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transcend genre
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that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema
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emotional and
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has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence .
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with calamity
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accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc. .
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no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt 's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance
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i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special
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little less bling-bling
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a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis
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not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one .
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punchier
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even then , i 'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes .
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there 's no reason to miss interview with the assassin
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tastelessness
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builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy
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political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country
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on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye
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first-class
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smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds .
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the storylines are woven together skilfully
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rejects
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motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover
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an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order
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whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle
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the most interesting writer/directors
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easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking
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sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously .
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oscar-worthy
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appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness
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as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary
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're gon na like this movie
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psychologically
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an engaging ,
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, hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it .
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unspeakable
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, though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie 's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized .
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courageous
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of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen
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well-meant but unoriginal
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a gleefully
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holofcener 's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and
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is n't as funny as you 'd hoped .
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the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery
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to be startled when you 're almost dozing
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may have been a good film in `` trouble every day
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nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career
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a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix 's
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draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent
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be this good
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a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing
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in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song .
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is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes
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statements and dime-store ruminations
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still could have been room for the war scenes
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is the action as gripping
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the dark theater
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are so spot on
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suffers from all the excesses of the genre
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88 minutes of exaggerated action
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a warmth that is n't faked
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e.t. is still a cinematic touchstone .
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zeal
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did not figure out a coherent game
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homogenized and a bit contrived
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of surprises
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, slow and dreary
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an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie
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magnificent jackie chan
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vaguely interesting
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the downward spiral comes to pass
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, it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma .
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strong-minded
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geniality
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's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful
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is a bowser .
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look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic .
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a moving , if uneven , success .
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to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street
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jane wyman and
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works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters
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... instead go rent `` shakes the clown '' , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance .
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a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad
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-- she 's pretty and she can act --
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's a film that 's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio 's animated classics .
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was as superficial
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trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge
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`` blue crush '' is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings
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unendurable viewing experience
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in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation
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use of his particular talents
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is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for
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both contrived and cliched
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has an infectious enthusiasm
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jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart .
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enriched
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a tragic dimension
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than sketches ... which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach
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the experience worthwhile
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as often imaginative
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