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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
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full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature .
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
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full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature .
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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there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
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the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
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the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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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it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . '
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
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it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . '
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . '
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
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the film is flat .
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man .
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the film is flat .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli\/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds .
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
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a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli\/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds .
a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
a surprisingly funny movie .
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it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern .
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hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
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where 's the movie here ?
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .
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where 's the movie here ?
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
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the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental .
... unlike -lrb- scorsese 's mean streets -rrb- , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot .
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the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental .
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears . '
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and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .
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and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
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make like the title and dodge this one .
to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there 's no indication that he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit .
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make like the title and dodge this one .
it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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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waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
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a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
these people are really going to love the piano teacher .
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sly , sophisticated and surprising .
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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sly , sophisticated and surprising .
we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor .
a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor .
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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everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
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everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .
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the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it .
-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 .
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the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it .
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state .
cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story . '
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a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state .
a surprisingly funny movie .
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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 .
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken .
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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 .
and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
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ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
if only it were , well , funnier .
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a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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you 'll know a star when you see one .
except it 's much , much better .
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you 'll know a star when you see one .
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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adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
there 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease .
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adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans .
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the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between .
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
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the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between .
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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woody allen has really found his groove these days .
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . '
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woody allen has really found his groove these days .
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .
an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn .
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contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .
elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
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i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
... hypnotically dull .
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i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
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mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear .
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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mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear .
a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
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nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off
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nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
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the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life .
all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon .
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the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life .
black-and-white and unrealistic .
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while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
a waterlogged version of ` fatal attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set ... a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads .
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while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .
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a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian .
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like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
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with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
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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with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
... hypnotically dull .
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an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
the movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing .
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an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
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originality is sorely lacking .
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
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originality is sorely lacking .
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
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but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
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if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film .
a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
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if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film .
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
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the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory .
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
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the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory .
... 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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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 .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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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 .
cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude .
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the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
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the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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disgusting .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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disgusting .
while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that 's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world .
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a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
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a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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