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90-plus
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a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films
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precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen
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as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted
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ultimately empty examination
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's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is
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politics , power and
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is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all .
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each other against all odds
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mike white 's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make `` the good girl '' a film worth watching .
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another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke - at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting .
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the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being
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the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama
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in this tepid genre offering
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significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration
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, cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone .
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it 's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job .
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one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible
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's unlikely we 'll see a better thriller this year
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while it may not add up to the sum of its parts
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equally assured
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to arrest development in a dead-end existence
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too hard to be funny in a way that 's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span
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it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek
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( a ) strong piece of work
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accept it as life and
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is supremely unfunny and unentertaining
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you have left the theater
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the final product is a ghost
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the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and
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the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed .
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almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun
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does n't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency
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good spirits
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with flabby rolls
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an equally assured narrative coinage
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hogwash
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unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy
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good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing .
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may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done
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( gosling 's ) combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence
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how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ?
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by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material
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offers no easy , comfortable resolution
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saving
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the promise of excitement
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a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary
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what 's most offensive is n't the waste of a good cast
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the boobs are fantasti
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taylor 's cartoonish performance and the film 's ill-considered notion
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sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife
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wo n't be sitting through this one again
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to better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and i wo n't be sitting through this one again
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is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow .
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i was entranced .
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its soul
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more disciplined grade-grubbers
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hooked
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-- conrad l. hall 's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there 's something impressive and yet lacking about everything .
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that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a `` cooler '' pg-13 rating
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shoddy male hip hop fantasy
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the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers .
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masterfully calibrated
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sweet home alabama '' is what it is -- a nice , harmless date film ...
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hits all the verbal marks it should
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a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .
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examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling
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provocative film
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but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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offensive and redundant
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this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .
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an exceptionally
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coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world 's endangered reefs
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an extraordinary poignancy , and the story
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of the funniest motion
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has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots
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authentically impulsive humor
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made the full monty a smashing success ... but
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sad nonsense ,
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has a great cast and a great idea
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a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions
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was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial .
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paranoid
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when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares
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the rollicking dark humor
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coming apart at its seams
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a decomposition
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the best ensemble casts
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is reasonably entertaining ,
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knows its classical music , knows its freud and
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get the same love story and parable
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makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful
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entertainment opportunism at its most glaring
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clients
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a series of relentlessly nasty situations
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this every-joke-has - been-told-a
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excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama .
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dead gorgeous
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in the form of dazzling pop entertainment
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