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the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain .
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the submarine 's crew , led by the unyielding captain alexi vostrikov , races against time to prevent a chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew , but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers .
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jenny even turns to the flower girl - who is n't much help .
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one year later , in los angeles , the surviving team members create a smart and devious plan to steal back the gold and get their revenge on the traitor .
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the pied piper production penned by christian otjen concerns a 36-year-old man ( brian wimmer ) who returns to his hometown to confront the harsh reality of his father 's supposed suicide .
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the brass are convinced this is a serial killer chosing victims at random , but sam and buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care .
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zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast .
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it 's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . .
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you see what he sees , you feel what he feels , you experience the horrible delusions and the verge of insanity as he struggles to find the thinning line between reality and the subconscious .
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part way through the filming , stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that tears his family apart .
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riveting when it focuses on the challenges of crossing a generational divide .
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the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage business in the modern day .
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windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live .
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a young boy is devastated when the planned vacation with his father is cancelled due to an emergency salvage mission at a remote canadian lake .
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a coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two `` summers `` have on the lives of several teenagers .
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what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we 've shared a great adventure .
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she is really hiding her true emotional motivation behind a mask .
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it showcases carvey 's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one 's patience to get to the good stuff .
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though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
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harry potter is in his second year of hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry .
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as the girls foil this threat and defeat an army of superpowered monkeys , the powerpuff girls learn that with great power comes great responsibility .
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the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen .
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usually when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it .
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it is then that they discover the myth of 'the bread in the bed ' - a huge bed full of money .
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no , the dangerous lives of altar boys does not exist in a state of perfect grace . however , its sins are forgivably venial , because its virtues are palpably human .
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a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichM-is and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood .
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like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again .
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his house , container of lives and memories , is closed and locked .
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the case gets more complicated , when even the police themselves appear to become suspects in the murders .
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watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode .
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strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery .
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devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .
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in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little .
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in order to preserve her art and also herself , beyond death , for all posterity , she has herself cloned .
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it 's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex .
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it 's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists .
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april 's shower is a comedy about love , romance and expectation .
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kilo is now a free man and a new father with a drug franchise covering both coasts .
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hitting the road in a brand-new suv , they 're having the time of their lives until something funny happens on the way to the monster truck show in reno .
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as laughable is his vanity fair interview , incriminating of `` the gay mafia `` for his fall , `` my dinner with ovitz `` is even funnier as it rams the actual interview headlong into coppola 's `` godfather . ``
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peter pan 's quest to return jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination .
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a literate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 .
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based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that writer 's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness .
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it 's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable .
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in this sense it is merely a travelogue , yet there is so much more , spanning from the traditional to the avant-garde , from the sublime to the ridiculous , very different , highly original and with a unique zeitgeist narrative structure .
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one day , a girl walks into his store , who looks like larry 's lost love from morocco .
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gradually we learn of joe 's past relationship with the dead woman .
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the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again .
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my little eye is the best little `` horror `` movie i 've seen in years .
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`` in that sleep of death what dreams may come . . ``
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now , along with other surviors , jill valentine , claire redfield and carlos oliviera , they must fight to survive , to escape the nightmare that has plauged raccoon city .
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the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving .
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the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage .
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when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm .
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when his father decides that it 's time for tough love , he does n't pay his tuition .
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the deeper matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the blackwoods .
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erin , who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang , reveals another side to jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical pianist .
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the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch .
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plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king .
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considering his profession could be a very dangerous occupation .
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she scorned him for not standing by her and they parted forever with a heart-broken paro entering into a chaste marriage with a wealthy , much older man , zamindar bhuvan ( vijayendra ghagte ) , while a shattered devdas walked towards anguish , alcoholism & # 38 ; chandramukhi ( madhuri dixit ) .
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if they get caught cheating again stark will make a note in their permanent records and possibly kill their chances of getting into college .
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a moving portrait of a man who has lost his place in the world .
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the guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality , making matt 's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms .
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'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '
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though frodo 's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle .
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but he strongly believed testing was needed for all actors & # 38 ; actresses in the porn industry .
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the story unveils three high school seniors who dress and live by the philosophy of `` goth , `` good friends and great rebels : digger , noisy , and dvd .
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there 's ushi , harry 's lawyer , who knows something about harry lena does n't know , eddie , a friend of harry and his new girlfriend pol , and at last , there are two policemen who are in fact unwelcome .
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though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter .
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more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades .
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his exciting and stylish life as a drug lord seems to have come to a halt .
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a smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of chicago .
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crumbling yerba city stands empty , except for its drug-parlors , where the remnants of the population cluster , drifting towards oblivion .
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nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release .
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especially one of them , holo tokyo boy , was designed to be her lover .
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on the case , he soon deducts that the killer , who staged the murder to look like a random robbery , may actually be a serial killer terry was trailing for years in the fbi .
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time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets
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aka birdseye is the saga of an obsessive colorado sheriff and his trusting teenage son , who risk it all when their twisted reconstruction of a mysterious kidnapping case escalates into a dangerous hunt for a mythical swiss criminal .
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with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge .
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a delightful fable about the enduring value of literature .
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little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable .
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the film focuses on a morally conscious assassin called quinn .
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together they flee to the city of hamburg and smuggle with them what used to be the greatest export of the vikings , an icelandic falcon .
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henrik , the young cook , is hopelessly in love with enchanting elena , but lacks the courage to dance with her .
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the second : a saturday two years later , where charlotte and cecil now a couple , fight , break-up and finally reunite .
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flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up .
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he has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos for various customers at the sav-mart .
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the worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living .
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the two men ( anthony and michael ) are successful in the high tech world of silicon valley , and have known each other since childhood .
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she 's at a dead end , married to edgar ( henry thomas ) , a petty thief who had his shot and missed long ago , but is too dense to realize it .
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not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them .
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one thing has been made very clear -- being john malkovich was n't a fluke .
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when eliza discovers that poachers in africa 's serengeti desert plan to kill an elephant herd with an electrified fence , she and her chimpanzee friend darwin must somehow find a way to stop them .
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anna strikes a deal with vikrant that he 'll kill guru and acquire the prize money offered by him .
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there are problems with this film that even 3 oscar winners ca n't overcome , but it 's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling .
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a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . .
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lightbulbs , fire , barbed wire , mousetraps , staple guns , thumbtacks and glass are weapons of choice in the backyard .
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there 's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that 's packed with just as much intelligence as action .
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out of money and out of luck ambitious sophie pressures marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother .
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