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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
where 's the movie here ?
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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
as a film director , labute continues to improve .
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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 .
pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
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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 .
but the actors make this worth a peek .
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there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
when your subject is illusion versus reality , should n't the reality seem at least passably real ?
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there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
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the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
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the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
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this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
i like it .
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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 . '
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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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 . '
though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be .
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the film is flat .
execrable .
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the film is flat .
the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages .
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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 .
if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x.
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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 .
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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it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
as a film director , labute continues to improve .
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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 dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
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hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
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hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
it 's never dull and always looks good .
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where 's the movie here ?
make like the title and dodge this one .
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where 's the movie here ?
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 problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental .
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental .
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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and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
even better than the first one !
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and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .
everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
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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 .
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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waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
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a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
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a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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sly , sophisticated and surprising .
it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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sly , sophisticated and surprising .
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
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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 seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
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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 .
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
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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 .
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
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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 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 .
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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 .
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .
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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 .
i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it .
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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 dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
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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 portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
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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 .
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
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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 .
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
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ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
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ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
little more than a well-mounted history lesson .
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a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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you 'll know a star when you see one .
spielberg 's picture is smarter and subtler than -lrb- total recall and blade runner -rrb- , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences .
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you 'll know a star when you see one .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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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
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
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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 low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between .
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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the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between .
a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
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woody allen has really found his groove these days .
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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woody allen has really found his groove these days .
the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one -lrb- and no one -rrb- .
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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 .
execrable .
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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 .
a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .
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i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
a modestly surprising movie .
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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 .
there 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease .
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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 .
one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
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nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure .
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nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
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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 .
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
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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 .
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
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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 .
first-time director joão pedro rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on .
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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 .
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 .
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a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative .
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a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances .
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like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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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like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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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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 .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
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an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .
a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
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an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
and that is where ararat went astray .
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an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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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originality is sorely lacking .
ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
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originality is sorely lacking .
-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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but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
if only it were , well , funnier .
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but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .
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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 .
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
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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 .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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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 script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
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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 .
woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
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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 emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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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 .
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
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the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
may puzzle his most ardent fans .
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the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
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elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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disgusting .
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .
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disgusting .
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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a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
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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a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
where 's the movie here ?
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imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
it 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that 's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline .
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imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
where 's the movie here ?
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