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the movie is a trove of delights .
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the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about .
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but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell .
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in his u.s. debut , mr. schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist .
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yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents .
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it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face .
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an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one .
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sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ?
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-lrb- sam 's -rrb- self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining .
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dramas like this make it human .
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although estela bravo 's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it 's still a guilty pleasure to watch .
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but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed .
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this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers .
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this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .
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viva le resistance !
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some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling .
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plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors ' workshop that it is .
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the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .
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nijinsky says , ' i know how to suffer ' and if you see this film you 'll know too .
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frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances ... keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease .
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it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster .
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witless and utterly pointless .
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fred schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen .
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may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it 's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless .
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a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children 's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation .
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the film is a fierce dance of destruction .
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the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs .
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it 's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress .
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psychologically revealing .
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if a big musical number like ` praise the lord , he 's the god of second chances ' does n't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids .
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but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great ... i 'm not , and then i realized that i just did n't care .
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and there 's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene 's story ends .
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bluto blutarsky , we miss you .
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crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
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do n't say you were n't warned .
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hopkins , squarely fills the screen .
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hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture 's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse .
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you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends .
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while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary .
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what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
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this may be burns 's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen .
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warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message .
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its director 's most substantial feature for some time .
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a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` in space , no one can hear you snore . '
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leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute .
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`` extreme ops '' exceeds expectations .
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it 's stylishly directed with verve ...
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fans of critics ' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart .
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its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director 's previous popcorn work .
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chen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book .
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the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .
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what -lrb- frei -rrb- gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows .
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-lrb- hell is -rrb- looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara is n't even halfway through .
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me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story .
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director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it 's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .
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in other words , it 's just another sports drama\/character study .
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there 's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever .
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compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children .
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worthy of the gong .
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a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties .
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more dutiful than enchanting ... terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat .
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the fourth `` pokemon '' is a diverting -- if predictable -- adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world 's delicate ecological balance .
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the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film .
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it 's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
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the charming result is festival in cannes .
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while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .
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it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill
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this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are .
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she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly .
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the film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking .
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plus , like i already mentioned ... it 's robert duvall !
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cinematic poetry showcases the city 's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .
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a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene 's work as well as a remarkably faithful one .
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the ring never lets you off the hook .
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lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece .
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fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation ... well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care .
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uplifting , funny and wise .
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the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission ... if `` gory mayhem '' is your idea of a good time .
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cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy .
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i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights .
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the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor .
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a peculiar misfire that even tunney ca n't save .
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fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough .
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in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song .
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witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic .
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a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley .
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the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another .
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they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book .
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with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral .
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more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food .
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brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade .
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a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .
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it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste .
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knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up .
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a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching .
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offers absolutely nothing i had n't already seen .
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the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable .
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serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time .
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