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Title: Too Slow Even for a Melodrama
Review: Birth has a thought-provoking story, beautiful setting, superb acting, an unnerving scene and a lush score. It lacks, however, fluency and vigor, both of which are essential to any satisfactory moviegoing experience. I understand it's a melodrama, but it crawled even by melodrama standards. There are way too many long pauses that don't really serve any purpose or convey anything. Nicole Kidman never looked better, in my opinion, and that alone was worth sitting through this film. I would wait till it comes out on DVD and I would only rent it!
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