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Brimming with energy and spirit.
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If it's not as emotionally haunting as Au Hasard Balthazar or Mouchette, it remains a powerful, compelling portrait of discipline, and humanity.
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It does finally achieve its apparent aim: to tempt Miscavige's minions a little further towards the light, the better for us to witness their words and deeds, and thereby grasp the peculiarity of this particular credo.
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The film is tonally assured enough to render a literal reading somewhat unnecessary since it so purely channels the joy that drives its main character.
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The proverbial sun has set with enough grace to make us all feel a little apologetic for the doubt we all had on the character who was a champ well before he was ever a champion.
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If Trainwreck frosts its cake with a you-have-to-laugh-or-you-would-be-crying-all-the-time icing, you can still taste that sadness in nearly every bite.
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Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception.
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Resident Evil Vendetta takes the best aspects of the video game high points and makes an amazingly intense and action-packed thrill ride.
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A star is born, albeit at the ripe age of 44, as the writer, director, producer and actress Radha Blank seizes her moment, often hilariously so, as the deadpan centre of this whip-smart comedy.
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Anderson may yet be the heir to the screwball-comedy throne, but his creative blood needs a fresh infusion.
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The sort of quirky, insiderish L.A. dramedy that tries but fails to make us care about its troubled young characters who are, you guessed it, looking for happiness.
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If the 3D is passable and there are some moments of tension, Sanctum has big problems.
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Fans of cinematic dread should seek it out immediately.
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Set to the operatic background score of an Old Spice commercial, all the emotional manipulation gets in the way of inspiration.
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By messing with the geography of the apartment and the identities of its characters, The Father makes us see and digest and experience the frighteningly unsystematic loss of mental control.
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The contrast between their menacingly macho appearance (due to their muscles and military gear) and their tenderness is endlessly endearing, and the film leans into this for our greatest delight.
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Cheesy special effects, under drawn characters, simplistic writing (by a committee of scribes) and music video direction will likely draw the attention-deficit crowd
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Even if the film itself is relatively conventional, its exposure of a squalid city's most benighted neighborhood and its introduction of hope into nearly hopeless lives give it strong human interest value.
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Proof is a stirring motion picture that challenges our views on a great many things about life, some of which we take for granted.
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Aside from a few mild swipes at the commercial film industry and New York pseudo-intellectual circles, the film is rather toothless.
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The movie offers nothing new to the zom-com sub-subgenre, but has just enough solid laughs to warrant a watch.
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Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks.
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Bull Durham, the new baseball movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight.
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Stewart captures the essence of being in an oppressive environment.
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Smarter than Tarantino, cleverer than Carnahan -- literary minded and violent and wickedly funny.
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One of the best thrillers to come along in a while.
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Like Bellocchio's draggy, overrated Vincere, this movie wants us to believe in its depth, while mostly just skimming the surface.
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Emotional, occasionally funny, and narratively unpredictable... I doubt any other blockbuster will manage to surpass Black Panther this year. [Full review in Spanish]
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The movie offers a terrific playground for Mendes and Hawke to mess around in as these gleefully flawed, cartoonish and yet ultimately dimensional characters.
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Turning his camera on works of art and the people who steer the distinguished London complex, the grand old man of hands-off documentaries studies paintings and bears witness to staff meetings, curatorial discussions and gallery talks.
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The intention of both the writer, Shaun Grants, and director, Justin Kurzel, was to shed a light on the whys and wherefores of a person like Nitram. I don’t think they did.
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Almost completely uninvolving, as well as being impenetrable.
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An intriguing premise and bizarre opening show potential, but the film chooses the least interesting direction possible when it veers off on its road trip.
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Wow, this movie is totally insane.
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Lovely, well-acted with great set pieces, but edited into something choppy and less satisfying than one would hope
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Even if it answers questions about Cruella de Vil that nobody ever really had, this runway is all slay, all day. This is the glam slam villain jam we didn't know we needed.
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Douglas is a maddeningly inconsistent stand-up special...
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Truly, Sparks' Caucasian dreariness is a a force from which nothing, not even passably interesting directorial techniques can escape. A white hole, if you will.
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you'll be wishing they'd just call it quits
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Pictorially and musically, the film is distinguished, and if the atmospheric continuity tends at one stage to become wearisome, the humor and philosophy of [the characters] amply compensate.
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Brunker and his co-writers find a way to deliver a multi-layered story that can grab toddlers while keeping older viewers entertained and not groaning at some propagandized messaging.
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Blake Edwards' outrageous S.O.B. may never be held in the same regard as Sunset Boulevard or The Player, but as a searing satire about the underbelly of the Hollywood lifestyle, it still ranks as one of the best.
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A magnificently detailed portrait of Boston body politic with Mayor Marty Walsh as leading man.
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An old-fashioned, white-knuckle adventure with the excellent Bridges adding another great characterization to his increasingly impressive resume.
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Perhaps this film does adhere admirably to the source material, but if so, it is at the expense of almost anything recognizable from the classic film. This is Fletch, without the edge.
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Kingsman is a frenetic, witty blast, and just the kind of fresh take an increasingly overly serious, borderline stale genre needs.
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We've seen and heard variations on these characters several times before. Somehow, though, it seems to work.
