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this director 's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera .
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`` the dangerous lives of altar boys '' has flaws , but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors
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movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation .
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an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence .
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producer john penotti surveyed high school students ... and came back with the astonishing revelation that `` they wanted to see something that did n't talk down to them . ''
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it 's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it .
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what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves .
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but what 's nice is that there 's a casual intelligence that permeates the script .
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adam sandler 's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie .
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a mess .
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the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him .
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so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride .
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talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching .
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a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives .
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after seeing ` analyze that , ' i feel better already .
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mazel tov to a film about a family 's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage .
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the characters are never more than sketches ... which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach .
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reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies .
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though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog 's works , invincible shows he 's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film .
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monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds .
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it shows us a slice of life that 's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable .
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interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love story .
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what we have here is n't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down .
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there 's a reason the studio did n't offer an advance screening .
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there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling .
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though it 's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans ' saga of hollywood excess .
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one of the worst films of 2002 .
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lazy , miserable and smug .
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-lrb- t -rrb- he script is n't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi 's now-cliched vampire accent .
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often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part .
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an animation landmark as monumental as disney 's 1937 breakthrough snow white and the seven dwarfs .
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this thing is just garbage .
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`` the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store ''
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still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences .
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a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv 's big brother .
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like the world of his film , hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it .
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what 's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm .
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it 's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties .
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the extent to which it succeeds is impressive .
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proves a servicable world war ii drama that ca n't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored .
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a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
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a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really is n't .
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this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade .
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instead of trying to bust some blondes , -lrb- diggs -rrb- should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad .
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delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information .
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meyjes 's movie , like max rothman 's future , does not work .
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a weird , arresting little ride .
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but i had a lot of problems with this movie .
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it 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast .
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the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very best of them .
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nakata 's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects .
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the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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there 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something .
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but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg 's 1993 classic .
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the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times .
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never does `` lilo & stitch '' reach the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as `` mulan '' or `` tarzan . ''
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a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival .
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the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker .
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a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director 's understanding of the expressive power of the camera .
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that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture
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my own minority report is that it stinks .
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cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera .
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brosnan is more feral in this film than i 've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him .
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ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad .
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frankly , it 's pretty stupid .
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ozpetek 's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie .
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too clever by about nine-tenths .
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horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth .
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a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .
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an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see .
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watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures .
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there 's no good answer to that one .
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-lrb- while the last metro -rrb- was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history .
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cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in .
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if you think it 's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy the hot chick .
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with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare .
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a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points .
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a non-mystery mystery .
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there 's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing .
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there 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie .
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together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey .
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i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was .
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fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds .
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instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos .
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feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form .
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it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film .
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gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults .
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why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ?
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no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place .
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-lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism .
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captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . ''
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never once predictable .
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the film does n't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia .
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offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory .
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the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l.a. to that end , they mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either .
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i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways .
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the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey ... -lrb- it -rrb- comes off like a hallmark commercial .
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the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings .
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a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .
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