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have been perfect for an old '' twilight zone '' episode

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soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence .

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are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty .

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one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing
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