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In addition to Hoffman 's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . | 0positive
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Jeffrey Tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy . | 0positive
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From the opening strains of the Average White Band 's `` Pick up the Pieces '' , you can feel the love . | 0positive
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Stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . | 0positive
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that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture | 0positive
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Meyjes ' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . | 0positive
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The movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . | 0positive
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imagine a scenario where Bergman approaches Swedish fatalism using Gary Larson 's Far Side humor | 0positive
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Too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper -LRB- and better -RRB- than Pink Floyd tickets . | 0positive
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It is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . | 0positive
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It 's not a great monster movie . | 1negative
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Others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that ` the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find Morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . | 0positive
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Miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . | 0positive
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Time Out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term . | 0positive
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It 's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . | 0positive
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Writer\/director Alexander Payne -LRB- Election -RRB- and his co-writer Jim Taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look American angst in the eye and end up laughing . | 0positive
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It 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . | 0positive
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The best animated feature to hit theaters since Beauty and the Beast 11 years ago . | 0positive
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What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera 's attention to detail . | 0positive
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Pacino is the best he 's been in years and Keener is marvelous . | 0positive
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A solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . | 0positive
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By turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . | 0positive
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... very funny , very enjoyable ... | 0positive
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Adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of Orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . | 0positive
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So purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of Hollywood comedies such as Father of the Bride . | 0positive
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Moonlight Mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . | 0positive
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It is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . | 0positive
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The real triumphs in Igby come from Philippe , who makes Oliver far more interesting than the character 's lines would suggest , and Sarandon , who could n't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable WASP matron . | 0positive
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Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side . | 0positive
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If you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of Unfaithful . | 0positive
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Australia : Land Beyond Time is an enjoyable Big Movie primarily because Australia is a weirdly beautiful place . | 0positive
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Hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being . | 0positive
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Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 0positive
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An enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 0positive
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The quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by Rachel Griffiths . | 0positive
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A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . | 0positive
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What could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman 's tragic odyssey . | 0positive
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Duvall is strong as always . | 0positive
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A no-holds-barred cinematic treat . | 0positive
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You 'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . | 0positive
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Allen 's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . | 0positive
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Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs , Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . | 0positive
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Maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . | 0positive
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It makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . | 0positive
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Too often , Son of the Bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if . '' | 1negative
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The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . | 0positive
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A terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . | 0positive
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It 's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . | 0positive
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A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . | 1negative
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As giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . | 0positive
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The film offers an intriguing what-if premise . | 0positive
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The Pianist is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make . | 0positive
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This version does justice both to Stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . | 0positive
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Poignant and delicately complex . | 0positive
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Enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . | 0positive
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Cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as I 'm the One That I Want ... but it 's still damn funny stuff . | 0positive
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In The Pianist , Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . | 0positive
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Despite the film 's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . | 0positive
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If you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . | 0positive
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This bracingly truthful antidote to Hollywood teenage movies that slather Clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . | 0positive
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It 's the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time B movies good-bad that makes Eight Legged Freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . | 0positive
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The film 's strength is n't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . | 0positive
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It has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and Mandy Moore leaves a positive impression . | 0positive
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The Saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world . | 0positive
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Despite its shortcomings , Girls Ca n't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it 's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre . | 0positive
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With Dirty Deeds , David Caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . | 0positive
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The humor and humanity of Monsoon Wedding are in perfect balance . | 0positive
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Lookin ' for sin , American-style ? | 1negative
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A compelling motion picture that illustrates an American tragedy . | 0positive
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As comedic spotlights go , Notorious C.H.O. hits all the verbal marks it should . | 0positive
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It 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . | 0positive
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Frida is n't that much different from many a Hollywood romance . | 1negative
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What sets it apart is the vision that Taymor , the avant garde director of Broadway 's The Lion King and the film Titus , brings . | 0positive
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Stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . | 0positive
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Extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . | 0positive
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The film exudes the urbane sweetness that Woody Allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . | 0positive
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K-19 : The Widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . | 0positive
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It 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | 0positive
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Cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of Denmark 's Dogma movement . | 0positive
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It 's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . | 0positive
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... begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . | 1negative
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Perhaps the best sports movie I 've ever seen . | 0positive
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Cho 's timing is priceless . | 0positive
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A sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . | 0positive
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An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 0positive
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A reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994 's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 0positive
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-LRB- Reno -RRB- delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . | 0positive
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there is truth here | 0positive
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a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002 's first great film | 0positive
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A touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . | 0positive
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Arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year | 0positive
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The casting of von Sydow ... is itself Intacto 's luckiest stroke . | 0positive
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No , it 's not as single-minded as John Carpenter 's original , but it 's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . | 0positive
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A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . | 0positive
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Stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 0positive
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... the first 2\/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices -LRB- cool visual backmasking -RRB- , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ... | 0positive
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This movie got me grinning . | 0positive
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There 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . | 0positive
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An old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher 's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . | 0positive
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What 's not to like about a movie with a ` children 's ' song that includes the line ` My stepdad 's not mean , he 's just adjusting ' ? | 0positive
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