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now it 's just tired .
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( u ) nrelentingly stupid .
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a work of astonishing delicacy and force .
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... as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the star wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement .
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1,703
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation .
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1,704
the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low .
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1,705
the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but was n't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing .
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1,706
offers that rare combination of entertainment and education .
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1,707
one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you 're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you did n't know was being taken .
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1,708
an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection .
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1,709
if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror .
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1,710
it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism .
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1,711
going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film .
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1,712
if this dud had been made in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins .
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1,713
morton is , as usual , brilliant .
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1,714
an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives .
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1,715
christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr. feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic .
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1,716
but like bruce springsteen 's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins .
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1,717
with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path .
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1,718
more honest about alzheimer 's disease , i think , than iris .
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1,719
maybe it 's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a little more than this .
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1,720
none of these characters resembles anyone you 've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter .
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1,721
just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story .
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1,722
but some unexpected zigs and zags help .
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1,723
by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what 's possible and what we might do to make it so .
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1,724
but it 's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast .
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1,725
a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil ' bow wow .
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1,726
skip work to see it at the first opportunity .
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1,727
there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting .
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1,728
safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull 's - eye .
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1,729
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining .
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the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace .
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1,731
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to .
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1,732
these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future .
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1,733
... with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that wo n't stand the test of time .
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it might as well have been problem child iv .
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1,735
all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit .
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his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving .
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1,737
national lampoon 's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion
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( it 's ) a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy .
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1,739
an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected .
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1,740
mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness .
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1,741
liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase .
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1,742
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama .
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1,743
hands down the year 's most thought-provoking film .
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and in this regard , on guard delivers .
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1,745
thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings .
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these are lives worth watching , paths worth following .
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the 3d images only enhance the film 's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen .
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1,748
a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered .
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1,749
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy .
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but here 's the real damn : it is n't funny , either .
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1,751
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper .
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... has virtually no script at all ...
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1,753
behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart .
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1,754
roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck -- few filmmakers will .
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the movie 's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor
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1,756
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you ca n't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on .
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1,757
a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing .
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1,758
here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get .
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1,759
a tv episode inflated past its natural length .
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why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me .
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1,761
begins as a promising meditation on one of america 's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt .
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1,762
it took 19 predecessors to get this ?
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1,763
binoche and magimel are perfect in these roles .
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1,764
the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time .
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1,765
a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions .
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1,766
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance .
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feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention .
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1,768
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .
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1,769
a movie that tries to fuse the two ` woods ' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess .
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1,770
too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performances , it 's not a total loss .
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1,771
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance
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fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water .
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1,773
the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes .
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rare is the ` urban comedy ' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie .
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it 's also stupider .
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1,776
that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered .
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reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film .
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we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer .
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1,779
the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat .
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a pleasant romantic comedy .
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the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide .
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a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours ... a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle .
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full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he 's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000
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1,784
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness .
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1,785
technically , the film is about as interesting as an insurance commercial .
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1,786
well , it does go on forever .
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1,787
a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined .
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1,788
there 's no denying the elaborateness of the artist 's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity .
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` dragonfly ' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck .
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there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them .
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the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus .
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when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music .
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a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title .
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i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war ... it 's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink .
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there 's plenty of style in guillermo del toro 's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply ca n't sustain more than 90 minutes .
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1,796
the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right .
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1,797
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love .
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ihops do n't pile on this much syrup .
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