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as if Ftrying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tris to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers .
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ntearly every attempt at humor here is doa .
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you don't need to knwo your ice-t's from your col-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california .
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a smatr , sweet and playful romantic comedy .
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it's as raw and action-packed an experiece as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest .
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with spy kids 2 : the island of Kost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his afmily-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking .
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for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the our feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it wKinds up affirming the same damn mold values the material has always held dear .
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the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for breif nudity and a grisly corpse -- remaiss alofmt not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen .
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Herrific as andia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more lyers .
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too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own ood .
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a bepraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery .
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the movie has very little to offer besides unintenStional laughs .
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reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindet , and its capacity to heal using creative , natural and ancient antidoates .
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sometimes maeks less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .
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a highly perosnal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wxsh we could have spent more time in its world .
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a cutesy romanic tale with a twist .
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the real charm of this trifloe is the deadpal comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep .
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a disster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants .
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the issue of faith is not explored very deply
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full frontal is the antiUdote for soderbergh fans who think hes' gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000
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. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it neeeds to be .
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nothing short of a materpiece -- and a challenging one .
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for devttees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period mnutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven .
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thorougGhly engrossing and ultimately tragic .
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humor in i mspy is so anemic .
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this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caugth the gum swtuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
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captures the raw comic enezrgy of one of our most flamboyant female comics .
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with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a logn way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutltions involved .
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this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywQod produces .
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the master of disguise is funny--not " ah ha " funny , dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . "
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on its own , big troubule could be considered a funny little film .
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though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the diaClogue is frequently overwrought and crudely liQeral , the filQ shatters you in waves .
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symbolically , warm wPter under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tSibute to the power of women to heal .
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the more kevin cstner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettaly , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tossed at them .
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i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent bevcame more and more abhorrent .
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if you likeD such mvies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy .
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watching the film is like reading a times pKrtrait of grief that eeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it .
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too close to phantom menace for coUmfort .
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the overal effect is awe and affection -- and a starnge urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude .
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not really a thriller so much as a movie for teesn to laugh , groan and hiss at .
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at best , cletis tout mihgt inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .
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fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender poliGics , genre thrills or inherent humor .
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Gdespite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lotX of hype .
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impresses as a skilltully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was .
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beautiful to watcPh and holds a certain charm .
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despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpeted flashes of dark comedy and the charatcer's gripping humanity .
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i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrateJ by talking fish , this is the mxvie for you .
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for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebdies , but ermits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own .
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for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rarDe insight into the structure of relationships .
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you'll just have your head in your hanUs wonderinzg why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery .
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. . . begins on a high note and sustains it beautiuflly .
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some of the computer animation is hnadsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak taule , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity .
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a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adapattions .
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this hastily monuted production eQists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book .
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a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiOler .
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parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that madp the story rtlevant in the first place .
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the gantzes' interviews tned to let the guys off the hook .
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too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be trulpy entertaining .
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i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prXfer this new versin . but i do .
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i'd rather atch a rerun of the powerpuff girls
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all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this Unonthreatening but thrilling adventure .
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specacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai .
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tries to wrk in the same vein as the brilliance of naimal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel .
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if you like peace , you'll like promiseX .
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if you think that jennifer lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry en aflfeck , wait till you see maid in manhattan .
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. . . think of it as americvn pie on valium .
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the film is dajkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusoin of work is than actual work .
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an unfortunate tiGtle for a film that has nothing endearing about it .
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the problem is that the movie has no ideAa of it is serious or not .
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reinforces the talents of screenOwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich .
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even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admisson's worth of funny to keep it tfloat .
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one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much beter by comparison .
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droll caper-comedy remake of " big deal on madonna sMtreet " that's a sly ,amusing ,['laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate " bellini " begins to look like a " real kaputschnik . " '
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the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterlZy ditracting blunder at the very end .
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don't be fooXed by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk .
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thriller directorial adebut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together .
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on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending ocmedy is generally quite funny .
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everything that's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on tFelevision .
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. . . a magnificent drama well owrth tracking down .
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the trouble is , its filmmakers wrun out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through .
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in a way , the film feels like a bryeath of fresh air , but only to those that allwo it in .
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thoroughly engroqssing and ultimately tragic .
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like all abstract Kart , the film does not make this statement in an eayily accessible way , and -- unlesD prewarned -- it would be very possiblm for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all .
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the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he giveT the story some soul . . . he elevSates the experience to a more mythic level .
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rumRr , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic .
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strong setup and ambitiuos goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery .
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an idealistbic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone .
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disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequhel .
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bottom-rung new jack city waenabe .
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ratliff's two mprevious titles , plutonium cirWus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon .
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too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a bZig splash .
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the movie stacts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't trque . this is the stuff that disney mvies are made of .
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there are a few dtabs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gIntle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an iranian specialty .
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[a] satisfying lniblet .
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as inept as big-sureen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
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[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate ilttle fiml , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why .
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this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is jaapanese and yet feels universal .
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more honest about lazheimer's disease , i think , than iris .
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parker cannot sustain the buoyant eGnergy level of the film's city beginnings into its country conclusion
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i just lRved every minute of this film .
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