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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 .
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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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 .
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 .
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a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
the movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing .
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a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
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nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
... the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
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nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
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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a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
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a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
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the chocolate factory without charlie .
pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
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the chocolate factory without charlie .
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
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problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
shrewd but pointless .
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problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
a weird little movie that 's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l.a. 's show-biz and media subcultures .
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the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
the movie is ingenious fun .
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the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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full of surprises .
with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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full of surprises .
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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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 .
chan 's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy .
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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 .
delightfully rendered
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ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
in fact , even better .
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and that is where ararat went astray .
where 's the movie here ?
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and that is where ararat went astray .
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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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 .
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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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 .
we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
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a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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 .
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
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a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .
a film of delicate interpersonal dances .
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a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .
the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory .
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likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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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likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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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 ?
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .
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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 ?
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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long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
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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long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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in fact , even better .
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
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in fact , even better .
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
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black-and-white and unrealistic .
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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black-and-white and unrealistic .
you 'll know a star when you see one .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
... hypnotically dull .
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if only it were , well , funnier .
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
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if only it were , well , funnier .
... 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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although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
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although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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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jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
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jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with .
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it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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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it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
the film is flat .
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your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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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your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .
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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the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .
with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
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a surprisingly funny movie .
if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x.
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a surprisingly funny movie .
a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state .
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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 .
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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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 .
and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .
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a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .
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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 .
an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
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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 .
brave and sweetly rendered love story .
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
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the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half
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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an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
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an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .
this u-boat does n't have a captain .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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 .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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 .
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dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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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does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- .
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- .
woody allen has really found his groove these days .
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a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken .
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 sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken .
at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty .
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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 .
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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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 .
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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hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
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a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary .
waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary .
a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .
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i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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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i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
... hypnotically dull .
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first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .
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first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
a marvel of production design .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
but the actors make this worth a peek .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
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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 .
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 .
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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 .
with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
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