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before they carry this out , they want to truly experience life on the edge and they devise a plan by which their suicides will make them legends .
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charged with as much psychological depth as gun-slinging violence , johnny to and wai ka fai 's slick thriller brought a welcome jolt of adrenaline to the moribund hong kong action genre .
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told in flashback as danny reviews the razor eaters ' videos , we see the spiralling rampage through two perspectives ( and two formats ) as danny and the razor eaters eventually collide in a thrilling , suspenseful climax .
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full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure .
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the film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it 's propelled by the acting .
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he journeys to the mecca of bodybuilding , los angeles , on a quest to attain specific answers in the field of physiological research as it relates to anatomy and the structuring of the ultimate training regimen .
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it 's unnerving to see recoing 's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum .
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they succeed in blowing up what they believe to be the main operations room , but are soon forced to make their escape as the entire compound unexpectedly erupts with gunfire and explosions .
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there 's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 .
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does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character 's story .
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by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing .
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stands paralyzed , and she is only saved by the intervention of the experienced climber , lasse .
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three friends trace their relationships with each other and learn about themselves in the process .
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it downplays the initial assault , referring to it only in fragmented flashbacks , while offering a cogent critique of ongoing attitudes about rape and its victims , particularly in japan .
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the emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down .
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soon she finds herself in the most bizarre situations like doing `` harry & # 38 ; sally `` 's famous faked orgasm scene , judging everyone , starting fights and visiting the theatre to find out her boyfriend is `` doing `` other girls on stage .
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while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .
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me without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .
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the search takes the family to strife-torn sri lanka , where amudha comes face-to-face with reality , and reconciles herself to it .
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there 's not enough here to justify the almost two hours .
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matters become even more complicated when juwanna realizes that he is falling for his teammate michelle ( vivica a . fox ) , who shows him that there is more to women than meets the eye .
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based on the famous 1947 hoax letter written to vought aviation in which thousands of copies have since been distributed .
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a british television personality , terry twillstein ( bob odenkirk ) , gets sight of ronnie and brings ronnie to hollywood to get him his own tv show .
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the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad ' .
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kimberly corman and her friends decide to head out on a trip .
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utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film .
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an experimental documentary about a family 's loss of a child and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting .
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message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it 's neither .
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'wheatfield with crows ' takes the life of vincent van gogh and sets it in the modern day music industry .
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a dozen years later we find west is an inmate at a forbidding old prison .
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an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music .
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broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force .
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even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller 's hand often feels unsure .
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a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy .
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consequently , what begins as an enthusiastic road trip is soon plagued with mysterious roadside obstacles that threaten to prevent the boys from ever making it to the competition .
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shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .
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inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss .
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the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm .
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ver wiel has concocted one of the most elaborately twisted , diverting caper films in years .
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james clayton ( farrell ) might not have the attitude of a typical recruit , but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country - and he 's just the person that walter burke ( pacino ) wants in the agency .
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a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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to get the job done , they must all do what they have never done before # trust each other .
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its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time .
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suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done .
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at the same time , gwen who writes for the college paper , is tasked with doing a story on him , but van is too busy partying to do that .
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while accompanying an us senator on his mission in cuba , he makes a botch of so many things , that a minor blunder by the senator turns into a serious incident , which intensifies into a second cuban crisis - thanks to further entanglements by the media , police , and diplomats who represent the arch-enemies usa and cuba .
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this `` league `` comprises seafarer/inventor captain nemo ( shah ) , vampiress mina harker ( wilson ) , an invisible man named rodney skinner ( curran ) , american secret service agent tom sawyer ( west ) , the ageless and invincible dorian gray ( townsend ) , and the dangerous split personality of dr . jekyll/mr .
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the movie begins in the past where a young boy named sam attempts to save celebi from a hunter .
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after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you 'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget .
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when the day finally comes , johnny breaks from joe , which leads to only one thing - violence .
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oops , she 's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel .
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this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against .
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when young , virginal caroline ( misty mundae ) learns of her mother 's death in paris , she travels to the city of lights for the funeral .
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skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor .
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there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame .
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enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .
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ultimately , she must accept that those she loves can give her love and nothing more and that she must find her own , uncertain way .
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for carlos - who has been challenged by his mentor to rework a superficial comic strip into something with depth and substance - running the store is the last thing on his mind .
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as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up .
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but as documentary filmmaker , zeus papagianakopoulous , is about to find out , the real story took place when the cameras were n't rolling .
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traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichM-is that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .
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one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .
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but he finds an unlikely ally in sofia , beno 's sultry mistress .
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fraud feathers and fairies ( one of the stories from the 'red rock ' trilogy of stage plays ) is based on the california gold rush era in the mythical town of red rock .
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greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .
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stryker puts into motion a plan to eradicate the mutants and begins an offensive on the x-men mansion and school .
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the documentary will combine an interview with mr . mcnamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th century , archival footage , documents , and an original score by philip glass .
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he also does n't realize that he accidentally left one of his shoes there .
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it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment .
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anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
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it proves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study .
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the internment of 120 , 000 innocent people was a dark moment in the history of this country .
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then you remember where the bad dreams came from .
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ajileo journeys from his home in zapotitlan de salinas , a village in southern mexico , makes a perilious border crossing through the desert , and comes to hollywood , where everything and nothing is as he dreamed it would be .
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by contrast , tom finds her world increasingly seductive , and as fatal gradually loses the only person she trusts , she discovers destiny has other plans .
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a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic .
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as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away ' sinks .
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the last 6 weeks have been spent trying to `` get out `` of the relationship .
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one horrible night , kimberly mathews , a random girl from the nearby town , wanders too close to willy 's territory .
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in the heart of a sanitized suburban neighborhood , herbert 's everyday life is filled with constant emasculation at the hands of his wife , eleanor , and the daily grind of work on the chain .
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thurman plays a character known as the bride , a pregnant assassin who is shot by her boss , bill ( david carradine ) , on her wedding day , leaving herself and the wedding guests lying for dead .
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a wedding is arranged and cassandra is left on the sidelines as everyone around her is drawn into a maelstrom of interconnected relationships .
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beautifully written and directed and packed with excellent performances .
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thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began .
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the police have no clues nor suspects until nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus .
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as rachel and daniel race through london 's nightscape , desperate to stay one step ahead of betts , every discovery unleashes further hell , extending way beyond the disappearance of rachel 's baby .
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jim finally proposes to michelle , and both families gather for their upcoming wedding .
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the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it does n't go too much further .
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although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling 's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude .
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there 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening .
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now joined by teiresias , the former king forces his daughter back to her senses and the horrifying realization that not only is her son dead , but that agave herself was `` amongst his butchers . ``
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its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing .
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notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlights .
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dana , a college student obsessed with the internet , explores the media to an extent where chatting with a stranger , becomes a higher priority than giving attention to her loved ones .
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a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .
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it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring .
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west has now identified an electrical phenomenon # the nee # which is discharged from the brain at the moment of death . . . and which may be the 'missing link ' in his studies : if the nee is re-injected into a re-animated corpse , it should restore the 'subject ' to full 'reason ' . . .
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thoughtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun .
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a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling -- but unquestionably alive .
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shortly thereafter , kilo is involved in a drug deal with a wired frat boy that goes bad and he is imprisoned .
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