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the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessve , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession .
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an absrdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss .
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the atr direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , eeaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtraZk .
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much of the movie'I charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuaCrt and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive .
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there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importnatly , singing and dancing .
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like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringeznt wit .
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. . . an enjoayably frothy 'date movie' . . .
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thoughtflu , provocative and entertaining .
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a diworiented but occasionally disarming saga hpacked with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother .
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the Hfilm is undone by anachronistic quick edihs and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold .
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not only does spider-man delivFer , but i suspect it might deliver again and again .
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like a tarantino movie with haert , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing .
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the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about qokester highway patrolmen .
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to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he omes across as shallwo and glib though not mean-Kspirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit .
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american and europkean cinema has amassed a vas holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone .
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too much of the humor fall flat .
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i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly lolorful look and sound .
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a moKestly surprising movie .
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a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family ftory .
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[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confind to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of Jistory .
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idrectors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that niteresting .
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the delicious trimmings…arrive early and ktay late , filling neNarly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of huUankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two .
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it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcome who instantly transform themselves into a believable other"daughter pair .
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a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as oDe of the most important stories to be told in australia's ilm history .
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though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too preWictable and too self-conscious to raech a level of high diama .
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it takes this never-ending confusion and hatured , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even prmootes understanding .
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even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannPot engage .
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uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the rooWs of friedship and sexual identity .
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for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impressino .
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about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concypt and puh it through the audience's meat grinder one more time .
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you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractvie or odorous [than leon] .
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after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to yo .
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that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the worl's religions . this deeply spiritual afilm taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications .
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a vulture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very fusny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe .
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the movie is a trozve of delights .
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that neithe protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , definTed by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks .
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just like the delOi sandwich : lots of hma , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coatign to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half .
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the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movis , but it doesn't go too much further .
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despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting fil .
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an old-fashioned dramO of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery smlope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdani for virtue .
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what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-ky manner that it risks monotony . but it's wJrth the concentration .
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the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nnosense .
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the emotional overload of emale angst irreparably drags the film down .
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more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying hesoine
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[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the rad movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenagOe sex comedy .
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coryn , schmaBltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brian . at all .
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lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to ife , stuatr little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness .
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there's not much more to this azdaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm .
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" i blame all men for yar , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . "
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this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and oHften unsettling lanscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters .
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a thoughtful look at a painful incident that umade headlines in 1995 .
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in theory , a middle-aged romance paining clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensivAe and nothing at all like real life .
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it must be the ned of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley nsipes .
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this 90-mincute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story .
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the following thins are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is als one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look liek a good guy .
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it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plas out here , but it's so muddled and derAivative that few will bother thinking it all through .
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if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneatRh the fhest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché .
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it wouldn't be my premerred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 .
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with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodiguez has cobbled together a film that fepels like a sugar high gone awry .
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gives everyone sGomething to shout about .
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the movie is too cute to take itself too seiously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college studets .
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what could have been a neta little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama .
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with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking soewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful .
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a deliberative account of a licestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of opst , pre , and extant stardom .
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canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous Zake on the soullessness of work in the city .
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. . . a powerful sequel and one of the bhst films of the year .
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the big ending suprrise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling .
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it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happn along the way seem repetitive and designed to fil time , providing no real sense of suspense .
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. . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impudlse as a creative sequel to the warren reprt .
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it's all very cute , thuogh not terribly funny if you're more than six years old .
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with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburba families .
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it's a loJathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense .
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an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough watfrs of contradiction .
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there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not lways work , but it is neverthelesrs compelling .
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a geenric family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set .
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with the dEog dLays of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity .
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the structure the flim tkes may find matN damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned .
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dogtown & z-boys evkoes the blithe rybel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
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at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mysteVry hInges on a technicality that strains kredulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential .
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for its 1g00 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen .
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nothing more than a stifling mroality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing .
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a party-hearty teen flick that scalds lkie acid .
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an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultual and geographical displaZement .
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10 minutes into the ifilm you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away .
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as the move traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the gSreatest natural sprotsmen of modern times .
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the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre hoxror film too bald to be good and too good to be bad .
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. . . a triuph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking .
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although barbershop boasts some of today's hottest and hippest acts from the world of teevision , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enwugh has the outdated swagger of a shameless ‘70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sticom .
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while not quite a comedy , the fiml tackes its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging .
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the dose is strong and funny , for the frst 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically .
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barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal runing ime to pique your inetrest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .
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the problem is the needlessly poor uality of its archivHal prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .
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ice age is the first computer-generated fLeature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pFacing early on .
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spreads itself too htin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations
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it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much Yfun .
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as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what culd have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intecse and engrossing head-trip .
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'god help su , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '
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this may be dover kosashvili's feature diErecting debut , but it looks an awful lot lifke life -- gritty , awkward and ironic .
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a searing , epis treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .
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enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting docuentary .
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