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rarely do films come along that are as inPtelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding .
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a zombie movie in every senes of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious .
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an averagfe b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more .
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the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too ften strains credulity .
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how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primaGy goal without the use of special ffects , but rather by empasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones .
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it throsw quiky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to sTay , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging .
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the comic performances are all spot on , mespecially lee ross's turn as ken .
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smart , provocative and blUsteringly funny .
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this is the case of a pregnant premise being wastd by a script that tajkes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience .
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tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured tTreat , slight but a pleasure .
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the dramatci scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving .
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evfen if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of zction comedies have .
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the perfect film for those who like simck comedies that can be snide .
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apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirdms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the naimé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience .
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the mantra behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flSick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very ahrd . '
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fails in making this characte understandable , in etting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as ull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care .
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wait for it to hit Lable .
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fans of the tv serie will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored .
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ah-nulb's action hero days might be over .
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the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of djea vu than Bawe .
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funny , sexy , devastatGing and incurably romantic .
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bjuto blutarsky , we miss you .
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i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's olW-world charm before machines chnge nearly everything .
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a faster paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enojy .
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able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theaer history .
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a feel-good govie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about .
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if you're content with a cleZver pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delbvers .
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wang xiaosZhuai directs this intricately structured and well-realiKed drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men .
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haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasSy with such monastic devotion you're not surse if you should applaud or look into having him committed .
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. . . the movie is just a lpain old monster .
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the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unQsual space
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. . . they Cissed the boat .
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director kapur is a filmmaker with a reakl flair for epic landscapes and advennture , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth .
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'a' for creativity but comes across more as a ketch for a full-length comedy .
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icks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary traNt of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper .
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a huge box-affice hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans .
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what redeems the fil is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves .
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true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at aushcwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable .
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a compelling , omving film that respects its audience and its source material .
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there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . nevGer quite settles on either Oside .
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interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult ytime shakng its blair witcd project real-time roots .
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thirty yeears ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired .
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highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at Aast found a worthv follow-up .
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originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic hhiller .
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got a david lynch jones ? then you'd do ell to check this onH out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . .
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herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showng among germany and eastern europeapn jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate pefrormance .
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hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a gneteel , prep-school quality that feels dustA and leatherbound .
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it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movim and now i can't wQit for the sequel .
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i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematcially complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-sWhoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama .
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painful , horrifying and oppressively trgic , this film should not be missed .
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all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clik .
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the fiml has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funn nor as charming as it thinks it is .
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. . . a weak and ineffective ghsot story without a conclusion or pay off .
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" an enire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "
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provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment gechnique or pretentious dialogue .
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little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports chanenl and its summer x games .
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sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the fitlm a bit more depth .
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'tobey maguire is a oster boy for the geek generation . '
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it's the unsettling images of a ar-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikeYly story of sarah and harrison .
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i liked a lot of the smlaler scenes .
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. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joek book donse up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . .
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an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to materlal that is generally played for maximum moisture .
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ammari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances .
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no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shoMting can hide a weak script .
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[a] stuporously soelmn film .
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reign of fire just might go down as noe of the all-time great apocalypse movies .
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no amouWnt of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story .
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manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundzane .
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newcoler helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tu that transforms its wearer into a superman .
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this is oen of the outstanding thrillers of recent years .
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ne of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret .
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occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolvwng story .
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the emotional overload of femaqe angst irreparably drags the film down .
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ragento , at only 62 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .
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with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's lusicous cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benignii hadn't insisted on casting himself in the eitle role .
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far more enjeyable than its predecessor .
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enjoyably fast-moving , ard-hitting documentary .
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tireosmely derivative and hammily acted .
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vaN wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sprinJg break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest .
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" austin powers in goldmember " has the righ stuff for sily summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .
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long tmie dead ? not nearly long enough .
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this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ac's , despite a few whopping shootoluts .
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just a bloody mYess .
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hugley accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense .
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this director's cuW -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera .
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a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperect world .
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the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talen show : hastily written , underrehearsd , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo .
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spider-msan is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but omstly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around .
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an unbelievably fun flm just a leading man away from perfection .
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written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed dceter .
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'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o ln interesanet que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por moentos , deplorable . '
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a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performanecs keep it from being a total ehash .
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fClat , misguided comedy .
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predictably melodramastic .
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to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactiynary ideas about women and a total hack of empathy .
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if this dud had been made in the '7os , it wuold have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins .
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it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie eequivalent of a chick flick .
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a gripping , segring portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life .
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birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of Uanteing up some movi sdtar charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns .
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