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A-list Brit actors
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A quaint , romanticized rendering .
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returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in Japan that gave people seizures
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incidents
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, stupid
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revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival
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the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay
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greatest adventure
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that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , Waiting for Happiness
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hooting it 's praises , but it 's definitely worth taking a look
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Feardotcom 's thrills are all cheap
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There 's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes ,
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lots of fun
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Written , flatly , by David Kendall and directed , barely , by There
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unexpected ways , touching
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The locale ... remains far more interesting than the story at hand .
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who watched the robots getting butchered in A.I.
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a slapstick comedy , that 's a pretty big problem
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in earnest dramaturgy
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Much of it is funny , but
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and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes
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by lousy direction
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An idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone .
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it 's moving
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Coupling disgracefully written dialogue
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to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become G.I. Jane
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overwhelmingly
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every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you 're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed
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Sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling .
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secondary
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is well
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blockbusters as Patriot Games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop
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Schaeffer should follow his titular advice
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an elaborate haunted house each year
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narcotics
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An intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation
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money-oriented
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thin notion
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should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure .
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, in the history of the Academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about `` Chicago '' in 2002 .
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is lacking any real emotional impact
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if not a pleasure in its own right
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worth the time
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Overwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper .
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tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic
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its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous .
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hate this one , it 's not very good either .
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with a teeth-clenching gusto
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I liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive .
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is a simple retread of the 1979 Alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship
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Davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as Amy .
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An inventive , absorbing movie that 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist
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, this is a refreshingly novel ride .
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a half-hearted fluke
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Without ever becoming didactic , director Carlos Carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality .
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which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them
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A time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater
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Heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on Petter N忙ss ' delicate , clever direction ... and a wonderful , imaginative script by Axel Hellstenius .
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LaBute ca n't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : He 's changed the male academic from a lower-class Brit to an American , a choice that upsets the novel 's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film
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most pitiful
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seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else
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sink it
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cinema at its finest
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giant Chuck Jones
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all-American
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in this performance
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's looking for
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impressive control , both visually and in the writing
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That Heaven Allows
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benefits greatly
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might not have been such a bad day after all
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Notorious C.H.O. hits all the verbal marks it should .
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are an actor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage
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It ai n't art , by a long shot ,
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of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways
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deeply felt and masterfully
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While you have to admit it 's semi-amusing to watch Robert DeNiro belt out `` When you 're a Jet , you 're a Jet all the way , '' it 's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` Tonight . ''
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seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities .
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hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something
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good sense
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Got a David Lynch jones ? Then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up Twin Peaks action ...
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If you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with The Salton Sea .
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demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested
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well-detailed
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The film 's greatest asset is how much it 's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture .
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this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-TV spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind
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` zany ' does n't necessarily mean ` funny
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ayatollah
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Said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition
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is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work
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Does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago
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It 's secondary to American Psycho but still has claws enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours .
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's a cool event for the whole family . Maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again .
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The performances are so leaden , Michael Rymer 's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud
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a young Robert DeNiro
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, we also need movies like Tim McCann 's Revolution No . 9 .
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Lifetime movie
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stuck with for two hours
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the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius
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Achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium
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