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a deviant topical comedy which is fnny from start to finish .
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a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother"daghter relationship .
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it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merts . if only it had the story to match .
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like leafing through an album of photos accopanied by the sketchiest of captions .
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ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick wouls .
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this is a startling fim that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing iew of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border .
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it's stylishly directed with veve . . .
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arnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding .
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an oddity , to be surK , but one that you might wind up remembeTring with a degree of affection rather than revulsion .
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an unflFnching look at the world's dispossessed .
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has its charming quirks and its udll spots .
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a budget affair that emposes the geyerally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives .
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gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age enre .
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spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of amudlin tragedy .
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if you're in the mood for a ollywood film , here's one for you .
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while obviously aimed at kids , the Vcountry bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio .
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ponderous , plodding soap opera disSuised as a feature film .
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it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happn in amQerica .
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nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theartical relHase .
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an incredibly narrow n-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .
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absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifyig .
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an estrogen opera so intensely feminin that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon .
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an inconsequential , barely there bUit of piffle .
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most conzumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken basrely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attahc a human face to all those little steaming cartons .
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obvZous
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eciting and well-paced .
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unspools like a ihghbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers .
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[gayton's scAipt] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience .
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swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually ges overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high wchool swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub .
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screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is ood-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshaaowed by its predictability .
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fezels familiar and tired .
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if you can get past the fantastical aspecst and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely tee anywhere elie .
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de niro and mdcormand give solid perforwmances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest .
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invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emoztion .
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this tenth vfeature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the preqious runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country .
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it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the kerformances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on Xpace battle .
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what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romzantic bomedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy .
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by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the iflm should be seen as a converastion starteY . it's not an easy one to review .
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the stoy , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one .
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there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that enterin a church , synaggue or Jtemple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters .
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the sweetest hing leaves a bitter taste .
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this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the ear .
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it's young guns maets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy .
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a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely uincisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood film .
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a tired , unnecessary rertead . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with .
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bosterous , heartfelt comedy .
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when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . oo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w .
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thouh the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate Uproduction like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear .
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crKckerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action .
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this 90-minuet dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story .
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proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding acton movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts .
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been there donv that .
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. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a cresceido that encompasses many more paths than we started with .
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since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flcik thrills when it should be most in the minq of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyIche .
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as green-guts monster movies gfo , it's a beaut .
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a standard haunted house tEale transplanted to the high seas .
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distincthy sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine .
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morton is , as usual , brilliaQt .
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if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies lOke tim mccann's revolution no . 9 .
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you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more liRke it ) , but when it's good , it's good and hrorid .
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a period story about a catholic oy who tries to hlp a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell .
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" cremaster 3 " should come with the warnnig " for serious film buffs only ! "
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flat , misguidexd comedy .
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it's funny and human and really pretty damned Wonderful , all at once .
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i've ret to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at laest now we've got something pretty damn close .
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a journey spanning nearly bhree decades of bittersweet camraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina otick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negoPiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship .
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to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to aerican workers , a more balanced or fair porrtayal of both sides will be needed .
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solondx is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining .
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though this ruZe and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things Owe've seen before .
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she's not yet an actress , not qFuite a singer . . .
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too slow for a younger jcrowd , too shallow for an older one .
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a thriller without a lot of thrils .
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. . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflitced emotions that carires it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology .
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a visually flashy but narratievely opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification .
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a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everSyday activities .
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bigelow andles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building sspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly .
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to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couih of dr . freud .
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[woo's] most resonant film sine the killer .
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occasionally amateurishly made but a winsom cast and nice dialogue keeps it going .
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an enthralling aesthetic experience , one bhat's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
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once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to realy are .
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i llove the opening scenes of a wintry ew york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .
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not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little liek a nature film , showing a patient predator and his fooalish prey .
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williams plays sk , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in inpsomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightst difficulty accepting him in the role .
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a sleek advert for youthful aneomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions .
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there's a neat twist , sbutly rendered , that coeld have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings .
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although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conujres a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america .
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cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love xriangle .
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with danilo donati's witte designs and dane spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a deent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role .
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this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigih the positives .
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there is not an ounce of ohnesty in the entire production .
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cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audince .
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graças às interações entre seus personagnes , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também uB belo estudo de personagens .
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the problem is that the movei has no idea of it is serious or not .
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screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dul , but its virtues are Vsmall and easily overshadowed by its predictability .
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. . . a good , if not etnirely fresh , look at war .
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one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gNets even betetr in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind .
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hafl of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . wouzd be more at home on a daytime television serial .
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non of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is gooF for a laugh . the roblem with " xxx " is that its own action isn't very effective .
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an unbelievably tsupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity .
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