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and , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater .
it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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and , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater .
a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures .
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there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
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there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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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imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern .
it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
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imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern .
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
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brave and sweetly rendered love story .
it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .
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brave and sweetly rendered love story .
i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it .
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too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries .
the whole film has this sneaky feel to it -- as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product .
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too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries .
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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flat , misguided comedy .
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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flat , misguided comedy .
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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richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold .
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
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a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
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has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
, `` they 're out there ! ''
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visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
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but the actors make this worth a peek .
the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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but the actors make this worth a peek .
a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
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and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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 thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
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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this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
the chocolate factory without charlie .
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like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .
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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like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .
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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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 . '
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
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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 . '
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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i 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
incoherence reigns .
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i 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
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plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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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plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
these people are really going to love the piano teacher .
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an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era .
though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era .
an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
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depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
execrable .
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depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
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a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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 film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun .
your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck !
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the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun .
disgusting .
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happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
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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happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
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 .
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while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends -lrb- it -rrb- stimulating depth .
a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
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while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends -lrb- it -rrb- stimulating depth .
dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
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a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .
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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i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 .
sly , sophisticated and surprising .
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i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 .
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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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 .
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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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 .
the chocolate factory without charlie .
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no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
this u-boat does n't have a captain .
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no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
as a film director , labute continues to improve .
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a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures .
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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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film .
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film .
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this .
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if you 're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you - -- decasia
a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
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if you 're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you - -- decasia
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries .
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an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
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a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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 loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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 .
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and that makes all the difference .
you 'll know a star when you see one .
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and that makes all the difference .
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this .
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if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x.
it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .
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if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x.
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
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woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
the film is flat .
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below may not mark mr. twohy 's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished .
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
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below may not mark mr. twohy 's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished .
utter mush ... conceited pap .
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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 .
the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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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 .
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 .
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though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
i 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
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though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
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but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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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but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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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fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors ' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .
a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
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fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors ' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .
... 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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your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck !
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
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your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck !
may puzzle his most ardent fans .
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an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn .
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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an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn .
as a film director , labute continues to improve .
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the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada .
shrewd but pointless .
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the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada .
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 beautiful images and solemn words can not disguise the slack complacency of -lrb- godard 's -rrb- vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice .
the film is flat .
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the beautiful images and solemn words can not disguise the slack complacency of -lrb- godard 's -rrb- vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice .
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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at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty .
you 'll end up moved .
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at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty .
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
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enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .
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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 . '
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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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 . '
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man .
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a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
you 'll probably love it .
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a portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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