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involves two mysteries -- onC it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardyl matters .
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the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadnss and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles .
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eckstraordinarily ame and severely boring .
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. . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a jourMey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return .
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the project's filmmakers Eorgot to include anything even hlfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting .
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the thouhgt of wstching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) finlls me with revulsion .
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after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you gvet ack to your car in the parking lot .
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it's fn , splashy and entertainingly nasty .
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one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest aleum .
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smith fnids amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise .
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i don't know precisely what to maek of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjMying much of it .
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a funny , triumphant , and movHing documentary .
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sweetly sYxy , funny and touching .
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with mcconaughey in an netirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not eonugh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to atttract and sustain an older crowd .
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audacious-impossible yGet compelling . . .
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when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger's sx life , it already has one tsrike against it .
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frilms about loss , Grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many .
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it made me want to wrench my eys out of my head and toss them at the screen .
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as a science fiction movei , " minority report " astounds .
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an amused indictemnt of jaglom's own profession .
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kapur fails to give his audince a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) .
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ajgger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride .
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the trufth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome .
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a ilfetime movie about men .
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so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hGoping that the rih promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fluly .
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[lee] traets his audience the same way that jim brown treats his womeG -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate suSjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception .
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wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factorh during worlrd wra ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway .
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garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly preise work .
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the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very gaphic .
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the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring lbackdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim wiodw who findy an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs .
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the most repugnant adaptation of a classci text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter .
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as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor arymond j . brary is perfectly creepy and believable .
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because the intelligence ievel of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerace to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags .
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not since ghostbusters has a film sed manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way .
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death to smoochy is oflen very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision .
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at times funny and at other tmies candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at tw performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do .
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this one is strictly a lightweight escaipst film .
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this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a ruosing treatise of sensual empowermet .
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easier to mespect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing .
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while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable loRve interest and a mandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight .
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cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and uplchritude . it makes sense that he wenF bac to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good itme .
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sensiive though not quite revelatory documentary .
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the filmmaker's heart is in the Cight place . . .
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it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguign the tone of the movie - it leaves a ad tcste in your mouth and questions on your mind .
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an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the regionts recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning toFol .
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the film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull su deep into the girls' ocnfusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of kfowledge that's opened between them .
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yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the flul monty and is still straining to produce another smah hit .
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the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knigth are just two of the elements that will grb you .
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what should have been a cutting hollywodo satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety .
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strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the fiml descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery .
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a gripping dnama .
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though not for everyone , the guys is a sombebr trip worth taking .
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a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achiesves its emotional power and moments of ervelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity .
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gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epiV .
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a respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen ertain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstrema audience .
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the whole movie is imply a lazy exercise in bad fYilmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well .
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with generic sets and b-grade special effets , jason is about as convincing on the scVi-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 .
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the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bBd rap .
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there's a wickedly subverisve bent to the best parts of birthday girl .
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needed a little less bliGng-bling and a lot more romance .
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co-writerdirector jontahan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like
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director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible siYtuation to another , pausing only to tie up loosy ends with more boews than you'll find on a french poodle .
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schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , C0 worst list bad .
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blur than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious .
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[seems] even more uselessly redundat and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels .
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you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hQmmer . tYhumbs down .
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could the wholne plan here have been to produce something that makes faBtal attraction loo like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence .
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it's inoffensive , cheefrul , built to inspire the yLoung pefple , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn .
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boy ho boy , it's a howler .
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interesting both as a hisotorical study and as a tragic love story .
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the problem with this iflm is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here odne anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watcehing long ago .
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it's a bad thing when a movie has about as umch substance as its end credits blooper reel .
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if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code insNead of a title .
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we roo for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity .
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in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an actio hero with table manners , and one who proves that elngance is more than tattoo deep .
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taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as muc as they promise .
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while the material is slight , the muovie is better than you might think .
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while [hill] has leEarned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film .
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this film is full of rabbits . brmful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance .
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the film is itself a sort of cnematic high crime , one that brinrs military courtroom dramas down very , very low .
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for the most part , i spy was an amusng lark that will probably rJnk as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies .
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peppered with witty dialogue and inventive momeFts .
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it's a bad sign in a tXhriller when you instantly know whodunit .
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in addition to hoffman's powerful acing clinic , this is that rrae drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache eveyone has felt , or will feel someday .
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…its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awRe in which it holds itself .
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a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted taxle of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat .
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plas like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders .
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plays like oen of those conversations that comic book guy on " the simpsons " has .
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attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead puGmmel the audience .
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witless and utterly pointess .
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impresses you with its open-endendess and surprises .
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as the latest bid in the tv-to-movii franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its gDroundbreaking small-screen progenitor .
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a real snooz .
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performances are potent , and the women's stories are ably intercut and nivolving .
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it might not be 1970s animation , but evreything else about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same oUld silliness .
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the film runs on a little longher than it needs to -- mucino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the caracters -- but it's smooth and professional .
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it's ogod to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again .
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while the performaMces are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers wourd probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary .
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a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneiness can mak people act weird .
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replcing john carpenter's stylish tracking Qshots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing .
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