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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea .
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea .
... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over .
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yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
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yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience .
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie .
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary .
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the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
a modestly surprising movie .
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` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie .
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this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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incoherence reigns .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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incoherence reigns .
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
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-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
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-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .
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talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .
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talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
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adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild .
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild .
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
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it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
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it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
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the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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... a solid , well-formed satire .
and that makes all the difference .
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... a solid , well-formed satire .
when your subject is illusion versus reality , should n't the reality seem at least passably real ?
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... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over .
happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
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... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over .
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .
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a marvel of production design .
i like it .
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a marvel of production design .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't .
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
originality is sorely lacking .
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
delightfully rendered
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anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good .
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anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
whether or not you 're enlightened by any of derrida 's lectures on `` the other '' and `` the self , '' derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow .
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adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation .
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adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes .
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a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors ' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .
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wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor .
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what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
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nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .
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nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
never inspires more than an interested detachment .
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delightfully rendered
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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delightfully rendered
we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead .
elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
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one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead .
there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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it 's never dull and always looks good .
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
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it 's never dull and always looks good .
where 's the movie here ?
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turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .
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turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken .
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gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
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gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
these people are really going to love the piano teacher .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
and vin diesel is the man .
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dreary tale of middle-class angst
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man .
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dreary tale of middle-class angst
a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together .
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despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore .
but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls .
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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .
although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .
the film is flat .
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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
little more than a well-mounted history lesson .
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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best .
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
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as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
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as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
but there 's plenty to offend everyone ...
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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 .
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
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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 .
disgusting .
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` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative .
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a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .
yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .
what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .
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angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
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angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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with an unusual protagonist -lrb- a kilt-wearing jackson -rrb- and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .
a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
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with an unusual protagonist -lrb- a kilt-wearing jackson -rrb- and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .
a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures .
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