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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 .
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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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 .
... hypnotically dull .
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the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .
i 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
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sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
except it 's much , much better .
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sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .
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even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
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even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
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... the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
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... the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
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 .
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and vin diesel is the man .
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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and vin diesel is the man .
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
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rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along .
shrewd but pointless .
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rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along .
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes .
it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .
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it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes .
the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between .
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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 .
and that makes all the difference .
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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 .
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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it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .
and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .
long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
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but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure .
it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .
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but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure .
sly , sophisticated and surprising .
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may puzzle his most ardent fans .
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .
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may puzzle his most ardent fans .
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life .
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if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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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if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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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a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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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a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it 's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen .
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the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
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the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
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 .
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a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing .
angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
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a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing .
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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stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls .
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre .
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stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective .
a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing .
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the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective .
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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this u-boat does n't have a captain .
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
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this u-boat does n't have a captain .
, `` they 're out there ! ''
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i like it .
if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x.
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i like it .
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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pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
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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pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .
execrable .
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what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .
even better than the first one !
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... hypnotically dull .
... the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
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... hypnotically dull .
... a solid , well-formed satire .
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little more than a well-mounted history lesson .
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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little more than a well-mounted history lesson .
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .
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what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge .
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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what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge .
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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a modestly surprising movie .
it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .
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a modestly surprising movie .
a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
shrewd but pointless .
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a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
-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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dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
elvira fans could hardly ask for more .
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the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
utter mush ... conceited pap .
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it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush .
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush .
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
while some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work .
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the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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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one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 .
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one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
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one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .
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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spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .
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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spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
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as a film director , labute continues to improve .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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as a film director , labute continues to improve .
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
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its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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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with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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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with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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 .
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the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
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the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .
richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold .
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the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
sly , sophisticated and surprising .
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the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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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when your subject is illusion versus reality , should n't the reality seem at least passably real ?
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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when your subject is illusion versus reality , should n't the reality seem at least passably real ?
sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
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though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
it 's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones .
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though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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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it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
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it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .
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after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot .
i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it .
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after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot .
though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout .
... 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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it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout .
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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the movie is ingenious fun .
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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the movie is ingenious fun .
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
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it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .
... a solid , well-formed satire .
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it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .
make like the title and dodge this one .
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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 .
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
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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 .
execrable .
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... unlike -lrb- scorsese 's mean streets -rrb- , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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... unlike -lrb- scorsese 's mean streets -rrb- , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot .
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
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an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
black-and-white and unrealistic .
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shrewd but pointless .
a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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shrewd but pointless .
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
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