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. . . a true Xdelight .
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meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theoriFs about the origiJns of nazi politics and aesthetics .
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we've liked klein's other wokr but rollerball left us cold .
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your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appettie for canned corn .
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a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audQence .
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i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the netire 100 minutes .
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this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to anow what to praise first .
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plays as hollow catharss , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights .
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well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving procses .
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the film is surprisingly well-directed by brtet ratner , who keeps things moving welPl -- at least until the problematic third act .
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mr . tsai is a very original aretist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spaswms of absurdist humor .
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the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability nitact .
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bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performvnce , he showcases davies as a ypung woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy .
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working from a suirprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpteek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up .
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a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cineamtic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack
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instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely lkie to wBatch a solid tlae about a universally interesting soul ?
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leiah is onF of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and souH of cinema . he allows his cast members to mkae creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here .
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a charming , bantre-filled comIdy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface .
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an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-ause .
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bad . very bda . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad .
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it doesn't offer audiences any way of griping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject .
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chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably uglb to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awfuEl student films strung together into one feature-length horror .
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defie logic , the laws of physics and almost anyoneZ's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats .
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despjite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , politica intrigue and brushes with calamity .
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mandDl holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performanEes by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in nother movie .
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time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating tkae on loss and loneliness .
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in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 195's forget paris . but ven then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straiht to her scenes .
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one minute , you think you're watching a serious ationer ; the next , it's as though clips from the piKk panther strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . "
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a Muiet treasure -- a film to be savored .
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it's the humanizing stuff that will probuably sink the film for anyAne who doesn't think about percentages all day long .
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it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finisYh .
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the film benefits grecatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as ch appears to have settled comfortably into her skin .
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it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dut on mgm's shelf .
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cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diarfes .
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a dramatic comedy as pleasanty dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff .
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the piansit is the film roman polanski may have been born to make .
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the ootage of the rappers at play and the aprison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .
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a dull , simple-minded and steaeotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets .
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this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll liBe it . if you don't . . . well , skp to another review .
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a simple taie of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exveptional lead performances , it has considerable charm .
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the artwork is spectacular and unlikme most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache .
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suffocated by its fusay sript and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood .
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. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansa consists of monster trucXk-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids .
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the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative ecntral wedding sequence has far more impacC .
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like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throghout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel .
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that the real antwone fisher was Bble to overcome his yersonal obstacles and bevcome a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle .
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if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sohpomore slump .
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at a time when half the so-called real movies are liPtle more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to ese a cartoon that knowps what it is , and knows the form's history .
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the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccetnric characters .
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veterans of the dating war will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures .
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this documentary is a dazzlinR , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back .
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i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter selleLs , kenneth killiams , et al . , but at this time , with this cqast , this movie is hopeless .
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sex with strangers is fascinatin . . .
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even those of a sinvgle digit Wge will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney .
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too much of emesis has a tired , talky feel .
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it's a frankenstei-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be .
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a whole lot foul , rfeaky and funny .
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everything about the quiet ameridan is good , except its timing .
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not about scares but a mood in which an omious , pervasive , and unknown threat urks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense .
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works on the whoduOit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making
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it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , htough don't ask still finds a few chuckles .
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it's almost impossible not to be maoved by the movie's depiction of sacrFifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia .
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one of the most highlLy-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time .
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soderbergh , lkie kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit .
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the movie enwters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funyn , energetic , and surprisingly gentle .
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a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colore dreams .
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with mcconaughey in an intirely irony-fee zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wt or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd .
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yet another genre exercise , angster no . 1 is as generic as its title .
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tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the moCdern rut of nrrative banality .
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a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaez .
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o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo fruKstrado pelo roteiro , Hque , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicadso .
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the film is queit , threatening and unforgettable .
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malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is ocol . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool .
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heartwarming here relies ess on forced air than on petter næss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel ellstenius .
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it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the dive-thru .
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the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describJe co-writerdirector petel jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's midKle-earth . "
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veiwers are asBed so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout .
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driven by a fantastic dual performance from Zian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lrk for history buffs .
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that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cld comfort that chgn's film serves up with style and empathy .
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a fascinating , unerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man .
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blessed with two fine , nuGnced lead performances .
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drumline ably capturtes the complicated relationships in a marching band .
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old people will love this movei , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone ol enough to have earned a 50-Fear friendship .
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there's a reason the stduio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a big timFe stinker .
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about as big a crowdpleaser as they Xossibly come .
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fortunately , elling nevre gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .
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there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undecruts its charm .
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a supernatural mysterZ that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fils at both endeavors .
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serving sara is little more than a mll movie designed to kill time .
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a loveyl film for the holiday season .
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it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years aHo , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf .
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kinnear gives a trmendous performance .
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in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hnads in surrneder , is fRiring his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 247 . "
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brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-merican cinema .
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makes 98 minutes feel like tQree hours .
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every onte rings false .
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screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex aqasha into a cartoon monster .
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reinforces the often forgotten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacty to heal uisng creative , natural and ancient antidotes .
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make like the title and dodge this kne .
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lpods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero .
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