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if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin 's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '
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the soundtrack alone -- the literal pulse of the thing -- will rock you in your seat .
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twohy is not only skilled at building and maintaining suspense , he 's also aware that a cast chock full of experienced character actors is the right fit for a haunted sub flick .
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this undercover documentary takes you deep into the controversial arena of backyard wrestling where the limits are constantly being tested . . . and
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as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle .
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chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america .
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the girls are treated like outcasts because they have inadvertently wrecked townsville in a superpowered game of tag .
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clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up .
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the story is set against a relationship that forms between the american hustler boy and a brazilian teenage girl who must help each other survive the drug gang-controlled slums of rio de janeiro .
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too ordinary to restore [ harmon ] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience .
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something akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously .
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her mother 's friends , who formed a secret society , the ya-ya sisterhood , as children , kidnap siddalee from her new york apartment and take her home to louisiana , where they explain why her mother mistreated her with help from the secret ya-ya scrapbook ( and copious flashbacks ) .
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a bit of whimsically warped history elevated by the central performance of ian holm .
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aka is the story of a disaffected youth 's search for love , status , and identity in late 1970s britain .
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due to a botched robbery attempt , a ruthless romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day new york and begins wreaking havok on a small manhattan art-house .
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fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored .
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investors from around the world are intrigued to bring money to the project heavily backed by patricia .
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they have one request - their bosses head on a plate .
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will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted .
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it 's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget .
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tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple M-^W he 's understated and sardonic , she 's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better .
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it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking .
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what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .
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`` maid in manhattan `` is a charmer , a pc `` pretty woman `` that ditches the odious prostitution theme for class commentary
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when algren is injuried and captured by the samurai , learns about their warrior honor code from katsumoto , the samurai & # 180 ; s leader and decide which side of the conflict he wants to be on . . .
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a band of college students go to a rave on a mysterious island and get more than they bargained for when they find themselves stalked by killer zombies and terrifying creatures intent on feasting on the flesh of the living .
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while shooting an engagement party , he attempts to make a connection with jen , the beautiful sister of the bride .
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an unintentionally surreal kid 's picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode .
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goes on and on to the point of nausea .
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neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price .
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i ca n't say that i liked homeboy ; it 'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way .
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until then , he spends most of his time watching sloppy tearjerkers on video .
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with a rare gift for melding subjectivity with biographical facts , m & # 225 ; rton brings sabina spielrein back to life , body and soul .
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while it does n't expose any new truths about the problems posed by reaching middle age , it reflects wisely on the truths that already exist .
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if borstal boy is n't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece .
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all of this changes when he finds a large mysterious package left on his doorstep .
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the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show 's concept .
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unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook .
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so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed .
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feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network .
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an entertaining quasi-critique of modern manners whose comedy arises out of its gravity -- and a winning performance by ricardo darin .
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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devastated by her husband 's death from a drug overdose , philippa ( played by cate blanchett ) , a british teacher living in turin , italy , tries to bring justice to the biggest drug dealer in turin when the local police ignore her information about him .
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once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor , a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship , which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature .
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the young man find herbert down in his jail cell and learns for himself just what the re-agent is capable of .
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .
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a stone building , newly restored , stands in the clear light of the autumnal equinox .
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struggling to fit in , jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members of the local singles ward who want to reactivate him .
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may take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going , but if you have the patience for it , you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours .
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it 's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that 's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back .
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even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm .
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the young man looks for comfort in his father , but he 's to occupied with winning the eurovision song contest .
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everything goes wrong when they try to rob a bank , though they meet mille , who puts them onto a new trail , and peter and martin also make a contribution .
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. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture ' i just might .
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the results are as giddy , painful , sad and loving as real life tends to be .
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talk to her manages to be female-centric even as it explores the lives of men .
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she ca n't get in there because te door is locked .
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the four girls are teased and discriminated against by their other colleagues and are finally fired by their beautiful , evil boss christine .
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in a botched attempt to organize a protest against their `` slave labor `` , the women take over the prison - a rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates .
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he trades his grandmother 's only treasure for a video game ; he throws his food and he throws tantrums .
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kids surely will like it . and for adults , it 's perfectly watchable in a rugrats-y sort of way .
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will these four be able to move on with their lives and accept the fact that it 's time to start acting their age ?
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later he is catering at a party featuring a wise old guru , who gets drunk and passes out .
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the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time .
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a committed , intelligent and fascinating piece of work with no irony about it .
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in an era when the country 's first line of defense , intelligence , is more important than ever , comes an explosive thriller starring al pacino and colin farrell that for the first time opens the cia 's infamous closed doors and gives an insider 's view into the agency : how trainees are recruited , how they are prepared for the spy game , and what they learn to survive .
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dori is 50 years old , actually the exact age of ben 's mother .
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a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others .
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[ cuarM-sn has ] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy .
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add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney 's a good director .
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scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .
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set in the rugged mountains and lush , untamed forests of the pacific northwest , tribe of joseph is an engrossing tale of troubled youths plucked from the familiarity of their urban lives and transported into the alien isolation and life or death danger of a survivalist existence .
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people are becoming petrified , and no-one knows what is doing it .
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despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings .
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along the way , his vendetta quest leads to the son of howard saint ( travolta ) , a former underworld boss who had gone straight , but the death of his son leads him to get back into crime , and he 's gunning for the punisher .
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less worrying about covering all the drama in frida 's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie .
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when mcconaughey 's girlfriend ( played by kate beckinsale ) becomes pregnant , the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the oldman gene .
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the doctor realizes it' 's a love virus so he advises him to woo the girl somehow , not realizing that munnabhai has fallen for none other than his own younger sister komal .
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nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself . it 's horribly depressing and not very well done .
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comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , `` crossroads `` instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns .
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a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [ opening ] dance guarantees karmen 's enthronement among the cinema 's memorable women .
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these diverse motivations come together creating a big problemo .
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based on frances mayes ' memoir of the same name .
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a mythic motorcycle tale of father and son `` , this is the story of manuel galloway ( fishburne ) , also known as `` the king of cali `` , the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all african-american men , mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets .
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the only life he 's known is as a gigolo , working for his mother , but he wants to leave that behind .
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having an affair with his girlfriend 's professor forces him to make difficult decisions about love , friendship , career , and the direction his life should take .
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beth 's style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood .
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but will 's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old marcus , in many ways his complete opposite .
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mel cobb leads a lonely existence in an apartment filled with clutter , his only contact with the outside world being as a weekend tele-marketer for a start-up newspaper which features stories on city road , bridge and tunnel construction workers in order to alleviate road rage among motorists who are stuck in traffic .
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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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the best laid plans of hung-over boys meet a florist with a cricket bat in this morning after adventure resulting in an unexpected outcome for all .
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brookdale has another , more lucrative facet ; a safe harbour for the chronically drug-addicted rich and famous , especially the sons and daughters of the above , whose families have tried everything .
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the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp .
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may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen .
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only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins .
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if much of me without you strikes a familiar chord , it also intelligently captures the difficulties that can disrupt even a close friendship .
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their plan is to take jason back home to crystal lake and have both freddy and jason destroy each other .
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rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding .
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we also catch a glimpse of the band 's ideas about performance from the blend of footage from concerts , television , music videos , and other media .
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the jew ( shylock ) has a long memory of oppression , but revenge is not so sweet .
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