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A botched supernatural thriller with only some fiendishly clever death schemes to commend it.
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Steep is a visually exhilarating sports documentary that is also more than a little exasperating.
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Frankly, it could have used a touch more disrepute.
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It's hilarious, though probably not to anyone who hasn't already been watching it on television.
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As far as purely aesthetic experiences go, I doubt anything I'll see anywhere this year will beat Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye To Language.
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The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine.
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When Woody's writing is solid, his direction is always at its strongest and steadiest, and Melinda and Melinda is sound indeed.
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I am a fan of The Muppets and I'm glad to see them making a comeback. Maybe if this movie is a hit, they'll make a sequel where they'll actually get to be the stars of their own film.
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...another soulful story about adolescents careering messily into first loves.
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Director Tony Scott is smart enough to focus most of the movie where it should be, on Travolta and Washington.
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None of Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmares are a patch on this.
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Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.
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Its only aim is to make us jump, make us laugh, and send us off with a thrilling final shot that's everything a "Cloverfield" fan could want from a prequel.
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A touching ode to the rewards and challenges of female friendship...
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The special effects are jaw-dropping.
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There's nothing wrong with a little predictability and a comfortable presentation when it's a sweet and moving movie like 'Palmer.'
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What Catwoman: Hunted lacks in plot, it makes up for with chase/fight scenes.
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What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to bore you.
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Most certainly, it will make you root for the Roughriders on and off the court.
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...runs on circle-of-life blather and Casio-keyboard songs by Phil Collins. To call it bland would be an insult to Barry Manilow.
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18 to Party is a thoroughly lackluster endeavor. Roda's awful screenplay deflates any value from this derivative half-baked homage.
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...an exceedingly deliberate and predominantly uninvolving endeavor...
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She is woman, but the Helen Reddy biopic doesn't roar.
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A movie that could have been a fun summer escape winds up with a 150-minute identity crisis.
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Sturges veteran Demarest is at his peak here, as is Bracken, whose desperation is hysterical.
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It’s on the lower end of Russell’s filmography in terms of memorability, but is handled with such a light, circusy touch that it’s not a bad way to kill a few hours.
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After a decade or so of suppressing his more lurid instincts, Oliver Stone is back in the bat-crap-crazy mode that made his Oscar-winning rap-sheet rep.
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Keira Knightley as Anna is supremely brilliant.
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A little goes a long way, and despite the presence of the sleepily charismatic del Toro-his beleaguered Alejandro carries heavy baggage both in his heart and beneath his eyes-the Soldado man show does grow tiresome.
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project reminds us that there is no such thing as objectivity when reporting on human behavior, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably working for Fox News.
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Occasionally pleasurable, but not entirely memorable.
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A damning indictment of the White House which concludes that 9/11 was less a failure of intelligence than a willful failure to act.
positive
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An artfully crafted film with subtle elegance, a moonshine drenched aesthetic and a set of performances that lift it well beyond many other Prohibition stories.
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The film, at its best, is gross and silly and amiably unsettling, which may be all that counts.
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It feels like the middle of a trilogy, but it achieves its goal of creating uncertainty for what's to come.
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From a director who's had a devil of a time lately comes a "Twilight Zone"-ish horror movie.
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If you're comfortable(or unaware) about the ambiguous origins of Drishyam, buy half a ticket to watch the second half. Or perhaps ask your friend's friend to watch it and interpret the plot to you.
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An overqualified adult cast and some fun moments can't entirely compensate for a defanged protagonist and too-static plot. This fantasy desperately needed a little more magic.
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Parnassus is fun to watch a good deal of the time, and Gilliam is almost always visually surprising, but Ledger could have used a more momentous send-off.
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As ludicrous and as unfocused as it all might be, Kong: Skull Island kept me amused for practically every second of its two-hour running time.
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For all its fluffiness, Cute Girl sows the seeds of Hou's style, gesturing towards the realism and thematic richness of his later work.
positive
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If Mars Needs Moms had not have been produced using the mo-cap process -- which still hasn't fixed the problem where some folk have a spooky, neither-alive-nor-dead look -- it might have stood more chance of finding an audience.
negative
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a passable entertainment for kids that is hobbled badly by a formulaic plot and talking animals that, for the most part, don't have anything interesting to say
negative
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The NFL gets a "special thanks" in the end credits. Maybe it should have been the other way around.
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Too much game, not enough heart.
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The transformation of a fear-based man by a Zorba-the-Greek-like woman with a zest for life, enthusiasm, and creative daring.
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Tomorrow Never Dies brings non-stop action and thrills in a fun installment of the James Bond franchise.
positive
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A somewhat charmless affair which, while striking to look at, fails to come to dramatic life.
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...a serenely crazed view of the present. The master is back.
positive
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This movie, if it is as successful as it deserves to be, might just open slapstick-happy moviemakers' eyes to the idea that kids will flock to a story that explores dark issues.
positive
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A pleasant enough diversion, The Hero ... nevertheless sinks into a mire of clichs from which it never quite escapes.
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With a plot as unfocused as its freshly graduated characters, the shaggy "Pitch Perfect 3" gets by on karaoke logic: What makes for a good time isn't the song you sing, but the company you keep.
positive
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The year's smartest and spikiest date-movie so far.
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