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even with its $ 50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture .
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adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
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a genuine mind-bender .
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just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain .
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that frenetic spectacle -lrb- on the tv show -rrb- has usually been leavened by a charm that 's conspicuously missing from the girls ' big-screen blowout .
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nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy .
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she 's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness .
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qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating .
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this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos .
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what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is !
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too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good .
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as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
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a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more .
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on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny .
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a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem .
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it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made -lrb- eyre 's -rrb- first film something of a sleeper success .
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personally , i 'd rather watch them on the animal planet .
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as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world .
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an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere .
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the art demands live viewing .
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paul cox needed to show it .
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astonishing ... -lrb- frames -rrb- profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment .
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although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters .
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a stirring road movie .
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bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
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the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .
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there 's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence .
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if you 're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you .
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city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for .
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dismally dull sci-fi comedy .
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it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids .
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executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond .
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maybe he was reading the minds of the audience .
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grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback 's heidegger - and nietzsche-referencing dialogue .
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burns ' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off .
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less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling -lrb- though no less horrifying for it -rrb- .
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it 's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil ' bow wow .
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it labours as storytelling .
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a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you .
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the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations .
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it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here .
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festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you .
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yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero .
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a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together .
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the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches .
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an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it 's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald 's , let alone some savvy street activism .
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those who are n't put off by the film 's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them .
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has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal 's overweight and out of shape .
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like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .
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a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare 's plays .
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just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience .
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... one of the more influential works of the ` korean new wave ' .
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the closest thing to the experience of space travel
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right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .
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while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
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bon appétit !
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as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth .
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boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas .
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the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .
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two hours of junk .
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this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer .
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i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 .
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-lrb- d -rrb- espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing ...
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though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should .
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alternative medicine obviously has its merits ... but ayurveda does the field no favors .
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a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange .
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it 's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe ... but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor .
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infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane .
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a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties .
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talkiness is n't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark .
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but the 2002 film does n't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate ` comedy ' scenes .
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not so much farcical as sour .
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like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .
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the material and the production itself are little more than routine .
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aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane .
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far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise .
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when it 's this rich and luscious , who cares ?
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informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms .
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a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message .
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a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids ' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder
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at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .
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skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience .
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what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride .
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unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave .
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be forewarned , if you 're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .
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it has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past .
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it strikes hardest ... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain .
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most consumers of lo mein and general tso 's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons .
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even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash .
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the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard -lrb- which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog -rrb- is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered .
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ill-considered , unholy hokum .
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it 's just merely very bad .
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a flick about our infantilized culture that is n't entirely infantile .
| 1 |
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rymer does n't trust laughs -- and does n't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects .
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trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible .
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the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard .
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this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen .
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this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach ` ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines .
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boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect .
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