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as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness .
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graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies .
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-lrb- allen -rrb- manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise .
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the truth about charlie is that it 's a brazenly misguided project .
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with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee .
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this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment .
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exhilarating but blatantly biased .
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a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama .
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rarely , a movie is more than a movie .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin 's greatest hits .
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less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is .
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an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses .
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the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen .
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a gentle and engrossing character study .
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sluggish , tonally uneven .
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ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing .
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the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold .
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what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking .
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russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers 's title-bout features .
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some remarkable achival film about how shanghai -lrb- of all places -rrb- served jews who escaped the holocaust .
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`` interview '' loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into .
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an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore .
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intelligent and moving .
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a bodice-ripper for intellectuals .
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it 's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom .
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the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard .
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time out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term .
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guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it 's not scary in the slightest .
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peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical .
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elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy .
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kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie .
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maryam is a small film , but it offers large rewards .
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ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film .
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a stylistic romp that 's always fun to watch .
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you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood is n't going to jell .
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a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown .
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its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie 's presentation , which is way too stagy .
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there 's a heavy stench of ` been there , done that ' hanging over the film .
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an affectionately goofy satire that 's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary ...
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but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti
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at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ... all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad it
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stress ` dumb . '
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katz 's documentary does n't have much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it .
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deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel .
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huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty .
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where 's the movie here ?
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an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously .
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whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it 's an unhappy situation all around .
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it does n't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that .
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this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever .
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if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you 're far better served by the source material .
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swimming is above all about a young woman 's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman 's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds .
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mattei 's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination .
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` the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style .
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the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact .
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originality is sorely lacking .
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it trusts the story it sets out to tell .
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the film has a kind of hard , cold effect .
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strip it of all its excess debris , and you 'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie .
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while there 's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans -lrb- as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics -rrb- , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor .
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did we really need a remake of `` charade ? ''
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stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid .
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the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture .
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all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon .
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throughout , mr. audiard 's direction is fluid and quick .
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the observations of this social\/economic\/urban environment are canny and spiced with irony .
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while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends -lrb- it -rrb- stimulating depth .
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undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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... in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who do n't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes .
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watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers .
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ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon
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time out is as serious as a pink slip .
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tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art .
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-lrb- creates -rrb- the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama .
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director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story 's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself .
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a tremendous piece of work .
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as an actor 's showcase , hart 's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player .
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a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro .
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there 's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us .
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our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and i know this because i 've seen ` jackass : the movie . '
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moonlight mile does n't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy .
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american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone .
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the script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue .
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if you recognize zeus -lrb- the dog from snatch -rrb- it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one .
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wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many .
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though nijinsky 's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature .
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parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place .
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this movie may not have the highest production values you 've ever seen , but it 's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep .
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brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results .
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woefully pretentious .
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mattei so completely loses himself to the film 's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money .
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-lrb- leigh -rrb- has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors -lrb- improvised over many months -rrb- and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable .
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director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .
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godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks .
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there 's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau .
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gaping plot holes sink this ` sub ' - standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .
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no surprises .
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the film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen .
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a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact .
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