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... a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing .
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i walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like .
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the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you .
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what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ?
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long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame .
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familiar but utterly delightful .
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the chocolate factory without charlie .
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may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .
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steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece
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it made me feel unclean , and i 'm the guy who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies .
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complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold .
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a lot of the credit for the film 's winning tone must go to grant , who has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him .
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the rare imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour .
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if you 're a comic fan , you ca n't miss it .
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a marvel of production design .
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from the choppy editing to the annoying score to ` special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line , `` besotted '' is misbegotten
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a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .
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from both a great and a terrible story , mr. nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience .
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consider it ` perfection . '
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affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things .
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if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca 's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera .
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like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on
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it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't .
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moretti ... is the rare common-man artist who 's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness .
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... irritating soul-searching garbage .
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a humorless journey into a philosophical void .
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none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens .
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you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise .
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the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down .
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the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .
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were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . '
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the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ...
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triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude .
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wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own .
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lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .
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a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .
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fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .
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jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .
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daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
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the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany\/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster .
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quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out .
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a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .
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a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .
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a bit too eager to please .
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sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard .
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it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .
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rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day .
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a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable .
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funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .
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this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
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shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera .
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the story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .
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imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson 's far side humor
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he 's not good with people .
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big mistake .
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aan opportunity wasted .
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y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .
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rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy .
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it is quite a vision .
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a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .
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the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .
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downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .
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less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession .
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the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .
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you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .
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if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck .
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a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .
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cool .
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the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery .
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beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .
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morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema .
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guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
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there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .
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depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .
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bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie ... is , also , frequently hilarious .
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bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .
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it 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut , mad cows .
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there 's a lot to recommend read my lips .
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i 'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls
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this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot .
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the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering .
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it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .
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maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts .
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the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us .
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britney spears ' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction .
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the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . '
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devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable .
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... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .
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terrific as nadia , 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 layers .
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he fails .
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this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit .
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nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .
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it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .
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jeong-hyang lee 's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying .
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the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .
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for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .
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it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .
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one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .
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visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction .
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high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience .
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