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if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material .
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murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud ... and parmentier .
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... for all its social and political potential , state property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful .
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the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters ' suffering .
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unwieldy contraption .
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by and large this is mr. kilmer 's movie , and it 's his strongest performance since the doors .
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a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer .
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feral and uncomfortable .
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one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature .
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-lrb- a -rrb- crushing disappointment .
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i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho 's .
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seems like someone going through the motions .
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despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore .
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fans of plympton 's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers .
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... a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind .
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the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way .
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the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other .
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ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer 's memory .
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` this movie sucks . '
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an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre .
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... a bland , pretentious mess .
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the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale
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alternately frustrating and rewarding .
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... if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious -- at ninety minutes , it drags .
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a superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find .
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sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 .
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a listless and desultory affair .
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a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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nothing about them is attractive .
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manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
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vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores .
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the performances are an absolute joy .
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this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done .
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like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame .
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it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise .
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it 's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once .
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-lrb- swimfan -rrb- falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting .
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loosely speaking , we 're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin .
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predictably melodramatic .
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russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage .
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highly engaging .
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antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it .
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the whole talking-animal thing is grisly .
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the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .
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more a gunfest than a rock concert .
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if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun .
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has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .
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a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches .
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what 's next ?
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nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself .
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twohy 's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels .
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an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
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aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash .
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fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .
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hatosy ... portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue .
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washington overcomes the script 's flaws and envelops the audience in his character 's anguish , anger and frustration .
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mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls .
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very stupid and annoying .
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an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .
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the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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make like the title and dodge this one .
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often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers .
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the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington 's fine performance in the title role .
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but it 's surprisingly harmless .
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officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .
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a film that suffers because of its many excesses .
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a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 .
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the leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting .
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staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce .
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a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .
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a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .
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functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .
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reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining .
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the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience .
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turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters
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one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends .
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there 's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him .
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a film that loses sight of its own story .
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where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval .
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these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation .
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a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age .
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the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side .
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a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .
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there 's plenty to impress about e.t.
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the pianist -lrb- is -rrb- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life .
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topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs .
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never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .
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has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke .
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a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man 's right to raise his own children .
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those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking .
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sadly , ` garth ' has n't progressed as nicely as ` wayne . '
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the story of trouble every day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult .
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-lrb- t -rrb- he ideas of revolution # 9 are more compelling than the execution
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most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .
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consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire .
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imagine -lrb- if possible -rrb- a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma .
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just plain bad .
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although it tries to be much more , it 's really just another major league .
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when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you 'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .
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