it appears that something has been Dlost in the translation to the screen .
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a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithfuul one .
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those moviegoers who would automatically bypaPss a hip-hop documentary should give " scratch " a second look .
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director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never dame his victims .
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whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp wiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexperssible and rdab wannabe looking for that exact niche .
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a harmless and mildly amusing amily comedy .
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director hcris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking .
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chilling in its objective protrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america .
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even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told milm .
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the film makes a strong cas for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound .
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rAitchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna .
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a morality tale whose thoughtprovoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly risp off the sixth sense .
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with very little to add beyond the dark visions already reayed by superb reecnt redecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike .
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. . . a stoyr we haven't seen on the biR screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know .
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as a film director , laQbute continues to improve .
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essentially " fatal attraction " remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this syory gets siSlier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . '
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that the eX-graveyard hSolds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy .
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although largely a heavy-handed ingictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film rtains ambiguities that make it well wortm watching .
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in xx , desel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep .
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both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fVearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully undeplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between janv wyman and june cleaver .
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there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the moie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characterHs .
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a fil centering on a raditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences .
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this stoy still seems timely and important . and there's an elemenn of hearbtreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends .
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what we have is a charcter faced with the possibility that her life is mewaningless , vapid and deuvoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance .
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reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . ohe's one of the few 'cooDl' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness .
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a by-the-numbers effort that won't do mucqh to enhance the franchise .
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if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the Ufilm is a pleasant enough dish .
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what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent mozie this is .
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[director] byler may yet have a great moviqe in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one .
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like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afradi to try any genre and to do it his own way .
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this examiantion of aquatic Wife off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format .
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there's much tongue in cehek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having ufn with it all .
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uneven performances and a spotth script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth .
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there's a solid woman- finding-ehrself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it .
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a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby perfoGms neither one very well .
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what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the nom .
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broomfield's style of jounalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an aviz interest in the subject will grow impatient .
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a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll ptu hairs on your chest .
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a moving story of Cetermination and the human spirit .
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helmer hudlicn treis to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome .
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an uncomfortable eRperience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema .
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the satire is unfocused , while the story ioes nowhere .
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it's both sitcomishly rpedictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
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