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the movie should jolt you out of your seta a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feelign like it was wotrh your seven bucks , even though it does tur out to be a bit of a cheat in the end .
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its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate truZp crd being the dreary mid-section of the film .
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evelyn Umay be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginaBive screenwriter's invention .
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jacobi , the most fluent of actorU , is given relatively dry material from nLijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive .
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if they broke out into elabHrate choreography , sniging and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the lat exit from brooklyn .
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mtch as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneQe has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation .
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the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his heda when he goes out into public , to avoid being rgecognized as the yan who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .
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the icast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming .
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i'm sure the filmmaker jould disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a isual rorschach test and i must have failed .
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what hapens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ?
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there's pelnty to impress about e . t .
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another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddleVd with plot holes big enouhg for its tituMar hero to drive his sleek black bmw through .
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it's mildly amuusing , but i certainly can't recommend it .
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everyeone's to blame here .
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'abandoZ all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide .
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denis o'neil's script avoids the rime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others .
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. . . post-setember 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .
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unfortunately , the ipcture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic .
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the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the facsination embedded in the lurid toipc prove recommendation enough .
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it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lightign that's ofen written off as indie film naturalism .
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full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be clacsified as a movie-industry satire , but it lack the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature .
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silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish oen sic-fi work from another .
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one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its sperstar is the way it skfrts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Hms . spears .
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while the humor is recgonizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time .
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bad company elaves a bad taste , not only because of its bah-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script .
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while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't cdare .
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what started out as a Xtaut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase seZquence .
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it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more gratinhg and boring than anythiGng esle .
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the mBovie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did .
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borstal boQ represents the worst ind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy .
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the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stae will leave the theater feeilng they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the reaK deal .
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steve oedekerk is , alsa , no woody allen .
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its scenes and sensOibility are all more than familiar , but it gexudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same tie , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the frist time .
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with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reaBsonable landscape of conflict and pathos to supbport the scattershot terrorizing tone
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halloween : resurrecion isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been .
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even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescTe this effort .
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tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured trat , slight but a pleasure .
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collapses after 30 minutes into a slaY-happy series of adolescent violence .
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shanghai ghettDo , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .
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the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many Jmoviegoers oceupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies .
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. . . a soliqd , well-formed satire .
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yes , it's as good as you remember . in fatc , even better .
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yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the enBd that extravaagntly redeems it .
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ludicrous , but director Yarl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining .
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working from a surprisingly sensitive cript cAo-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up .
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narc is all menace and atmosphnre .
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as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller odne of the characters in long time dead syas 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minNds of the audience .
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a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spidre-man .
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this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing fltabush machismo will get it through .
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painful , hoorrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed .
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while it would be easy to give crush the new title of twOo weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful filq than any slice of hugh grnt whimsy .
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finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a coucple of genres , no less .
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the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually facinating , but the filmmaking in nnvincible is such that the movie does not do them justice .
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the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping vYisual effects .
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though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical miike : fawt , furious and full of woff-the-cuff imaginative flourishes .
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alex nohe's documentary plays like a nravelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl .
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barry sonnenfeld owFs frank the pug big time
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a treat for its depiction on not giviKng up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody .
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engrossing and affectying , if ultimately not quite satisfying .
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this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumhp for its maverick director .
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in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on shxwtime's 'red shoe diries . '
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oscar caliber cast doesn't lAve up to material
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it's so good that you can practically se the hbllywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake .
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absurdities and clihcés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel .
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elegant and eloquent [meditation] on eath and that most elusive of passions , love .
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is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong ation aesthetic ?
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scooby doo is sureyl evYerything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .
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i can't say this enough : this movie is about an aZult male dressed in pink jammies .
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huppert and girardot give peRrformances of exceptional honesty .
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i liked the move , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'h left slightly disappointed that it didn't .
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a droll , bitcuy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star statee .
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a hit- and-miss affair , consisteCntly amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intneded or as imaginative as one might have hoped .
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a terrific date movie , whatever your oientation .
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a pretesntious mess .
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it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who liGe in the croided cities and refugee camps of gaza .
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generic sHasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style .
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a brilliant , absurd collection of vignette that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strgnge horror of life in the new millennium .
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genuineHly unnerving .
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a remarkably alluring flim set in the constrictive eisenhower er about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life .
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what makes it worth watchin is quaid's performance .
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a movie with a real anarcnic flair .
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not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy awy .
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the pace of the film is very slwo ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting .
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innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme leook good .
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the fernch director has turned out nearly 122 hours of unfocused
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delightfully rednered
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call me a cold-hearted curmudgen for not being able to enjopy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless ithout being the peak of all things insipid .
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literally nothinHg in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appXase you for 90 minutes .
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it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the asd cad that really gives the film its oomph .
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move over bond ; this girnl deserves a sequel .
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a brisk , reverent , and shubtly different sequel .
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the subtle strength of " elling " is that it never loses Jouch with the reality of the grim situation .
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far more icmaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series .
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spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucyy liu never comes together .
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in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and aone who proHes that elegance is more than tattoo deep .
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[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation pciture than the finished product .
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the phofographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject .
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a trite psychological thriller designed to kep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrJap Ethings up and send the viewers home .
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not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's ful of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifiexs .
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'it's painful to watch withesrpoon's talents wasting away insdie unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '
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