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and narrative grace
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is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .
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'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing 's happening , or the part where something 's happening
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more fun watching a documentary
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sly , sophisticated and surprising
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ratliff 's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon .
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cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon .
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feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening .
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wanderers and a bronx tale
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stench
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is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks
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that 's just too boring and obvious
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cheerfully
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i 've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we 've got something pretty damn close
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a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 .
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is almost in a class with that of wilde himself
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the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based ` drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged
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overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective
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the richness
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a silly hack-and-slash flick
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has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but )
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some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory
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never having seen the first two films in the series , i ca n't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days
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should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end
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the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and
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this time , the hype is quieter , and
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the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times
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decent draft
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the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we 're touched by the film 's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport .
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brilliantly played
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got it right the first time
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seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie .
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miyazaki 's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid
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shrieky special effects
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high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government / marine/legal mystery , and that 's because the movie serves up all of that stuff , nearly subliminally , as the old-hat province of male intrigue
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the modern rut
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are bad
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that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads
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scathingly witty
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bitchy
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so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope
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given up
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ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out
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pretention
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the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie
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a predictable outcome and
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film history
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taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit
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, uncertain film
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, emotionally honest
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mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty
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retread story
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avoids most of the pitfalls you 'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up
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be mesmerised
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dumb , narratively chaotic ,
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a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it 's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow .
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at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance .
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through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings
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sure , it 's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the film comes off winningly , even though it 's never as solid as you want it to be
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yet it 's not quite the genre-busting film it 's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe .
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high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie
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unfolds as sand 's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form
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are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock ( since sept. 11 )
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of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse
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a small gem from belgium
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a worthwhile documentary
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wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence
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on sophisticated , discerning taste
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right tone
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... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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most excruciating
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to newcastle , the first half of gangster no. 1 drips with style and , at times , blood
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the increasingly diverse french director
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boredom to the point of collapse
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this stuck pig
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combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that 's not merely about kicking undead *** , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption .
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a humorless
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provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc
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no one can hear you snore
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sucks , but
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that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem
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the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the `` other side of the story . ''
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he 's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery
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spiritless , silly and monotonous
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a superb performance
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main asset
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just two
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beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances
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a long , unfunny one
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with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations
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far the worst movie of the year
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low-budget
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powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign
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yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it 's also a failure of storytelling .
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good performances keep it from being a total rehash .
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spielberg 's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later .
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's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from `` promising '' to `` interesting '' to `` familiar '' before landing squarely on `` stupid ''
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than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe
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in ( the characters ' ) misery
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about schmidt is nicholson 's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear .
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