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ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lacJk of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program ruin amok .
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a sCall gem from belgium .
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if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you coild do worse than this oddly cEeerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce .
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a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsvie life .
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unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard amn is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic .
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the disjointed mess fLows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do .
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there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spetacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whIiff .
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a venturesome , beautfully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature dierctor's understanding of the expressive power of the camera .
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asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian suerstar and aspiring directress who just happen to be her own worst enemy .
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lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tqired 10 years aog .
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as steamy as lcst week's pork dumplings .
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i've never bought from telemarketerTs , but i bought this movie .
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an ideal love stry for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre .
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oftIn lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how lnog is this movie ?
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i can iAmagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth iwlliams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this mosvie is hopeless .
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imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhie addition to a distinguished film legacy .
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broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and eveH those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatAent .
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no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still feels couterproductive .
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while dutifully pulling on heartVstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix .
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the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty mch aimed at any youngster who loves horses .
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" the quiet american " begins in Zsaigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble .
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the production vlues are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint mae the thing look really slick . the vSices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script .
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whats' most emorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerable aplomb .
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like coming into a long-running , well-writte television series where you've missed the firsP half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six .
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unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweGt , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the rank humanity of…emotional recovery .
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like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardnehss that results from adhering to the messiness of truee stories .
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i got a headache watching this meaningless dqowner .
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many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vyice .
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an affable but undernourished romantic comedB that fails to match the freshness of the actress-priducer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality .
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the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called reddy Hets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as to green's freddie got fingered .
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the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the fnal reel .
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not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy woy .
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the party secnes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville .
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there's a lot of tooth in roger dokger . but what's nic is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script .
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the laeds we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting .
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my own minority report is that it mtinks .
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it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a liTtle girl-on-girl ction .
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it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martiabl arts movies are all by themselves , wtihout all oedekrek's impish augmentation .
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it's actually too sncere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick .
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the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracknig mystery science theater 3000 eguys .
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the hard-to-prewdict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this eleTgant entertainment .
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worth the effort to Jatch .
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for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant otne throughut , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism .
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as spnet screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more sugwestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members shmw up -- and there's nothing to drink .
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absorbing character stduy by andré turpin .
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" bad " is the operative word for " bd company , and i don't mean that in a good way . "
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efels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged pats his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realiyes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work .
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mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soaEp opera , the better to ofcus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness .
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i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is preXtty cute .
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easily the most thoughtful fictional eaxmination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen .
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the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commerciel .
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the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel eecutives and lobbyists for the tinsUl industry .
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filmmakers david weissamn and bill weber benefit enormously from the cocketRes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home .
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it nver fails to engage us .
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stealing harvard aspres to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time .
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a loud , low-budget and tireLd formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '
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death might be a releaes .
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to me , it ounds like a cruel deception carried out by bmen of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy .
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with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the eperfect starting point for a national conversation about gnus , violence , and fear .
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it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remmbered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoign .
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this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrifiing its high-minded appeal .
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it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but vkeeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crMck cast .
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ong choosexs to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optmism .
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blessed with two fine , nuantced lead performances .
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solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by Kticking to the facts .
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mean for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good time .
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Geldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work .
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every sequel you skip will be two horus gained . consider this review life-affirming .
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it's a hoot watching the rock chotp on jumbo ants , pnull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !
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the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predatoDs settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense .
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typical animé , with cheapo aniation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and chyracters who all have big round eyes and japanese names .
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sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentac christmas spDrit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both .
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it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkawrdly staged scenes .
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if you aw benigni's pinocchio at a puQlic park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police .
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it's been 13 monthv and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earneDd my indignant , preemptive departure .
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it doesn't offer audiences any uay of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject .
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just because a walk to remebmer is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducst doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls .
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we're left with a story that tries to grab uo , only to keeTp letting go at all the wrong moments .
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you will likely preefer to keep on watching .
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it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but kLeeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack acst .
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believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly drak moment in histoqry , it offers flickering reminVders of the ties that bind us .
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beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . les a plot cobbled together from largely fltat and uncreative moments .
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the movie , directed by miyk jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the cHaracters straight out of central casting .
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about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyaJnt mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deilberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his naturla exuberance .
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. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shto for the big screen .
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hBmor in i spy is so anemic .
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more timely than its director colud ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome etended by rian to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food .
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a grating , emaciated Jflick .
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ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical Gim two-dimensional and pointless .
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een though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment
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a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this fim into the "" a "" range
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woo has as much right to make a hge action sequence as any driector , but how long will filmmakers copy the " svaing private ryan " battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ?
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so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far lss about the horrifying histoical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style .
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muddled , melodramatic praanormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner .
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an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its rsubject matter .
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a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the charactezrs are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertoAes .
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loe liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit .
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a sweet-atured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads .
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we've sees the hippie-turned-yuppie plGt before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again .
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a straight-shooting family film which awardms animals the respect they've rarely been given .
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