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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea .
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea .
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza .
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yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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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yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears . '
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
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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the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
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the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . '
i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .
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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 .
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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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 .
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
woody allen has really found his groove these days .
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incoherence reigns .
plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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incoherence reigns .
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
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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-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
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talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
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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adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild .
an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn .
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adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild .
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .
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it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
it 's just rather leaden and dull .
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so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
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 .
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the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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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the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
the movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
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the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
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... a solid , well-formed satire .
a surprisingly funny movie .
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... a solid , well-formed satire .
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .
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... 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 .
a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
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... 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 .
there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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a marvel of production design .
except it 's much , much better .
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a marvel of production design .
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it .
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anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
but there 's plenty to offend everyone ...
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anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .
blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
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adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
flat , misguided comedy .
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adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
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a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
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 .
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wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .
imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern .
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what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
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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what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
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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 .
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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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 .
disgusting .
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delightfully rendered
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
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delightfully rendered
-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie .
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one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead .
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
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one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead .
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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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
disgusting .
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
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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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character .
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it 's never dull and always looks good .
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
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it 's never dull and always looks good .
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
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turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
the movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing .
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turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
originality is sorely lacking .
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gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
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gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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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dreary tale of middle-class angst
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .
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dreary tale of middle-class angst
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
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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 .
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
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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 .
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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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
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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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
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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 .
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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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 .
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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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
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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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
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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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one .
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although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 .
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although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be .
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
-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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as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
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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-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 .
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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-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 .
does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- .
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` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
dreary tale of middle-class angst
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a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .
-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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a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy .
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
the chocolate factory without charlie .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .
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 .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .
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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angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices .
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angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic .
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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 .
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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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 .
adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .
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